“In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but then after him it was people acting like Seinfeld and making observations that we felt like we'd kind of heard before, and then you're seeing Seinfeldian comedy in commercials. Suddenly everything is observational funniness.”

American comedian, actor, director, producer, and Emmy-nominated writer

Mike Birbiglia is an American comedian, actor, director, producer, and Emmy-nominated writer. He has built a career around solo performance, with six one-person shows that played worldwide and had successful runs on and off Broadway. Those shows include Sleepwalk With Me, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Thank God For Jokes, The New One, The Old Man and the Pool, and The Good Life, several of which became Netflix comedy specials. He also wrote, directed, and starred in Sleepwalk with Me and Don’t Think Twice, and has appeared in films such as Trainwreck, The Fault in Our Stars, Popstar, and A Man Called Otto, as well as on Orange Is the New Black and Billions. He hosts the podcast Mike Birbiglia's Working it Out.