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As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.

~Mike Birbiglia

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I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really hard to get stuff on that show.

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I am intimidating no one in America. No one feels like they are below me in any way. They feel like they are absolutely either at or above my level and 100-percent comfortable talking to me.

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Sometimes my fans are too nice.

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I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.' I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

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I always live tweet 'SNL.'

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Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.

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Essentially, retweets are like laughs.

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I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.

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I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: June 20th, 1978

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