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Arts & Culture, Comedy Jan 30, 2018
John Mulaney discusses his influences, from Mayor Richard M. Daley to Werner Herzog

The stand-up comedian has drawn inspiration from unlikely sources.
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Comedy, John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, Chicago Theatre, Oh, Hello, Broadway, The Top Part, The Comeback Kid, New in Town, Werner Herzog, Richard M. Daley, St. Ignatius, Harold Washington, Jimmy Stewart, Andy Rooney, Spalding Gray, Earthquake, Def Jam, Mike Birbiglia, Joe Mande, Dave Attell, Shatner's Raw Nerve, Jon Voight, Elizabeth Smart, Larry King, Donald Barthelme, The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace, Jacqueline Novak, Blondie, Steven Van Zandt, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Apr 28, 2017
Advice for a sexsomniac

Yes, it’s a real thing.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, sexsomniac, sleep-related abnormal sexual behaviors, rimming, Michel Cramer Bornemann, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Sleep Forensics Associates, Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia, Dr. William C. Dement, The Promise of Sleep, SM Apartments Berlin

Film, Movie Review Jul 28, 2016
Recommended Video
Don't Think Twice explores the collective challenge of improv comedy

Mike Birbiglia follows his debut feature Sleepwalk With Me with an incisive showbiz comedy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Mike Birbiglia, Don't Think Twice, Sleepwalk With Me, Saturday Night Live, Second City, Kate Micucci, Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Lorne Michaels, Seth Barrish, Del Close, improv comedy, Recommended, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 3, 2015
Recommended
Dave Maher turns his coma into stand-up comedy

A medical scare is a source for introspection and laughs in Dave Maher Coma Scare.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Dave Maher, Coma Show, Mike Birbiglia, Annoyance Theatre, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 12, 2015
Judd Apatow answers questions about asking questions

The uber director/producer and reborn stand-up talks about his three decades of interviews with comedians, compiled in the new book Sick in the Head.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Feature, Judd Apatow, Sick in the Head, Kncoked Up, 40-Year-Old Virgin, This Is 40, Henny Youngman, Howard Stern, Amy Schumer, Trainwreck, Dave Eggers, 826, Chicago Humanities Festival, Dave Attell, Mike Birbiglia, Colin Quinn, Vanessa Bayer, Chris Rock, Leslie Mann, Albert Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Alan Zweibel, Saturday Night Live, Rodney Dangerfield, Second City, Pearl Jam, Wrigley Field, iO, Garry Shandling

Arts & Culture, Comedy Critic's Choice Jun 13, 2013
Recommended
Michael Palascak's quarterback comedy

The Chicago ex-pat finds humor in the everyday.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice, Michael Palascak, Hannibal Buress, John Mulaney, club comic, Facebook, Starbucks, Mike Birbiglia, Louis C.K., Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Thu 10/25

What's on the Agenda for Thursday, October 25, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, Chicago Theater, Spoon, Britt Daniel, Logan Auditorium, Divine Fits, A Thing Called Divine Fits, Peter Margasak, Cold Cave, Just For Laughs, Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk With Me, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, Victory Gardens Theater, Lincoln Park

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2012
Don't stop the ride: Mike Birbiglia talks about Sleepwalk With Me's success and his current one-man show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend

An interview with the comedian in anticipation of his one-man show, now playing at the Victory Gardens Theater tomorrow
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Arts, Film, Comedy, Mike Birbiglia, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, Sleepwalk With Me, Ira Glass, This American Life, comedy, carnival, making out, stand-up, Scrambler, Just for Laughs, IFC

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Oct 10, 2012
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

Life, on the Line, Sleepwalk With Me, and Busting Loose From the Money Game
- By Meg Pier
- Tags: Culture Vultures, PJ Powers, TimeLine Theatre Company, Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, Life, on the Line, Emily Reusswig, Redmoon Theater, Mike Birbiglia, Aislinn Gagliardi, money

Arts & Culture, Comedy Critic's Choice Sep 12, 2012
Our three best bets for fall comedy

Pete Holmes's interactive sets, Mike Birbilgia's self-deprecating sweetness, and Kyle Kinane's stoner-dude comedy
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice, Pete Holmes, Mike Birbiglia, Just for Laughs, Kyle Kinane

Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2012
Video
Have one on Studs, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Studs' Place, Studs Terkel, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Sebastian Bane, Patrick Wang, In the Family movie, Facets Cinematheque, Compliance movie, Craig Zobel, Great World of Sound, Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish, Ira Glass, Music Box, Christiaan Zwanniken, Convento movie, The Apparition movie, Warner Bros, For a Good Time, Call movie, Lawless movie, John Hillcoat, The Proposition, The Road, Little White Lies, Guillaume Canet, Tell No One, Oslo August 31, Joachim Trier, Reprise movie, Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee, Gibson Gowland, Eric von Stroheim, Greed, Airplane!, Northbrook Public Library, Howard Hawks Scarface, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, movies, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Aug 29, 2012
Sleepwalk With Me considers romance from A to Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z

Mike Birbiglia stars as a man juggling love and a sleep disorder
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish, comedy, sleep disorder, Lauren Ambrose, Marc Maron, Kristen Schall, Wyatt Cenac, David Wain

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2012
Last night: Jeff Garlin, Hannibal Buress, and others killed it at the Beat Kitchen

A long roster of comedians, both local and celebrity-status, for only five bucks
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Arts, Laughs Week, Comedy, Just for Laughs, Laugh Week, stand-up, comedy, Jeff Garlin, Hannibal Buress, Eddie Pepitone, Kyle Kinane, Junior Stopka, James Fritz, Pete Holmes, Beat Kitchen, Chicago Underground Comedy, Mike Birbiglia, Variations on a Theme

Blogs, Bleader Jun 11, 2012
Laughs Week: chuckling through the pain

Introducing a week of dispatches from the TBS Just for Laughs comedy fest
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Arts, Laughs Week, Comedy, TBS Just for Laughs, Mike Birbiglia, Conan O'Brien, Janeanne Garofalo, Junior Spoka, Adam Burke, Sleepwalk With Me, Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, Laughs Week, Variations on a Theme

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Jun 1, 2012
What's so funny about TBS Just for Laughs?

Here are some suggestions
- By Rebecca Cohen
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, Just for Laughs, Aziz Ansari, John Oliver, Jeff Ross, Vince Vaughn, Scott Adsit, Mike Birbiglia, Jon Glaser, Kevin Dorff, Hannibal Buress

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