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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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The Importance of Being a Resident Company Member

I had worked at the second city for a few years in the touring company and they weren't using me to understudy because it's a rep system there we're basically you tour you learn tons of material over the last now would be 60 years. I just thought I guess they're never gonna use me yeah so I went into Joyce Sloan the Maven who is the Doyene of Second City and said hey I've had a great time but sometimes people stay here too long and they get bitter, she says. "Don't threaten me oh my gosh I don't respond well to threats" So I left and I called up holiday who was a old friend of mine we'd actually

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