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57. Stephen Colbert: Laughter As An Act Of Love

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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"I had a nervous breakdown the tension between those things was more than my brain could handle," he says. "It started the moment I woke up and didn't end until I went to bed at night." He recalls walking in circles around his wife's couch for eight hours as she came home from work. The first time he got into trouble it was when he said no to Steppenwolf because they weren't sure if they'd be able to pay him, which would have been like an honorarium by the end of the run.

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