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Mike Birbiglia

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

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The Importance of Sadness in Comedy

"I think the best jokes have a sadness that underlies them. And so that you go there and then you're laughing at the thing that you're going there for," he says. "It doesn't feel our, energetically, artistically correct to force in a narrative."

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