{"id":66187,"date":"2015-12-03T21:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66187"},"modified":"2015-12-03T21:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T03:23:31","slug":"mike-birbiglia-will-have-a-new-1-man-show-this-winter-thank-god-for-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/03\/mike-birbiglia-will-have-a-new-1-man-show-this-winter-thank-god-for-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Birbiglia will have a new 1 man show this winter, &#8216;Thank God For Jokes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66188\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mike-Birbiglia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66188\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mike-Birbiglia.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo from Mike Birbiglia's official Twitter account)\" width=\"741\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mike-Birbiglia.jpg 741w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mike-Birbiglia-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/birbigs\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Birbiglia&#8217;s official Twitter account<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014Mike Birbiglia, a stand-up comedian and off-Broadway star, will tackle something he knows a lot about in his new one-man show\u2014joke-telling.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cMike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes,\u201d the performer tackles \u201cthe minefield that is modern-day joke-telling.\u201d It plays the Lynn Redgrave Theater in lower Manhattan beginning Feb. 2. Seth Barrish directs.<\/p>\n<p>Birbiglia&#8217;s other shows include \u201cSleepwalk with Me,\u201d about the time he sleepwalked out a second-story window. In \u201cMy Girlfriend&#8217;s Boyfriend,\u201d he tells how he was nearly killed in a car accident when a drunk driver rammed him. That play was the basis of his memoir, \u201cSleepwalk with Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birbiglia, who has multiple albums and TV specials, also has made appearances on public radio&#8217;s \u201cThis American Life\u201d and the storytelling organization the Moth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Mike Birbiglia, a stand-up comedian and off-Broadway star, will tackle something he knows a lot about in his new &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-66187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-mark-kennedy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}