Transcript
Mike Birbiglia (0:00)
The descriptor of your new show reads, Nish Kumar is 40. His mind is breaking. His body is worse, which I love as a description. What is breaking your body and what is healing you?
Nish Kumar (0:10)
If anything, I would say so. Like, my body is sort of showing the signs of the slowdown.
Mike Birbiglia (0:22)
Yeah, yeah.
Nish Kumar (0:22)
The big slowdown. It's the first yawn before the big sleeve feel. You could feel everything. Like it's just the thing of that noise. That noise has started to happen without me wanting it.
Mike Birbiglia (0:37)
The overall feeling of.
Nish Kumar (0:38)
The overall feeling of people having to look at my butt more than they did before. Why is that just Barry's butt?
Mike Birbiglia (0:51)
That is the voice of the great Nish Kumar. Nishi Nish is back. One of my favorite guests we've had through the years and we work out a lot of jokes today. Like a lot of our repeat guests, we really get in the weeds on jokes. I was thrilled to have him. If you don't know Nish, he is a brilliant comic from the uk. He's got a new special out called Don't Kill My Vibe. Nish is a super nice guy. He's very angry about a lot of things, but very funny about it. Talk about that today. We work out a lot of jokes. By the way, we have a new episode of me working out listeners jokes over on Working it out premium on Apple Podcasts. We just dropped it. Pete Holmes and I work out your jokes that you sent to working it out podmail.com if you go over to the Apple podcast app, you can subscribe. It's 4.99amonth. You get no ads for any of the episodes. You support the show, which we appreciate. It's an independent production. And you get these fun bonus episodes which are really honestly the inside of the inside of the inside of what I do every, you know, every day. By the way, you're probably listening to this, but you can also subscribe on YouTube and watch this episode. You get the full video this episode and you get all of our episodes starting at episode 100. That's when we started doing video and we appreciate it if you subscribe. We post more and more videos, so don't miss that. By the way, I'll be at the Netflix is a Joke Festival this Wednesday. This Wednesday, May 6, at the Wilshire E. Ball. There are only a few tickets left, so get on that if you're nearby. It's going to be me and several friends, all of whom have been on the podcast before, headliners in their own right. And I'm going to be doing probably a half hour new material at least. Actually, I'm really excited about that show. Also, if you are in Canada, I will be in Montreal this summer hosting a gala at the Just for Laughs Festival July 24. And if you're in Nantucket or anywhere near Cape Cod, really, you should visit Nantucket. Take the boat over. It's so nice. I'm gonna be at the Nantucket Performing Arts Center. Tickets for that go on sale May 11, and I'm doing a bunch of dates to support John Mulaney along with Fred Armisen in May. Colorado Springs, Eugene, Oregon. Bend, Oregon. Moorhead, Minnesota. All of these things are on Burbigs.com Sign up for the mailing list. And if you want to go even deeper, sign up for text message alerts. That way it doesn't go to your spam, just text for bigs to 917-444-7150. To be the first to know. Love talking to Nish Kumar right out of the gate. We talk about Edinburgh Fringe, which is couldn't recommend more highly if you can possibly go to Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland this summer. Nish has done that festival five times. We talk about hecklers. We talk about the humbling nature of standup. He's so funny, so insightful. Enjoying my conversation with the great Nish Kumar. I went into my notebook about Edinburgh today because I was like, you've done what, six shows at Edinburgh?
