The comic, who has survived cancer and once sleep-jumped through a closed hotel window, is bringing his Broadway smash about mortality to the UK. ‘I guarantee you’ll laugh,’ he says
or someone whose affably rumpled appearance suggests Matt Damon waking up from a nap, the comedian Mike Birbiglia is remarkably industrious. He is a film-maker and an actor , and he recently played Taylor Swift’s avaricious son, who discovers at her funeral that he has been left out of her will, in the video for Anti-Hero.
Now the 45-year-old is bringing his latest show, The Old Man and the Pool, to the UK after a sell-out Broadway run. If he had his way, he wouldn’t reveal anything about it in advance. “I’d just say, ‘I wrote a show about mortality and I guarantee you’ll laugh for 80 minutes straight and sometimes people also feel emotions from it and – trust me – I think you’ll love it.
Remarkably industrious … from left, Chris Gethard, Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Mike Birbiglia, Kate Micucci and Tami Sagher of the film Don’t Think Twice.This time around, he has pulmonary issues. “The doctor asked me to blow into a tube,” he recalls. “Then he said, ‘If I was going just by this, I’d say you’re having a heart attack right now.
Indeed, audiences will rarely have laughed so much while being invited to contemplate their own extinction. “All my shows,” he says, “are about the value of fearlessness when it comes to being truthful with the people you love, and how that can make us closer to each other. But this show is like the icebreaker of all icebreakers. If you don’t have a deep conversation afterwards with the person you came in with, then you probably never will.
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