( APPLAUSE )
DO WE HAVE ANYTHING? ANYTHING NEW?
NO NEW RESULTS? OKAY, LET'S MOVE ON.
MY NEXT GUEST IS A COMEDIAN WHOSE NEW ONE-MAN SHOW, "THE OLD
MAN & THE POOL," OPENS THIS SUNDAY ON BROADWAY.
PLEASE WELCOME BACK "TO THE LATE SHOW," MIKE BIRBIGLIA!
HI, MIKE. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
>> Stephen: THERE YOU GO, MAN. THERE YOU GO.
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>> Stephen: NICE TO SEE YOU. >> HOW ARE YOU?
>> Stephen: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN HERE FOR A LIVE SHOW?
>> NO! THIS IS SO COOL.
>> Stephen: A LIVE AUDIENCE IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
>> THIS IS SUPER COOL. >> Stephen: NOW, OBVIOUSLY,
MIDTERMS ARE TODAY, SO I NEED TO ASK YOU THE BIG QUESTION ON ALL
THE VOTERS' MINDS: HOW DID YOU END UP IN A TAYLOR SWIFT VIDEO?
YOU'RE IN TAYLOR SWIFT'S MUSIC VIDEO-- IT'S THE ONE QUESTION I
HAVEN'T HEARD ANSWERED TONIGHT. HOW DID YOU END UP IN A TAYLOR--
I DON'T ASSOCIATE YOU WITH TAY-TAY.
>> IT'S, YOU KNOW, I'M IN THE ANTIHERO VIDEO, WHICH IS-- IT
WAS A FLUKY THING. IT WAS A FRIEND OF OURS, MUTUAL
FRIEND OF ME AND TAYLOR, IS JACK ANTONOFF.
>> Stephen: HOW DO YOU KNOW JACK?
>> I HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR MANY YEARS.
WE MET AT A MUSIC FESTIVAL ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO.
>> Stephen: THAT SOUNDS LIKE YOU.
THERE YOU ARE. >> IT JUST SO HAPPENED SHE WAS
WRITING -- >> Stephen: THERE YOU ARE.
>> SHE WAS WRITING THE MUSIC VIDEO THE DAY THAT WE HAPPENED
TO MEET,s AND WE WERE HAVING PIZZA WITH JACK, AND A BUNCH OF
FOLKS.E. >>
AND THEN SHE THOUGHT OH, YOU-- APPARENTLY, IN HER MIND, SHE
THOUGHT THIS IS THE DISTONIC VERSION, THE MIERM VERSION OF
WHAT MY SON WOULD BE.
THAT ENDED UP BEING MY DREAM COME TRUE.
I GOT A TEXT FROM HER-- I DON'T KNOW, A AMONG OR TWO LATER.
>> Stephen: YOU GOT A TEXT FROM HER.
>> YEAH. >> Stephen: SO YOU HAVE HER
PHONE NUMBER. >> SURE.
OR A BURNER. OR A BURNER OF SOME KIND.
I DON'T HAVE IT. >> Stephen: YOU COULD TEXT
HER. >> I THOUGHT MAYBE I WAS JUST
BEING CATFISHED. IT'S JUST A NUMBER.
>> Stephen: DID SHE SAY, "HEY, THIS IS TAYLOR SWIFT?"
>> YEAH. >> Stephen: I WOULDN'T BELIEVE
THAT, EITHER. >> I THOUGHT IT IS TAYLOR SWIFT
OR SOMEONE CATFISHING ME WHO IS AN EXCELLENT WRITER.
SHE SENT THE SCRIPT TO THE VIDEO THAT'S WONDERFUL AND VERY FUNNY.
AND I THOUGHT THIS IS FANTASTIC. EITHER WAY, IT'S SORT OF A
WIN-WIN. I GO, COUNT ME IN, EITHER TAYLOR
SWIFT OR CATFISH PERSON. AND WE SHOT THE VIDEO, AND I
THINK IT'S A RIOT, AND IT'S SUPER COOL, JUST A LITTLE-- TO
BE A LITTLE PARENT OF A BIG SUPER THING.
>> Stephen: NOW, YOU'VE GOT A NEW SHOW HERE.
IT'S A NEW ONE-MAN SHOW CALLED "THE OLD MAN & THE POOL."
IT OPENS THIS SUNDAY.
OH, MY GOD!
BEAUMONT THEATER UP HERE IN LINCOLN CENTER.
OBVIOUSLY, ONE MORE SHOT OF THIS, JIM, RIGHT HERE.
YOU KNOW, IT'S-- YOU KNOW,. >> MY WIFE TOOK THAT PHOTO MY
WIFE, JENNY, TOOK THAT PHOTO. YEAH, FOR REAL.
>> Stephen: YOU'RE SELLING IT WITH SEX.
SO WHAT'S THE SHOW ABOUT? >> WELL, YEAH, I'M NEITHER THE
OLD MAN NEAR THE POOL. I'M-- IT'S ABOUT MORTALITY.
IT'S ABOUT DEATH AND THINKING ABOUT MY OWN DEATH, AND
BASICALLY, IT'S 80 MINUTES OF JOKES AND LAUGHTER AND STORIES
ABOUT STRUGGLES WITH MY OWN HEALTH THAT ULTIMATELY TRIES TO
MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH AS HARD AS THEY CAN.
AND I'VE HEAD REALLY COOL PERFORMING EXPERIENCE WITH
TBECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE MESSAGED ME ON INSTAGRAM AND
SAID, "I CALLED MY PARENTS AFTER I LEFT.
I TOLD THEM I LOVED THEM." >> Stephen: THAT'S LOVELY.
>> IT'S AMAZING. AND IT'S BEEN-- I WAS DOING IT
IN LOS ANGELES, AND A WOMAN AFTER THE SHOW SAID, "I FELT
LIKE-- A FEW YEARS AGO I LOST A BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY,
AND ONE OF THEM WAS MY DAD, AND TONIGHT I FELT LIKE I WAS
LAUGHING WITH MY DAD." >> Stephen: THAT'S LOVELY.
>> EVERY NIGHT WHEN I DO THE SHOW VIVIAN BEAUMONT, I THINK OF
THAT PERSON IN LOS ANGELES. THAT'S WHO IT'S FOR.
>> Stephen: THINKING ABOUT YOUR MORTALITY, AND WHEN YOU
THINK ABOUT YOUR MORTALITY, I SUPPOSE YOU THINK ABOUT
EVERYBODY'S MORTALITY. >> SURE.
>> Stephen: FOR ME THE WAY THE WHOLE THING IS SET UP, LIFE, THE
WAY LIFE IS SET UP. DOES IT EVER SEEM LIKE A STUPID
WAY TO SET THINGS UP FOR YOU DEATH SEEMS LIKE A STUPID WAY TO
END LIFE. >> I THINK ABOUT THAT ALL THE
TIME. IT'S ALL ABSURD AND THE ONLY WAY
TO DEAL WITH IT IS WITH JOKES IN A CERTAIN SENSE.
THAT'S PART OF THE REASON I WROTE THE SHOW.
AND I FEEL LIKE-- I FEEL LIKE-- ONE OF YOUR EXCUSERS WAS SAYING
THE WAY YOU DESCRIBE THIS SHOW SOMETIMES IS THAT YOU'RE NOT
PUTTING THE SHOW ON FOR THESE PEOPLE.
YOU'RE PUTTING ITING ON WITH THEM.
>> Stephen: RIGHT. >> AND THAT'S WHAT MY SHOW IS
LIKE IN A WAY.
INTERACTION, AND THE GOAL IS THAT EVERYBODY FEELS LIKE, OKAY,
WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER, AND WE'RE ALL GOING
THROUGH THIS VERY ABSURD THING AT THE SAME TIME.
>> Stephen: ONE OF THE PEOPLE AT YOUR SHOW RECENTLY WAS TOM
HANKS. >> YEAH.
>> Stephen: AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S TOM HANKS.
>> I KNOW! ROYALTY.
>> Stephen: DID YOU KNOW HE WAS THERE WHEN YOU WERE
PERFORMING? >> I DID.
HE AND I WERE IN THIS MOVIE CALLED "THE MAN NAMED OTTO" THAT
COMES OUT IN CHRISTMAS THAT IS SO GOOD.
>> Stephen: THAT'S NICE. WHAT'S THAT LIKE TO PERFORM WITH
HIM? >> MAN, IT WAS COOL, BUT ALSO
SCARY. YOU KNOW THE PHRASE, "AN ACTOR'S
NIGHTMARE." >> Stephen: WHEN YOU DON'T
KNOW YOUR LINES, YOU'RE LATE, YOU MISS YOUR CUE.
>> I HAD THAT, BUT IT WAS-- IT WAS WITH TOM HANKS.
LIKE, I WAS ON THE SET OF THIS MOVIE, AND IT WAS LIKE THIS
FIRST SHOT OF ME IN THE MOVIE, AND THEY WERE LIKE, "YOU NEED TO
DRIVE THE CAR AROUND THIS CORNER AND COME UP AND THE CRANE WILL
COME IN HERE AND THEN TOM HANKS IS GOING TO COME TO YOUR WINDOW
AND HE'S GOING TO SAY BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, AND YOU'RE GOING TO
SAY BLAH, BLAH, BLAH." I DID IT AND I DROVE AROUND THE
CORNER AND OPENED THE WINDOW AND THERE IS TOM HANKS AND I BLANKED
SKY HIGH, NOTHING, LITERALLY NOTHING!
IT WAS SO FUNNY BECAUSE OF COURSE HERE'S THIS GUY, WHO I
IDOLIZED. I GREW UP WITH AN "APOLLO 13"
POST OR MY WALL. I'M LIKE THIS IS THE NIGHTMARE,
THE ACTUAL NIGHTMARE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID TO ME?
HE DID THE THING THAT SOMETIMES ACTORS DO TO BE GENEROUS.
HE GOES LIKE-- HE TRIED TO FEED ME MY LINES.
HE GOES, LIKE, "HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ME?"
"DO YOU THINK I SHOULD MOVE FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD?"
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HE TREATED YOU LIKE A SLOW CHILD.
>> YES. AND THEN, AND THEN, THEN HE--
BUT IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.
LIKE, THE MOVIE IS AMAZING. AND HE CAME TO THE SHOW THE
OTHER NIGHT. AND I HAD THIS IDEA FOR A TIKTOK
BECAUSE EVERY DAY I WOULD SHOW UP TO THE SET, AND HE WOULD DO
JOKES FROM MY SPECIALS TO ME. LIKE, I HAVE A BIT ABOUT SOMEONE
THINKING THAT I'M SOMEONE'S BROTHER, AND SO HE WOULD GO,
"YOU'RE JOEY BAG OF DONUTS' BROTHER."
AND HE WOULD DO THE BIT FOR ME. AND I WAS LIKE, "MY LIFE IS SO
SURREAL, TOM HANKS IS DOING MY BIT FOR ME."
I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE A FUNNY TIKTOK.
I CAN'T SAY THAT TO THIS OSCAR, AWARD WINNING-- I CAN'T DO IT ON
THE SET OF HIS MOVIE. BUT I CAN DO IT BACKSTAGE AT MY
SHOW. SO I DID IT.
I ASKED HIM THE OTHER NIGHT. AND THEN WE DID IT.
>> Stephen: WE HAVE TO RUN HERE BECAUSE IT'S A LIVE SHOW.
IT WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU, MIKE BIRBIGLIA.
"THE OLD MAN & THE POOL" IS AT THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER
THROUGH JANUARY 15. MIKE BIRBIGLIA, EVERYBODY!
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. ♪ ♪ ♪