We finally got him! Mike Birbiglia arrives in Edinburgh for the first time this August with his smash hit new stand-up/story show The Old Man And The Pool and shows us why he's 'Broadway's greatest comic storyteller' (Deadline). We talk about the minutiae of his creative process, from the rhythms of his jokes and his deft use of implication, to the glue between bits, and a walkthrough of his "process guy" process, and find out why he's only beholden to the owner of the circus...

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