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By Gaëtan L. Charlebois
To say I am a fan of Mike Birbiglia is a bit of an understatement.
I love recorded comedy (aside from the Wagner, there's more of it on my iPod than anything else) and I buy and download damn near anything. (That gets me in trouble, sometimes; ie: Dane Cook, the unfunniest fucking man in America.) On a whim, once, I downloaded a recording called My Secret Public Journal and I was absolutely hooked. This became the recording I'd turn to whenever I was sad because Birbiglia's embroidered true stories about his life were also sad—in the hysterically funny sense of the word.
Mike Birbiglia whose My Girlfriend's Boyfriend opens tonight and runs until Saturday at the Gésu. He's had two hit albums and his new book, Sleepwalk With Me, is doing great guns. "It always makes me laugh when people are surprised that their favorite Hollywood stars are gay. I'm quick to point out, 'Remember how sixty-five percent of the drama club in high-school was gay? Well, they graduated.'" (From Sleepwalk With Me)
