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How to Turn a Comedy Podcast Into a Comedy Documentary
Adapting Good One involved Mike Birbiglia’s life story, Ugly Delicious, and Seth Meyers’s bullshit detector.
Over the course of seven hours of shows in Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., Vulture writer Jesse David Fox and director Eddie Schmidt capture comedian Mike Birbiglia in a way he’s rarely seen: still figuring stuff out. After the Broadway run and subsequent Netflix special of his 2022 show The Old Man and the Pool, Birbiglia is back to square one, figuring out where he can possibly go from a show about death, and if you’ve ever listened to Vulture’s Good One podcast, you know that that sort of magical, awkward, open stage in a brilliant comic’s joke cycle is Fox’s favorite thing to dig deep on. Seth really appreciates different comedic voices and is always talking about other comedians, so his role was partially championing the project and helping in conversations about the tone of it.
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