Mike Birbiglia’s First Trip to London, Tell Your British Friend
May 9th, 2012
Hello everyone,
Next week I’m heading to London for the first time to perform two weeks of my show, “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend,” at the Soho Theater. London is a city I’ve somewhat avoided performing in for a long time. I mean, I’ve also avoided Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou, but with those I have the language excuse.
The problem is that I’ve always felt like things MIGHT go well with London and me. London’s always been that co-worker I feel I might marry if the circumstances were right. But if the date goes badly, it’ll be awkward at work for the rest of time, so it’s probably not worth asking her out.
Over the years I’ve met and admired a whole bunch of British comics: among them Eddie Izzard, Jimmy Carr, Daniel Kitson, John Oliver, and Tim Minchin. I even emailed with Eddie the other day, who asked me what would be a good clip on YouTube to introduce his Twitter followers to my comedy. This sent me into a tailspin. I started going through all these clips on YouTube and saying to myself, “That’s not good enough. And that’s too dumb. And I have a double chin in that one.” It was like I couldn’t decide on my online dating profile photo, because this might be the one!
So I decided on this one:
It’s a collection of talk show clips from my last one-man show, Sleepwalk With Me. The more I started thinking about it, the more I started thinking that the best way for UK audiences to be introduced to me is if they downloaded the Sleepwalk With Me LIVE album on iTunes or Spotify or whatever Internet music site they use in England.
And then I thought, why don’t I give a free copy of that album to every audience member who comes to my first two nights in London?
So that’s what I’m doing.
So now, every single audience member who comes to the Tuesday and Wednesday shows next week in London, May 15th and 16th, will get a free, signed copy of my Sleepwalk with me Live CD. And they will be responsible for ripping it to the their computers, and handing it to another British person, who they will encourage to see my show.
So if you’re reading this and you live in the UK. Perfect. If you don’t live in this UK, forward this to your British friend. You know that guy who has a British accent and is slightly more intelligent than you? That’s him. Now tell him about this.
If no one comes to my shows there, I may never return. If they do, maybe I’ll move there, like Madonna.
All my love,
Mike Birbiglia
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