A review by sasha_in_a_box
Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia

4.0

This was very funny, but funny doesn't get you past 3 stars. This super short book was very surprisingly poignant, sweet, unflinchingly honest and tragic in several chapters and it made me want to be friends with Mike Birbiglia really bad. I first found out about him when he was opening for Dimitri Martin at a show in College Park, and his set was fantastic. He is great at improv and is very likable. Dimitri couldn't have asked for a better guy to warm up his crowd. I still chuckle how Mike poked fun at the sign language interpreter who was working with him for the front row deaf audience. He taught us all how immaturely funny the sign for "shit your pants" would be even years after. I hope I never grow up, and I really hope Mike Birbiglia never does either.