Mike Birbiglia

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.