Sleepwalk With Me...

One of my favorite stand-up comedians is Mike Birbiglia. Oddly, I did not come to him through his various appearances on showcases for stand-up (i.e. Comedy Central, Letterman, or Conan) but though his contributions to The Moth and This American Life.

One of the reasons I like him is because he tells stories as opposed to doing "jokes" and his stories are often very funny while being a terrifying look at some of the things that terrify me...like hyposomnia (which is what I suffer from, not insomnia...thank you, A.J. Jacobs for edifying me on the difference) and hypochondria. Yesterday, while I was waiting for something to install, I read Sleepwalk With Me (It was 148 pages on my Nook. This was not much of a time investment.) and while some of the stories were ones that I was familiar with, others were new, but...they all had a poignancy that they lacked (well, not all) while I was listening to them but was more apparent on the page.



Anyway, check him out. He...always makes me laugh.