Maddie Wiener | How to Find the Humor in a Panic Attack | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast

Maddie Wiener started performing stand-up at age 16. Now, at age 25, she headlines clubs and is a fixture at the Comedy Cellar. Maddie was recently a special guest on Mike’s recent shows at The Wilbur in Boston and now they sit down for a chat about the relationship between anxiety and comedy. Mike helps Maddie develop a story about a panic attack. Plus, the wisdom Maddie learned from Nikki Glaser, and why “Hey, can we talk?” is the scariest text you can get.
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Hosted and Produced by Mike Birbiglia
Producers: Peter Salomone and Joseph Birbiglia
Associate Producer: Mabel Lewis
Consulting Producer: Seth Barrish
Associate Producer: Gary Simons
Video Consultant: Graham Willoughby
Special Thanks: Marissa Hurwitz, Josh Upfal, David Raphael, Nina Cwik, J. Hope Stein, Oona
Music: Jack Antonoff and Bleachers

[@alexishoyt1632]

I am so proud to have ever been on a very local line up with her in Chapel Hill. I have never rooted for the success of someone harder.

[@sunnydays9144]

I have never clicked on anything so fast. Thanks for having Maddie on, amazing comic!

[@Amy-kr4tc]

It’s like Birbiglia heard me over time and created this to make me happy. It’s all of the things I’ve always wanted to know about w comedy. I could watch these forever !! Thank you.

[@mc9828]

The way she writes is incredible

[@juliatrujillo8209]

so glad this exists-- big office hours with the cool professor vibes lol

[@DeathsAngel619]

Maddie is so flipping funny!!!

[@BellyLaugher]

Great laughter--on both your parts❣The time went by really fast➡I couldn't believe it was over already.

[@thinklikeadog007]

Favorite Favorite Episode... so far! Emergent? No URGENT!

[@42armoore]

Thanks for introducing me to Maddie. She is SO damn funny!

[@billwadhams3519]

Great podcast. The conversation, the laughter, the thoughtful consideration. And the way Mike and Maddie explore the construction of jokes.

[@ish474]

What I'm getting most from this podcast is that some people don't really understand that no matter what you do on stage in a comedy club whether it's edgy or vulnerable or political, or a story it has to be funny. We all already have enough of the not funny versions of these topics, but the comedy world is where we get to exhale about all the stuff we all experience throughout the world.

[@ish474]

caveman software is such a rich premise. Mine that for an entire hour!!!❤

[@rickternet]

She is so goddamn funny

[@LeahBeckhoff]

Omg!!!! I love BOTH these comedians! Y'all are so freaking cute! The way you both keep asking each other for consent to talk about hard things omg lol. Thank you for making funny jokes and being warm kind cool people. Maddie I can't wait for you to blow up!

[@ronaldbolton7338]

Always great to see a young comic with a sharp mind and wit. Loved her idea of humans being maladapted to their environment. I think she can really build a great bit from that. Very funny woman and thanks Mike for introducing us to her!

[@valentinadistasio7219]

She is soooo funny! I discovered her only a couple of months ago, and I so wish I could see her perform live! Fantastic talent!

[@KennyVert]

Great conversation. Thank you.

[@Junopalcom]

This is the best mash up

[@hotdog782]

this is so surreal lmao

[@phataldestroyer]

i love the episode, but as a hospital worker, the knowledge between urgent and emergency care is to distracting! urgent care ends at 9pm and emergency is 24/7. (at my highly rated hospital Starts with K ends with R) urgent care is covered with co-pay (cheaper too depening on the insurance) emergency is 50 bucks even with benefits including what ever procedure needed. there's a good joke in there about dying being better than paying 50k in x-ray. anyway, awesome episode! made me laugh a lot! got the joke with it, was crazy how yall related! two of my fav comedians talking?! wow!

[@miramirez3574]

❤️‍🔥

[@danherman212nyc]

Mikes hair appears to be traumatized!!!! Trying so hard to keep it together!!!

[@MarcMcMillin]

is it an emergency, urgent or trauma? 🙂

[@Evanescoduil]

Caveman software, to me, should end or circle back like Mike said, to the pavlovian perfume thing. We have to walk through a mall on caveman software, and we're really just walking around with the outdated 8 track player that is Human Beings. So to get anywhere, and deal with modern problems, you still have to be doing antiquated shit to trick your outdated software/hardware into an outcome, like forcing a smell grab to your brain by the shoulders and force it to remember happy things. There could be a whole special there, themed around how human's seem to have progressed past their natural ability to exist without forcing a change in our environment rather than adapting to it, and all we do anymore is try to resist doing the things hundreds of thousands of years of biology are telling us to do. I don't recall anyone agreeing to the terms and conditions of this bullshit Human Being device, can we get a refund? It's running Windows 10,000 BC