Reviews
Rate ShowI’ve been a fan for soooo long…
….and now I get to hear Mike Birbiglia laugh in a new episode every week! Get the inside scoop on matters of all sorts.
- WendyQuilter
- Nov. 24, 2025
My favorite podcast
Fun, helpful and hopeful. This podcast inspired me to get back into comedy. Every episode is a winner but I highly recommend the Todd Glass episode.
- BoofyHodge
- Nov. 21, 2025
Yes to Jen
Wonderful synergy between you two! Didn’t expect Jen to have such great comic timing, among her other gifts…
- Flawless Hollice
- Nov. 12, 2025
Informatively Funny!
After nearly a year of being a devoted listener I’ve gained the confidence to mount my own solo show! Some specific takeaways are Fred Armisen giving the advice to start off smiling and Mike’s advice to never make the audience so sad that you can’t bring them back from it.
My show, Turning Tigers into Pancakes, opens this week in NYC and I’ve been humbly saying that if a Mike Birbiglia comedy special got together with a Hannah Gadsby comedy special and had a Black/Queer baby, it would be Turning Tigers into Pancakes.
Thanks Mike! Thanks Working it Out team!
- @jomiray
- Nov. 11, 2025
- AKSJAGHRBJDFV.AEJBR.SDOUF
- Nov. 11, 2025
Mike and Jen are wonderful together
Funny, touching conversation: a great comic and a terrific poet walk into a podcast and make me happy.
- Canadian Ken
- Nov. 7, 2025
So good
Jokes on you, I wanted to cry in my garden while listening to J. Hope Stein read her poetry out loud.
- Jana739
- Nov. 4, 2025
Come for the deep talks about process, stay for the way Pete Holmes mercilessly makes fun of Mike
“You’re like the piece of paper they put on overhead projectors and a tired dad writes equations on.”
Pete is not on the show all the time but when he pops up I’ve come to think of it like my generation’s Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner.
If you’re looking for a good place to start: 100th episode with Ira Glass, every Pete Holmes episode, and Quest Love have really stuck with me.
- Not that Ellen
- Nov. 3, 2025
- Jorgan_Garlath
- Nov. 2, 2025
- Prozizzle
- Nov. 1, 2025
New music
Love Mike, this podcast is sometimes just a little low energy for me at times, personally. I do always enjoy the interviews and Mike is able to draw out authenticity from his guests compared to other celebrity podcasts. I’d give it five stars if the intro and transition music wasn’t on the low- energy/depressing side. I often don’t listen to episodes because the beginning music vibe just isn’t for me. I’d go see Mike, if he came to MA to do a comedy show, in a SECOND!!
- applerosegrill720
- Nov. 1, 2025
Will we ever get another album?
Great comedian talks about shows poor people will never be able to see/hear. I assume it’s a netflix thing
- Jorgan_Garlath
- Oct. 31, 2025
Nick Offerman-my New Fave WIO
Nick Offerman's episode is my new favorite Working it Out episode! So much heart and humor. No other podcast compares to WIO, so much real conversation, insight, and playfulness. Thank you! -Big Fan in Sacramento, CA
- Music Lover in Sacramento
- Oct. 29, 2025
What I should’ve said
How do I put into words what this show does for me? I have followed Mike throughout his career. His stand up speaks to a very real part of me. Not just the shared experiences or the fact that my dad did stand up when I was growing up, but like someone truly gets me and doesn’t even know me. I listen to every episode and have since this came out. I look forward to it every week. I joined the pay subscription. I will continue to support this any way that I can because it is so much more than a podcast to me. This past episode with Caleb Hearon was the best episode yet. It is intelligent and funny and clever and human. I truly don’t know how to express my gratitude for something seemingly understated, but genuinely a part of my soul.
- Sparks922
- Oct. 24, 2025
Just brilliant
Ok the Caleb Hearon episode finally pushed me to write a review, but I’ve been deeply in love with this podcast since I started listening a few months ago. Long time fan of Mike, love everything the guy does honestly. I’m an actor and comedian and I’m finally forcing myself to try standup (terrifying, thrilling) after decades of acting, sketch, and improv, so thought I’d check this show out finally. It’s great for comedy tips and insight, but the guests are just interesting in general and the conversations have been so inspiring for work and life. 10/10 recommend. Mike, you’re a treasure.
- Popotron
- Oct. 23, 2025
Get Caleb on here
Have absolutely loved WIO since the beginning. Great guests, many I discovered through the show.
Recommendation for a future guest is Caleb Hearon! I sense that the discussion of craft would be so interesting between the two of y’all. It’s his moment right now, get on it, Birbigs team!
- LoEpRad
- Oct. 16, 2025
Sebastian Maniscalco was so fun
These two have great chemistry. I loved the idea of Sebastian helping Mike get tough on a current domestic issue. Sweet, charming, sometimes hilarious and very honest.
- Apsara lover
- Oct. 14, 2025
New premium episode was great!
Loved the new experimental episode punching up listener’s jokes. Cool and informative to hear you and the team as if in a writer’s room. Gave me a new perspective on joke writing as a skill — very cool!
- AKSJAGHRBJDFV.AEJBR.SDOUF
- Oct. 7, 2025
For Pete’s sake
While understand your point and I am by no means condemning the parties involved, you attempted to equated cursing with teen pregnancy. One is the inability to hold your tongue, found in the book of James, and the other is a sin, listed in 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians. I am not a fundamentalist Christian, but seriously you are embarrassing yourself.
- HROXTX67
- Oct. 1, 2025
This podcast is a golden hour for my brain
I love this show. Love Mike’s take, and find it refreshing that he doesn’t have a sidekick, or someone constantly laughing in the background. Well done and entertaining. Thank you!
- Loves a lemon
- Sept. 15, 2025
A Podcast For The People
Mike Bilbiglia delivers a podcast as for both fans of podcasts and comedy. Each guest grabs attention of the followspot. Every week of new episodes is a thrill to experience. Thank you, for taking concern in what musicians, audio engineers, and unpublished book authors may have to impart to you!
Thank you, once again!
—J.Swiercz
- Intellect707
- Sept. 15, 2025
Genuine Conversations
Mike Birbiglia’s interviews feel like personal conversations with a friend. Very engaging.
- Chicago Vic
- Sept. 10, 2025
Favorite podcast!
Working it out is a highlight of my Monday mornings! Always my first podcast listen each week.
- AKNJ705
- Sept. 10, 2025
Essence of Birbiglis
Episode 170 has a perfect quote about one thing that makes Mike so wonderful: he is always working to improve and has enthusiastic, generous curiosity.
- jgr314
- Sept. 8, 2025