This is Mike Birbiglia. He tells a pretty good story.
Among his many credits, Birbiglia is a frequent contributor to This American Life. Within that framework, Birbiglia had a contest to select his “understudy.” This is a hilarious premise in and of itself as one would be understudying for his one-man show. Here he explains the contest to Jimmy Fallon.
As you may notice, this blogger has become comically besotted with a comic named Maria DeCotis, due to her presentations of outtakes from our Governor Andrew Cuomo. Before she started with the Cuomo stuff, she entered the Birbiglia understudy competition, choosing to do one of his most favored bits, “Scrambler.”
But she did it in Italian.
This performance made the cut, and she ended up performing for an audience and Ira Glass. It is hilarious.
Hey. Lorne Michaels. Are you watching this performer? Yinz should be.