December 2023 Jimmy appeared on Mike Birbiglia’s podcast – Working It Out. Mike is a long-time friend of his and the 43 minute chat is called: The World Ordered a Comedian.

This episode deserves more than the 138,240 it has today (July 15th 2025). This extracted clip (the 15 bonus years / suicide part) has had 7,334,757 views!!!!

And, in case you missed it – at a July 2025 gig someone else said that Jimmy’s comedy had stopped him from killing himself. Comedy matters. Especially in the early hours of the morning, when you may not have someone to reach out to.

Mentions:

• Fastball jokes v stories, character driven
• Bit about “the talk” with young men
• Difference between Jimmy’s stage persona and how he is on podcasts
• Dark sense of humour
• Girl (in Sweden) that was considering suicide / 15 bonus years – see above
• Process v results
• Writing books
• Breast Cancer gig / joke
• Ask a comedian which parent was sick
• Hardest Working Man In Comedy
• Joke writing
• Comedy GOATs
• CBT / circular thinking
• Cancellation and finding who your friends are
• James Corden
• Grief / loss of mother
• People you have lost become saints
• Joking with his children
• Before having kids – low stakes table
• Pete Davidson joke / Eric Weinstein hated it
• Societal change
• Don’t be the best, be the only
• Becoming an avatar of yourself
• Boredom is a gift
• Teaching stand-up to kids
• New book – Rosetta Stone of Comedy
• Mike’s tooth joke
• Donating to charity

Book mentions

• Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now

Musical mentions

• Jeff Buckley – Grace
• Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
• Nick Drake