New CBS Sitcom Ordered: Mike Birbiglia’s Secret Public Journal
CBS has ordered the new pilot Mike Birbiglia’s Secret Public Journal. It’s based on comedian Mike Birbiglia’s actual blog, called Mike Birbiglia’s Secret Public Journal. It’s so secret that if you read it you have to move to Rome for a year and change your name. But that’s a worthwhile risk.
You need to understand that ‘Birbiglia’ is a difficult last name to type (or say - not that I’ve tried, I’m lazy this morning) and now that I feel that I have memorized it, I need to type it as many times as possible to show off. Birbiglia, Birbiglia, Birbiglia! This just in: Birbiglia makes your hair shinier. Birbiglia is the latest planet to be discovered. Have you eaten your daily dose of Birbiglia? Whoa, that might be taken wrong.
Someday people might say his last name right, but - people still mispronounce the ‘Zeta’ in ‘Catherine Zeta Jones’ - and she’s won an Oscar. (It’s Zeee-tah.)
The name of the show is long, and actually ingenious, possibly. People will invariably shorten it. Now, if they just say ‘Mike Birbiglia‘ then he’s golden, because that means people will be saying his name (probably wrongly pronounced) all the time. But, there is a chance they’ll call it ‘Secret Public Journal‘ - totally skipping his name.
I just broke a brand new hairclip. I mean - I didn’t break it (why do you jump to blame me!?), it kind of just broke on its own. Seriously. I was looking at it and it broke. The pressure got to it. I didn’t realize my demands for clipping back hair were too much. And really, they weren’t. This clip was not trained very well. I am disappointed. I would tell you where I got the clip from but A) It could be a clip anomaly B) The store/company/big-leader-people would probably sue me or something. Even though - they totally owe me a new hair clip. Anyway, I should probably stop talking about hair clips and talk about TV stuffs, since I took a sacred vow to only speak of TV shows until the day I learn to fly - - - fly far, far away, over the rainbow. Where little bluebirds sing. (True story: I just typed blueberries instead of bluebirds.)
The sitcom will be based on Mike’s real life, but there will be a script and if there’s anything too embarrassing they’ll probably say it was made up even if it’s real. This won’t be what we know as reality TV, thankfully. This will be more like Seinfeld, or Ray Romano’s Everybody Loves Raymond.
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