Eugene Mirman Biography

Eugene Mirman (Eugene Boris Mirman) is a Russian-born American comedian and writer known for playing Yvgeny Mirminsky on Delocated and voicing Gene Belcher on the animated comedy Bob’s Burgers.

Eugene Mirman Age

He was born on 24 July 1974. (He is 44 years old as 2018)

Eugene Mirman Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.

Eugene Mirman Parents

Her parents are Marina Mirman (mother) and Boris Mirman (father)

Eugene Mirman Wife

He married Katie Westfall Tharp

Eugene Mirman Children

The couples are blessed with one son

Eugene Mirman Education

He attended William Diamond Middle School and Lexington High School in Lexington, Massachusetts, and Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts. He later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in comedy, with a one-hour routine as his thesis. In East Madison, NH, He attended camp Tohkomeupog. He turned to his high and college to deliver the commencement address.

Eugene Mirman Career

He released The Absurd Nightclub Comedy of Eugene Mirman, a CD/DVD on Suicide Squeeze Records. He released another comedy album titled God Is a Twelve-Year-Old Boy with Aspergers which was recorded in Chicago at the Lakeshore Theatre in some years later. He again released An Evening Of Comedy In A Fake, Underground Laboratory. He co-produced the weekly standup-variety show Invite Them Up with Bobby Tisdale and Holly Schlesinger, which won a Nightlife Award and currently produces Pretty Good Friends at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn with Julie Smith, which has been voted the best comedy night in New York City by New York Magazine.

He occasionally opens for the comedy troupe Stella, and has opened for various bands such as The Shins and toured with Modest Mouse, Yo La Tengo, Gogol Bordello, Andrew Bird, and Cake. He stated that opening for musicians is uncommon and that music concerts pay three times that of a comedy gig, and also toured with Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn and Maria Bamford on the Comedians of a Comedy tour. He performed stand-up on the John Oliver’s New York Stand Up Show on Comedy Central

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• I don’t have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.
  A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You’d just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn’t know what words were.
• I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say “nihilism?” You’d be curious. What’s underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?
• I moved recently and I moved my cable and Internet and phone service which was all provided by Time Warner Cable. And you know, I made a plan with them where they’d come sometime between the summer solstice and winter solstice and I would wait.
• You just can’t make up random information and say it sarcastically and have it make sense. You can’t just be like, ‘I went out on a date with a Jewish girl. She was ruder than a wolfcat – an animal I’ve made up and decided is rude.
• I don’t speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, ‘Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it a library?’ – no problem.
• If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.
  What I think you should do is imagine people in their underwear but then also imagine them crying, and that – that is truly relaxing.
• Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don’t be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question–something too difficult to answer quickly–e.g., ‘What’s Congress up to?’ or ‘You ever learn any cool science?’ When you ask the question, don’t make eye contact, keep moving and get out of there. Do not wait for a response and deny ever asking it. Repeat these actions until you are never again spoken to by that individual (about four times).
• Marriage is when two people love each other so much that they promise that if they ever, ever stop they’ll fill out tons of paperwork.
• What do you think you should do if you’re attacked by a bear? Play dead? No – that’s a lie promoted by the bears.
• A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.
  Everyone knows that Jews control the media and banks and stuff. But did you know that when you go to a carnival and you have to be a certain height to go on a ride, Jews control that height? It has nothing to do with safety. It’s just us flexing our Semitic muscles.
• Imagine the wars we would’ve avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
• Let’s start anew. Life is goals – Purpose-Attempts – Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishments. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it’s actually simple.
• There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, ‘America Is Better Than Abortion.’ I think she meant that America was too good a place for the horror of abortion. But instead, it sounded like she had weighed both – the American spirit and getting an abortion and decided that American spirit better. I think it is a bad idea to have grammatically ambiguous protest signs.
• Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from complete economic collapse?
  Most bullies are the product of stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, ‘Don’t abuse me like your parents abuse you!’ Then call children’s services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you’re worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home.
• Boys have penises and girls have vaginas. If they touch at the wrong time, you can make a baby or die.
  I saw this huge billboard that said: ‘Abortion Hurts’ and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is that for? Is there a lady who’s going to see that and be like, ‘Oh, I was going to get an abortion but now that I realize it hurts I guess I’ll just give birth to a child! ‘Cause I know that’s painless and raising it should be a snap!’
• To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that’s how you do things.
• You know how sometimes when you’re drunk you say something you sort of regret… to Ace Frehley?
  Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the ’80s, but toward the end of that, in the early ’90s, people started doing comedy again in alternative spaces.

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Eugene Mirman’s New Documentary Is the ‘Most Personal’ Thing He’s Ever Done

AUSTIN, Texas—Eugene Mirman was hanging out with some of his comedian friends one day when they started joking about starting a comedy festival in his name. Over a decade later, the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, which ran for 10 years at the Bell House in Brooklyn, is the subject of a new documentary called It Started as a Joke.

Mirman, best known for voicing Gene on Bob’s Burgers, acknowledges the irony of premiering the film about a festival that, in comedian Mike Birbiglia’s words were initially invented to “make fun of other festivals,” at the South by Southwest festival.

“Yes, you become what you make fun of,” Mirman tells me. “It’s fine.”

In addition to stand-up showcases with silly themes like “An Evening of Entertainment from People with Black Glasses,” Mirman’s festival included irreverent stunts like putting a licensed therapist in a bouncy castle for one-on-one sessions or a getting an accountant dressed as a clown to give tax advice. They gave attendees the chance to ride an “awkward party bus” that alternated between fun dance music and sad Harry Chapin songs. Mirman even hired an actress to sit on the bus and cry for hours.

It Started as a Joke is directed by Julie Smith Clem, who also helped produce the festival and before that ran a weekly comedy show in New York with Mirman and Michael Showalter. They originally thought it would be a one-off joke but people seemed to enjoy it so they kept it going until ultimately deciding to end it after a solid 10 years. The documentary chronicles how that final festival served as a capstone of sorts on New York’s alt-comedy scene.

Over those years, many of the comedians Mirman came up with started moving to Los Angeles and became so successful that it wasn’t always easy to get them back to Brooklyn to perform for the festival’s relatively small audiences. Mirman himself moved his family to Cape Cod a few years ago, a decision that coincided with the film’s unexpectedly dramatic plot twist.

Shortly before Mirman married Katie Westfall Tharp, who has worked as a set decorator on shows like Human Giant and Inside Amy Schumer, she was diagnosed with cancer. The couple ended up having a son using a surrogate and the film shows how Mirman has struggled to find a way to joke about those experiences on stage.

Originally, he didn’t know if he even wanted to acknowledge cancer in his stand-up, but the documentary gave him a platform to explore it in a way that felt more nuanced and respectful.

“In general, I feel like it helps me to have a goal,” he says. “So being like, I’m going to try to come up with material about cancer for this documentary—it is a sort of crazy way to be like, I’m going to do this thing that really terrifies me and I guess I’ll document it?”

In the film, Mirman’s wife seems generally uneasy about his cancer jokes, but he tells me there is one she loves. The basic premise is that now when people invite them to things they don’t want to do, he gets to tell them, “We’re only allowed to do stuff that’s necessary and enjoyable.”

“This movie is by far the most personal thing that I’ve done or been a part of,” Mirman, who is not known for being a confessional comedian, says.

Because of his willingness to open his life to the world in this way, the film becomes something much more than simply a documentary about a comedy festival. It’s really about comedy’s ability to heal and bring people together to support each other through the hardest moments in life.