Mike Birbiglia confesses some unprofessional behavior to former boss Conan O'Brien Screenshot: Conan For comedian and raconteur Mike Birbiglia, self-owns are a way of life. Anybody who knows Birbiglia’s body of work as a masterfully self-effacing monologist is aware of a whole lot of things the comic and actor has done that he genuinely wishes he had not. Some of the stuff really isn’t his fault—the sleepwalking condition that famously saw him hurling himself through a La Quinta Inn second floor window in his underpants can’t be laid at his feet. (It can, however, be the framing device for a career-changing movie.) As Birbiglia is wont to greet audience gasps of horrified realization once he reaches the precipice of one of his stories of impending disaster, “I know—I’m in the future also.”