The Good Life (Birbiglia)
by Mike Birbiglia

"This masterly new show is about life in the sandwich generation, trying to answer questions from your daughter (What is the good life? Who is Jesus?) while caring for a father after a stroke."

— The New York Times

"It’s fantastic. The theme revolves around what exactly constitutes a  ‘good life,’ and it unfolds in segments inspired by deep, sometimes existential questions posed by his nine-year-old daughter, Oona."

— Pajiba

"The Good Life is the sixth of Birbiglia’s one-man shows, each one more or less chronicling a life stage; this is the one where he’s at the phase of beginning to lose people, whether they’re ailing like his dad, or growing up, like his daughter… It’s dangerously marshy terrain, trying to joke about yourself via your family, especially when children are involved. It’s too easy to drift into being sappy or brutal. But… Birbiglia puts on the extra-long waders and squelches in."

— Time

"Hilarious… In The Good Life, Birbiglia finds himself stretched thin by his dual roles as parent and son. How do you support an ailing parent with whom you’ve never been close? And how do you answer the big questions as your kids grow old enough to ask them? Nine-year-old daughter Oona came up with a stumper when gazing upon the marquee for a local smoke-and-vape shop: ‘Dad, what’s the Good Life?"

— Cracked