“Thank God for Jokes carries a theme close to Birbiglia’s life experience: humor itself. In his review for The New York Times, Neil Genzlinger wrote that the show’s chief concerns are ‘what a joke is; the purposes of joke-telling; the limits, if any, on what to joke about and where.’ He also called the show ‘an indescribably ridiculous collection of anecdotes and asides that miraculously blend into a whole.’”
— The New York Times
