Here's Bill Burr on Conan last night, going off on a variety of topics and explaining why he doesn't want to be President or have his own TV show, which are pretty much the same thing.
The very funny Bill Burr stopped by Conan last night to promote his new comedy special, You People Are All the Same, and he ended up setting some kind of world record for criticizing the most things in the least amount of time. In just five minutes, Burr went off on bandwagon Boston fans, sports mascots, campfire songs, Steve Jobs, political conventions, the people who watch political conventions, guys with Tennessee signs, and people who illegally download comedy specials, all without stopping to take a breath.
Whoa. Bill Burr took a controversial stance on alternative comedy on his Monday Morning Podcast, blaming The Office for the rise of "awkward" nerd humor and railing against babyfaced alt comics for being their lack of toughness.
“I resent the alternative comedy scene for one reason only,” he says. “That scene created a situation; it basically distilled all of the horror out of attempting to be a comedian. No heckling, no drunks, no obnoxious behavior, no aggressiveness [from the crowd]; every fucking reason it takes balls to be a comedian; every fucking reason that people wanted to be a comic but never fucking did it, they’ve removed [those [...]
Bill Burr would like to remind you that he is a comedian. It’s not that many, many people don’t know that — he’s the host of the very popular Monday Morning Podcast, and last year he received the Comedian of the Year Award from the Boston Comedy Festival. But if you are inclined to take the self-styled “uninformed logic” of his act at face value, he’d kindly remind you that he’s just joking.
Burr’s latest special, You People Are All the Same, premiered on Netflix last month; it is now available as a $5 DRM-free download on his site. I got the chance to speak with him [...]
I said, Burr! It's cold in here. There must be some stand-up in the atmosphere. (Yuck. Sorry for that.) Bill Burr announced on his podcast, Monday Morning Podcast, that his new stand-up special, "You People Are All The Same," will debut on Netflix this Thursday, August 16. The location is noteworthy, in that Burr's previous two specials originally aired on Comedy Central. This probably says as much about the state of Netflix as it does Comedy Central. People are looking for new way to release specials and Netflix is happy to be one of those ways. Burr's previous specials are already on Netflix, so watch those in anticipation. [...]
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"Almost immediately after his podcast went public, [Bill] Burr’s assault was dissected by the very comedy nerds he disdained, on all the most popular comedy blogs and Web sites. In fact, the odds are good that many of his listeners are the 'awkward nerds' he disparaged: devout comedy acolytes who perform semiprofessionally in supportive rooms where there is no cover charge and failed jokes are reliably greeted not with heckling or thrown bottles, but with a gentle round of polite applause." – Andrew Clark, for the New York Times Magazine, writing about the rise of the comedy nerd and Bill Burr's rant against the alternative comedy scene.
