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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
I'm going to stop you. You just blamed all of this on white women. Yes. Where are the men in what you're saying?
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
Well, no, because the Me Too movement for women is about sexual assault.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
Well, I don't want to get into an argument about this, so I'll just say— What's funny is this is how I discuss things. I will just say that—what was the other thing that you just said? I just lost it for a second trying to—
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
But people were protecting him. You know, people were protecting the musicians, the. I'm not arguing that aspect of it.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
No, I mean, I think cancel culture probably went too far. I think it's an issue by issue thing. We agree. And there's a real kind of herd mentality around some of it. I think that's really up for a nuanced discussion about what deserves cancellation and what's just like... Nuanced discussion is not one of my strong points. Yeah. Okay.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
Anyhow, we've been talking about anger and also channeling that into your work as an actor and a comic. I watched a clip of you on The Moth. The Moth is a storytelling podcast that is also a public radio program. And you're so different in that. You're sitting on a stool, not kind of pacing back and forth on the stage. You hadn't shaved your head yet, so you have red hair.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
But you're sitting on a stool telling a story that has a few laughs in it.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
I just want to say in case it's not clear, I think you're hilarious. There's some jokes where I stand back and I go, I'm not sure how to take that. But I think you're a great.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
I love I love your voice. I love your delivery. I love your spontaneity.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
No, no. However. However? No, no. The only however is sometimes I just don't know how to take the jokes and I can interpret it one of two ways.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
I really enjoyed it. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
My guest Bill Burr was recently described by New York Times comedy columnist Jason Zinnemann as one of the greatest living stand-up comics. In Rolling Stone, Burr was described as the undisputed heavyweight champ of rage-fueled humor. Bill Burr has a new comedy special on Hulu called Drop Dead Years. Here's an excerpt. He's talking about driving on the freeway in L.A.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
where he lives when he's caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Meanwhile, there's hardly any cars in the HOV lane, the high-occupancy vehicle lane, which is reserved for vehicles with at least two people. He's tempted to get into that lane even though there's no one else in his car, but he knows the HOV rules are strictly enforced.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
Sean? Yeah. You change your name from Sean to Sean?
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
What is your name change logic? You go into hiding and your name is Michael. You go on and change it to Mitchell.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
It's like, hi, my name's Gina. I'm going to go into hiding. My new name is Gina.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
Okay, that's Bill Burr from his new comedy special. He's also one of the stars of the new Broadway revival of the David Mamet play, Glengarry Glen Ross. The revival has an incredible cast, Burr, Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Michael McKean. Burr co-starred in the film King of Staten Island, which was loosely based on the life of the film's star, Pete Davidson.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
Bercow created, co-wrote, and starred in the animated series F is for Family. Although he's known for comedy that's often contrarian and angry, the new comedy special, Drop Dead Years, opens like this.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
Bill Burr, welcome to Fresh Air. It's a pleasure to have you on the show.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
I'm good. It seems unusual for you to start on a note of vulnerability like you do in this new special. Does this mark a change in your public or private self?
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
So who was the person who told you? Was it your wife, your therapist?
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
At the start of your new special, you said that you started doing stand-up because it was the easiest way of walking into a room and making people like you.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
So what kind of hurt? Are you talking about insults or being ignored, bullied, mocked?
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
I want to back up a little because when you were describing your anger and trying to like change, you said you realized you'd been abusive. Do you mean verbally or physically?
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
Well, that's one of the things you've talked about, is that you had real road rage sometimes.
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Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
And who's the they? Besides people who eat almonds?