![]() Fortunately I love the group dynamic-as long as I'm working with people that are good! The only time a group dynamic stinks is when somebody stinks in the group! This must be a much more collaborative project than you're used to.īill Burr: Standup is like playing Solitaire. You do the joke, then look at the facial expressions. ![]() ![]() Working on animation, for the first season the biggest challenge has been literally figuring out what it should look like. I probably have a couple of punchup sessions. Is it all in the can at this point or are you still finishing it up?īill Burr: It's all recorded. These banks make enough money putting people out of their homes to put politicians in office! No comedian ever told a joke that made somebody lose their fucking house. No, they want to go after standup comedians. How about insurance companies who take your money for years and then you make one claim and they deny it, or drop you if you have cancer or something? Everyday I meet somebody who’s upside down on their house, they owe more on the house than it will ever be worth. Let’s look at what’s been going on in the meantime: A small group of people have turned our whole food supply into poison. I actually almost don't want to answer this question, to put more gas on the horseshit fire.īut let’s get real. There's been no political movement to come out of comedy, nothing ever changed socially. They're hearing the same thing comics have been joking about since the beginning of time, and nothing's ever happened. It seems like political correctness has now been so internalized that young audiences just don’t laugh at what prior generations thought was funny.īill Burr: I disagree. All they had to do was say, “Hey, if you had to go back to fucking 2009 to find something offensive, you’re wasting everybody’s time.” Jesus, you can go back nine days on my Twitter feed and find something to piss you off. It’s like the network reaction to the controversy with the new host of the Daily Show. To make the calculated outrage work, they need to attach their wagon to somebody people know, someplace with corporate money behind it, a corporation with advertisers who will fold under any sort of pressure. But maybe that's because I didn't have a big TV show with advertising dollars behind it. I for some reason have yet to really offend anybody ( laughs). Patton Oswalt has a theory that political correctness isn’t so much hypersensitivity as it is done for the attention it brings.īill Burr: It's a very calculated outrage. You joke a lot about political correctness. All of a sudden you had to wear a helmet when you go skiing, a helmet when you ride a bike.īack then lifeguards at the pool were just trying to get laid, they weren’t paying any attention to anybody swimming. When did it happen, that kids were no longer allowed to just ride their bikes all day long in the summer with no one knowing or caring what they were up to?īill Burr: I don't know when that stopped. It’s about a bunch of little kids in the ‘70s, basically about the way things were back then. So I thought, why don’t I just animate these things and ramp it up? Just have fun with this animation amalgam of my childhood experiences. It became sort of a challenge, how can I get other people to laugh at this stuff? Through the years of doing standup there are some things you'd say to other comedians, usually that only other comedians would laugh at. Your new Netflix show sounds like an animated Married With Children.īill Burr: Nah, it's nothing like that. We talked to him a couple of weeks ago in advance of his show here this Saturday at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. Called F Is For Family, the collaborative project with Simpsons writer Michael Price is a Dazed and Confused style look back at the ‘70s and life before political correctness took over. This fall, Burr’s animated Netflix series premieres. (His epic handling of a drunk and belligerent crowd at a 2006 gig in Philly earned him legend status, as he defiantly stayed on stage and won them over by heckling the hecklers-and indeed the entire city of Philadelphia-for 12 excruciatingly hilarious minutes.)īurr’s blend of get-off-my-lawn crankiness and childlike observational humor-with distinctly adult language-is somewhat unique, even nostalgic, in an era of more self-conscious hipster comedy where apologizing for edgy material is now often part of the act. KNOWN FOR his standup specials and his popular and long-running weekly podcasts, Massachusetts-born Bill Burr not only has a devoted following, but is one of the most highly regarded comedians among other comedians.
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