-Our first guest tonight is a very funny comedian and actor
you know from his work in "Breaking Bad,"
"The Mandalorian," and "The King of Staten Island."
He's the host of the "Monday Morning Podcast,"
with new episodes streaming twice a week.
Please welcome back to the show our friend Bill Burr.
How are you, Bill?
-What's going on, Seth? Nice to see you.
-It's nice to see you, as well. I wish you were here in person.
Bill, you are a famously optimistic man.
How are you feeling about life going back to normal
now that we have vaccines out there?
-Well, I mean, I think, you know,
hopefully most people will take the vaccine.
And I think people who don't -- I don't know.
At some point, you know,
you're either with us or you're against us.
You know, like, if you have a divided locker room,
you can't win a championship.
Like, I just -- You know, I don't know.
Somebody's got to do a show called
"The Adventures of the Internet Doctor."
These people who haven't gone to medical school,
yet they somehow --
You'd be like, "Oh, yeah, Johnson & Johnson has --"
"Oh, they don't know what the hell they're talking about."
It's like, "Dude, you drive a tow truck.
Why would I listen to you about this?"
So I'm gonna take it.
You know, I'm gonna roll the dice, whatever.
We'll see what happens.
I am a little ticked off that it, like --
it only lasts a year. -Right.
-That's when I'm kind of being like, "Oh, I get it.
This is that corporate thing."
"We could sell 7 billion or 7 billion every year."
It's like, just can you turn up the power
and just cure the damn thing?
Can you just do that, please?
-Have you noticed a difference under the Biden administration
with the vaccine rollout?
Do you think it's better post the Trump administration?
-Well, I think all those guys work for the same people.
I think that's why Trump got out,
as much as they're trying to act like it was a progressive thing.
The thing about it is, is no one could make money with that guy
'cause you didn't know what the hell he was gonna do.
He was a wild card. He was a gunslinger.
Like, I don't understand how war is still legal in 2020,
how that's still, like, an acceptable adult way
that two countries solve their differences.
And as much as everybody thinks that Democrats
are these "We Are the World" people,
they sort of told a lie when it comes to that,
just like the so-called evil Republicans.
So I'm kind of, like, right in the middle.
I'm not in the middle. I'm standing outside all of it.
I learned a lot by listening to George Carlin,
and I think he was way ahead of his time, and he was 100% right.
Put it that way.
-It's interesting you mention George Carlin
and being ahead of his time,
because you produced a documentary
about your friend Patrice O'Neal,
who was a stand-up comedian that I know to comedians
was incredibly well-respected, incredibly well-loved
and maybe not fully embraced by an audience
before he tragically passed.
-No, he was the greatest comedian live I've ever seen.
Ever, and that guy was
so far beyond all of us,
and there's no way in just this segment
to try to sum up the enormity of his talent
and the loss of him dying so young.
I mean, he was the guy that just --
He turned comedians who -- We never shut up.
He turned us all into audience members.
He would hold court onstage, offstage.
He was just killing everywhere he went,
and he could do anything from just silliness
to social commentary.
He just had --
You know, it's something I'll never get over,
to be honest with you.
Beyond being a friend, just as a fan of stand-up
and seeing all of the craziness
and, you know, the double standards and stuff
that he could have had fun with.
I mean, the first thing I remember when he passed away
that I was like, "God, I would have loved to hear his take,"
was that Sandusky interview.
You know?
I don't know how, but he would have somehow, with pedophilia,
gotten a new half-hour.
And would have had people laughing
at something they didn't want to laugh at.
Just to not see him --
You know, like, he would have eloquently been able
to say what I just said, whereas me, I just say it bluntly.
What are you gonna do to me, Seth?
I do stand-up in parking lots now
outside of The Magic Castle, and I'm thrilled.
I actually look at the cars.
I like to see an even amount of, like, Priuses and SUVs
so it's a nice, balanced liberal and conservative crowd.
-Oh, that's interesting.
You can tell by the make of the car
how balanced your audience is these days.
-Yeah. Too many Teslas, it's like,
"Alright, these people aren't attached."
That's my big thing with Joe Biden.
Before we get involved with this Iran stuff,
I just wish he would take a ride in a Tesla.
And just realize that there's other ways to, you know,
deal with whatever the problem is over there.
I don't understand why we can have nuclear weapons
and other people can't.
I don't get that.
-So you think a ride in a Tesla
would be beneficial to Joe Biden because he would --
less reliant on sort of oil-producing nations?
-Yeah.
What you got to do is get in one of those things,
have two kids in the back and your wife there
and have somebody in, like, a Porsche sitting next to you.
And you just put it in, what do they call it,
Insanity, Lunacy mode,
and you just blow them off the line with groceries in the back.
It's hilarious.
I guess gas-combustion people are like,
"Yeah, well, after 80 miles an hour..."
It's like, "Where are you doing 80?"
There's people driving around with their kids, you lunatic.
Go to a track if that's what you want to do.
-I have a lot to ask you about the Super Bowl.
And I'm gonna do that when we come right back
with more from Bill Burr.