Touring is a huge part of your life,
crowds, laughter.
When are you going to get back to it?
It's starting to open up now, right?
Are you going to get, do some indoor shows soon?
Yes.
Actually the Comedy Store is open now, limited capacity.
And I have to tell you, after a year of doing shows outside
in dealing with everything from mosquitoes to helicopters
to doing shows near like highways and stuff to
actually be inside.
And there's no distraction.
I went on stage.
I felt like I was on steroids.
It was so it was so easy.
Like I built back up my hell room muscles
that I used to have.
When, when you first start out as a comedian
you basically do stand up wherever they would let you.
Like, I remember a long time ago, me and this buddy
of mine, Rick D'Elia did a show at the
the Fishermen's Feast in the north end in, Boston.
And we were so excited that Nick's comedy stop called us
like one of the main clubs.
And we were like, oh my God, we're in, we're in!
And it was like an afternoon gig.
He was standing in the streets after like this, a band
playing like "Bola ray, whoa"
And all these Italian women like, hanging out the windows.
Like I felt like I was
in like the Pope of Greenwich Village or something.
And we had to go on after that
and just absolutely just bombed.
Like that's like the whole first eight years
of your career is like every third gig is as bad as that.
So, after you make it and you start selling tickets
you actually get worse.
You're not as good
because people rather than having to
get them, they're like yours to lose.
And I kind of built that stuff back up again so,
I don't know how long that'll last, but -
I feel like it's going to be an, first of all,
like a Renaissance.
I mean,
I know it's not in either of our nature to be optimistic
but I keep thinking people have been so
many performers have been put on ice
for so long that there's all this pent
up frustration observations, anger.
And it's all gonna come out in the arts, in some great way.
Yeah. I'm hoping it's going to be a, a positive thing.
I dunno.
I just wish they'd get rid of CNN and Fox News
and the ability to leave a comment on the internet.
And I think if they just did that
everybody would kind of relax a little bit more
and that could be more sort of, you know
you're on this side of it.
I'm on that side and sort of give each other shit
and then enjoy each other's points more
so than, you know, all the capital letters
that people type in. It's..
Because I am all over the map though,
I get shit like during I get shit
that I'm a Trumpster I get shit that I'm a socialist.
I mean, it's literally all over the map.
But you make both sides angry.
I guess that's what I do.
I never looked at it that way.
Yeah, it's a beautiful thing.
All right.
No, one's happy when you're talking.
(laughs)
I think that's going to be my wife's new ringtone.
That's going to be her new ringtone.
All right, you can see Bill in theaters
across the country this summer and fall on (indistinct)
sorry!
(laughs)
On what?
You can see Bill.
You can see Bill in theaters
across the country this summer and fall on
Bill Burr, the Tour.
When I later have a degenerative disease
they'll say that was when they knew that.
When I mispronounced that, right there.
Do you get worried that it's already coming on?
I do.
I do too, yeah.
Whenever I mispronounce something
I think, oh, that's when it begins this now.
Now is when it starts.
I see movies, and like a week later,
I can't remember what happened.
It's kind of cool.
Cause I can watch 'em again. Like its the first time.
But like, I can't -
I always wanted a place that will give me an operation
that destroys the part of my brain.
That's seen Godfather one and two, so I can see it again
for the first time.
Yeah, that'd be cool.
(laughs)
What if you had, sorry did I not give you the reaction
you wanted?
No, you looked horrified, which is appropriate.
Can you imagine if I had a big scar, right here
and I was running a fever all the time
and you said, what happened?
I went, I had the part
of my brain that had seen Godfather one and two destroyed
but it also attaches to my speech center.
Where my brain went,
it was like, well, there's drugs
you can take that will destroy that part of your
brain. And everything comes new again.
But I don't know if you even understand the context of it.
I've been watching a bunch of, and listening to a bunch
of music from the seventies and movies from the seventies,
just simply because that's when I was a kid.
And I feel like that's before whatever the (beep)
happened to me, happened to me.
And, and so I go back there not like
that was the greatest time
I came over, I came over listening to the dirty Harry
sound track.
Yeah.
It's (bleep) wild.
But you feel like you're going to go solve a case.
There's some, then there's this weird woman's voice going
like, whoa, like this weird sort of drugged out
white thing.
I know, Exactly that, I know that soundtrack.
Well, yeah.
Yeah. I, by the way, one of the most fun things I've done
just, you know, in the last couple of years
was you called me up
when you were playing the Forum and you said,
come on down.
I have a drum kit and I'm with some musicians and you
before I do my show at the forum, we get to screw around
in this amazing space.
So I came down and you said, bring your guitar.
And we had a blast.
You're a great drummer.
It was really fun.
Oh yeah.
Thanks. That was great
I'm good for a comedian.
But I, I, yeah, we had D. Del Ray, Michael Devin.
I'm trying to remember the people.
We had a mix of comedians.
Yeah.
Failed musician comedians, and like real deal guys
like Michael plays with everybody played in like white snake
and all that stuff before all this crap happened and play
Yeah. He could play everything, that was great.
Yeah. Yeah.
So there's a clip.
I wish I could, if
I could find it on one of my phones
we did a Van Halen, Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love.
And there was some guy who had like the Van Halen
like tribute guitar, and he was crushing the solo.
You came down, what'd you play Van Morrison?
It was such a great time.
I think I played Van Morrison, yeah.
We ended up playing for like,
like almost, it felt like three hours, and I had
such a good time.
And then when I stood up, I had no energy left
and I was like, oh my God, did I just blow it?
You gotta do a how at the Forum.
Now I have to do the show.
But fortunately the fear of screwing that up becomes
like adrenaline.
Yes.
And I was able to go out there and yeah
I forget what that sounds like.
Even having like a crowd of, so.
Right. We'll get back to it.
Hopefully.
Yeah. All right.
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