#1348 - Bill Burr

Joe Rogan (0:00)

One, two, one.

Young Bill Burr, Paper Tiger coming out tonight on Netflix. Ooh, exciting. Are you pumped?

Bill Burr (0:10)

Yes, I am. I'm very excited, I think more, just to see, you know, just to people see how good it looks. It was Mike Binder directed it.

And, you know, I just, I don't know, I just had this idea for how special I wanted it to look. And none of it really had to do with other, like, necessarily comedy specials, more like rock concerts that I saw. And not saying it's all, like, super jumpy and stuff, but just sort of like, I don't know. That's weird how the way they shot shit back in the day where they held shots longer, so it sucked you in, so you kind of felt, not necessarily that you were there, but the presence of being there. And I really have this belief that if you fucking go, edit really quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, it's like flipping through the channels, and each time, like, your brain resets.

And like, when you go to a show, you're just sitting there looking at the band, you're looking at the comedian like that. It's not like, I'm here, now I'm in the balcony, now I'm behind you, now I'm up here, and all that. So, we try to make sure, like, the pacing of it, I explained it to him, and he was just like, I get it.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

Well, he's a comic. So, that certainly helps.

Bill Burr (1:10)

Yeah, so the way he did it, I hope that people see that, as opposed to the shit that they normally do, like, hmm, how can I get offended?

Joe Rogan (1:21)

Well, they're definitely gonna get offended.

It's a sport now to get offended by comedy. Seems like people get excited to be offended.

Bill Burr (1:29)

I know. A lot of the questions I've gotten from people, non comedians, that have been about, you know, well, in the light of Dave's specials, it's like, weren't you guys all mad at Sebastian like a week ago?

Now it's Dave.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

Were they mad at him for the MVH one thing?

Bill Burr (1:43)

No, they weren't. One person got mad and wrote something, and then everybody, oh yeah, oh yeah.

I didn't realize I didn't like that. I don't like that.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

What was it? I didn't hear a peep out of that. Did you hear?

Bill Burr (1:53)

I don't want to start it back up for him.

SPEAKER_3 (1:57)

I'm trying to get him, get him all going again.

Bill Burr (1:59)

It was just like.

Joe Rogan (2:01)

I don't know why he did that anyway. I was like, those things are never fun. You're basically, you're the host of what's a commercial for a bunch of bands.

It's just, he's a great comic. He sells out Madison Square Garden. Like he doesn't need to do that.

Bill Burr (2:17)

And he did a great job too. He did a great job. Somebody was talking about.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

Four times in two nights, which is crazy. He turned over Madison Square Garden like a comedy club.

Bill Burr (2:25)

Yeah. Like he was doing an improv.

Joe Rogan (2:28)

Like he's doing the fucking great improv.

Bill Burr (2:30)

I got two shows Fridays, two shows Saturday.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

Come down and see me. It's at, oh yeah, Madison Square Garden. In the round.

Bill Burr (2:36)

There was no other way.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

18,000 people. Yeah.

Bill Burr (2:40)

18 times. I would say he could have done Giant Stadium.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

He could have.

He really could have. But it's like, why bother? Why bother doing a VH1 Music Awards? It's just, it's not a good venue for comedy. It's not a good, like people see him.

Bill Burr (2:57)

You know why? Because Eddie did it, Chris did it.

I'm gonna talk too much to keep this fucking thing going. And it's like a, it's a legendary old school standup gig. You know, you did it.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

VH1 Music Awards?

Bill Burr (3:10)

No, it was MTV.

Joe Rogan (3:10)

Was it MTV Music Awards? Oh, they're all the same to me.

Does VH1 have their own Music Awards? They don't? Look at me, I'm fucking so old. I don't even know what I'm talking about. They're making CDs, selling CDs after the show?

Bill Burr (3:23)

I know. I still remember that MTV was cooler than VH1.

Joe Rogan (3:27)

Does your Jaguar have a CD player?

Bill Burr (3:32)

No.

Joe Rogan (3:33)

Then why? My car doesn't have one either.