#1575 - Bill Burr

Bill Burr (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. Oh, sorry.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Sorry, are we on?

Bill Burr (0:19)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

We're talking about Steve Byrne's new movie.

Bill Burr (0:22)

Yeah, opening act.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Steve Byrne got in a lot of fights?

Bill Burr (0:26)

Yeah, he had more than...

Joe Rogan (0:27)

He's so nice.

Bill Burr (0:30)

He is, but I don't know what it was. But I remember he was, like, at the comic strip, and he did the late night show, and somehow somebody threw a chair at him. I remember I hit him in the head, and he got cut.

And then, like, two days later, I go to the comic strip, and somebody had taken his headshot down and put, like, staples in his forehead where he got hit by the chair and put it back up. I guess back when you could do stuff like that, it could just tease somebody, you know? So, yeah, so he had that movie coming. I was just saying it got nominated for some film festival award, so I was very, very happy for him.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

He's a guy, like, if you had told me, like, do you think Steve Byrne has ever been in a fight? I'd be like, no, he's so nice. Who's gonna fight Steve Byrne?

Bill Burr (1:10)

I'll let Steve come on here one day and tell the stories.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

I would love to hear it.

Bill Burr (1:13)

I know a half a dozen.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Well, Al Madrigal's another one. Like, when I heard that Al Madrigal has a temper, I'm like, what?

I've never seen it. That's weird. Like, the side of Al I know is always hugs. I've known Al since he was an opening act at the Old Cobbs in San Francisco. You know, downstairs, the little tiny club? Did you ever work that place?

Bill Burr (1:35)

I've done the regular. I didn't know there was another one.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

The Old Cobbs was tiny. It was a little tiny place. There was Tom Sawyer, the guy who ran the second Cobbs. He used to run, like, it was a great club. It was great. He had a real good taste for comedy, so the level of comedy was very good. Dom Herrera told me about it. So I went there, and this was when Al Madrigal was first starting out. One of the first times I ever hung out with Al Madrigal. I was working there for the weekend. Al was the, I think he was the emcee.

And after the show, he and I went over to, I think it was his brother's house, and we got super baked and watched old Oprah Winfrey episodes.

It was Oprah, back when it was Big Hair Oprah. Remember Big Hair Oprah?

Bill Burr (2:19)

I remember crazy show Oprah.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

That was the show. She had like KKK people, and there was like white plastic chairs.

Bill Burr (2:26)

Yeah, midgets and all kinds of crazy shit.

Joe Rogan (2:28)

That was what Oprah was. And we were just barbecued, smoking out of a bong like high school kids, watching Oprah Winfrey.

Yeah, that's Big Hair Oprah. Old school, old school.

Bill Burr (2:41)

I don't remember. That's when she was probably just in Chicago, right?

Joe Rogan (2:45)

I do not know, but it was like...

Bill Burr (2:46)

No, I was watching it back.

I knew of it. Well, that was back when she had the smarts to see where that was going, because that was like Morton Downey Jr. the Ricky Lakes, and all of them were just doing... Like, daytime TV was fucking bananas.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

Crazy.

Bill Burr (3:01)

It was crazy. And then Jerry Springer, I think, he was like the goat of all of that stuff.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

He hung in there longer than all of them. Jenny Jones was doing it. But remember, Jenny Jones, she used to have a comedy show, do you remember this? Where it was women's only.

Jenny Jones was a comic before she was ever one of those daytime talk show hosts. She was like a pretty good comic, you know, doing the road, but she found a niche. And that niche was girls only. So she wouldn't let anybody in that was a man. No managers, get the fuck out of here, it was all women. And so they would tell dirty, dick-sucking stories and wild shit. And just do wild comedy only for women. And Jenny Jones had a super popular daytime talk show they had a show where they had a guy on, and he said, you have a secret crush, and they bring in the secret crush, and it's another guy that he works with.