Episode 668 - Bill Burr / 2015 In Review

**Marc Maron** (0:09)
All right, let's do this. How are you WTFers, WTFuddies, WTFineers? Happy New Year to you. If you're listening to this Thursday, you gotta get through tonight to make it to tomorrow, which would mean Happy New Year, the beginning. So make it through tonight. Those of you who are listening to this on Thursday, please drive carefully. If you can, I don't wanna be a buzzkill, but don't fucking go out at all. How would that be? If you're not alone and you have some people in your life and you love them and you have relatively easy access to getting over there or them coming to you before sundown, do that.
Well, maybe I am being a buzzkill. Do whatever you gotta do. Go party, stay up all night, do a bunch of blow, get all fucked up, but God, get a ride, will ya? Just get a ride. Or maybe just reflect a bit, reflect a bit. I do wanna say a few words about the passing of Lemmy Kilmister.
Lemmy was on this show, I don't know if it was his last interview, and it was interesting for me to spend time with that guy because I know Motorhead, I know the first couple records, I listen to them, but Lemmy has been a warrior, a rock and roll warrior, an ever, almost seemingly eternal presence. And Rock, if you didn't know Lemmy, if you didn't know Motorhead, you knew Lemmy's face, you knew those carbuncles on the side of his face, you knew that mustache, you knew the attitude that came through even a still image of that guy. You knew he meant it, you knew he meant business, you knew he was the real fucking deal in a world where there aren't that many real deals.
So for me, it was an amazing treat and honor to talk to the guy. I think we had a nice interview. I knew he didn't look well. I knew he didn't feel well.
But that doesn't make it any easier to lose a guy and to have to deal with that.
But as I said, Lemmy was fucking rock and roll. Lemmy was the real fucking deal. He lived it and he lived it all the way to the end on his own terms with a lot of fuck you in him. And that's what good rock and roll requires. Just the right amount or even a little bit more than necessary of fuck you. So Lemmy, you will be missed. And I did want to give you a heads up. There was some great Lemmy talk, a great Lemmy story on episode 656 of WTF with Robert Trujillo and Flea, talking bass, talking about Lemmy. Lemmy, the interview I did with him is still up and available. That's episode 634 And I just, if you didn't listen to it or you don't know who Lemmy is or it's not necessarily important to you, I just want to share this clip with you. It's a clip of Lenny and he's telling a joke. And it's actually pretty touching hearing him tell it now, given that we've lost him.
And so enjoy this side of Lemmy. All right. And then go listen to Ace of Spades. What's your favorite joke, Lemmy?

**Lemmy Kilmister** (3:47)
On the radio?

**Marc Maron** (3:48)
Yeah, no, we're free to say whatever the fuck we want.

**Lemmy Kilmister** (3:52)
But probably the best one I got was Jesus walking around heaven, you know, checking everybody out. Yeah. And everybody's blissful fucking harps and halos and that. And Jesus sort of old fella sitting in a corner, crying his fucking eyes out, you know, miserable as fuck.
And he says, excuse me, he said, you're in heaven, you know what I mean? He said, people go to church five times a week, every week of their lives to get up here. He said, and you're here, you've made it, so what's the matter? The old guy says, well, he said, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cause any trouble, he said, but when I was on earth, I was just a poor carpenter, you know, and we had nothing. And we had this little boy, and I wanted him to follow me into the carpentry business, you know, but then he said he had to go away on a mission and he went off into the desert with twelve fathers, and we never saw him again, he said.
And I was hoping, he said, that when I got up here, you know what I mean, I'd see him again, but I lose everywhere and I can't find him, and he's already cracking me up, and Jesus with tears streaming down his face goes, Father, and the guy says, Pinocchio.