Name: Stone Cold Teaches Bill Burr How To Reverse A Leg Lock
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Stone Cold Teaches Bill Burr How To Reverse A Leg Lock' from Comedy University on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-07-13. Transcript available.

but uh i wanted to ask you just as far as being a wrestling fan i mean you
asked me when i was
was i a wrestling fan i watched it hardcore from like 78 to right up early 90s
right when i started
watch uh started doing stand-up and then like i missed everything because when
you guys were on
you know the big stuff i was i was out uh doing stand-up so i missed like all
of seinfeld like
i didn't see any of that until it went into reruns i missed a bunch of sports
in the 90s and all that
and i remember in the late 90s uh the late great patrice o'neill yeah and he's
the great him and
mitch hedberg to me with it in david tell those like yeah when people always
say like man you like
the funniest guy out there it's like yeah because like the top five guys aren't
aren't here anymore
um if they were back you know i'd be featuring at an improv so um in the late
90s i was living with
another comic robert kelly and him and patrice were really into wrestling and
that's when when you and
the rock brought it back and like all of what i've always admired about all you
guys because i never
understood the amount of pain you were going through was how goddamn funny all
the characters were and uh
i mean all the way from like you know captain lou albano to mr wonderful you
know rowdy piper all of
these guys i used to watch all of those guys just laugh my ass off watching
them and then when you
guys came along you took you guys took it to a whole other level and i always
felt you guys were
like prolific like each week when you thought you had all your guys catchphrases
down you came up with
new stuff and we used to me and bobby would watch it and we'd have patrice on
speakerphone he was
living in new jersey and me and bobby were living in like this this walk-through
bedroom apartment and
we would sit in the living room on his pull-out bed obviously he'd you know
fold the thing up during
the day and we'd watch it on this little kitchen tv and just waiting to hear
what you guys were going to
say and all the different storylines and stuff it was great man you know i had
so much fun doing that
shit and finally had to ride off into the sunset with injuries and stuff like
that and so although
it's it is entertainment it's a rough ride in there or can be the best thing
that happened was once they
just said this is sports entertainment then you guys could actually talk about
the the real pain
that you know people just look because when they were thinking oh you know it's
it's it's it's
worked out it's fake or whatever but it's like dude that guy still has to take
a chair to the head
it like whatever three quarters speed do you want to do that or jump off a top
rope and land or get
slammed on your back like i couldn't believe um what i saw hulk hogan one time
uh so first time i saw him
was in the airport and then i saw him when uh he did the uh the opian anthony
show and i remember going
like man i thought he was tall i thought he was like six foot seven but like
his arms hung way down to
like his knees and he said i used to be six foot seven but after all those
years of his finishing
move jumping up with the leg coming down he lost three inches of height you
know here's the thing
about hogan and i always give that guy a ton of respect because he had a
tremendous run you think
something so simple as just jumping up and dropping that leg here's a great
thing about that leg first
of all it worked it looked good he was charismatic as hell had a great look but
anybody could take that
finish so when you come up with finishing pro wrestling you want it to be
something that everybody can
take so if it's a bunch of damn you know crazy toss around whirly gigs you know
and it's acrobatic
right hey not everybody can take that but anybody can lay there and get a leg
dropped on them but my
point is when you're 6'6 you're 320 when you drop that leg for 30 years man it's
like interest it
compounds daily especially as you get up on it in the years so you know he's
paying the price of that
just a simple leg drop and you know there was times dude i would my finish was
a stone cone stunner
so sometimes i'd go to the tv on a monday night raw monday night raw bill was
like therapy for me
because it was like okay yeah i get all my shit out we used to take that night
off of stand up
bobby and priest we would take the night off we'd have him on speaker i
remember one time i think he
actually made the journey all the way in from jersey just to watch it and all
three of us sitting on
that little couch we ordered like chinese food it was it was the greatest man
but sometimes you go
to the building like hey steve you would give you about you know six or eight
stunners tonight you
know bam here's going to come down to the ring give them a stunner give this
guy a stunner and give
it and like god damn my back's all fucked up but you're not going to say well
this my back's kind of
fucked up i better take the night off right you're out there ringing up stunners
with a fucked up bag
so it catches up to you it seems a lot like pro football where they their thing
is always like
uh can you go is the question and there's only one answer to that or else you're
out the door
and someone else is going to take your job so i don't know i mean one night me
and bobby we were
going to we were going to thank god we didn't go through with it there was this
old comedy club the
uh boston comedy club and it people used to always joke it looked like an old
like ski lodge that
sort of burned down i mean it was a shithole had this wooden stage small one
too and we were talking
one night and he was going to do the rocks finish and move what was that the
rock bottom is it called yeah
he was going to do that to me or i was going to do it to him and fortunately i
mean i was already
like 30 years old during that time that would have fucked me up he was somehow
going to do it
and uh we were going to get into some phony argument on like a tuesday night
like with eight
people there and he was going to pick me up and slam me down we wouldn't try to
work the whole thing
out and uh fortunately uh smarter uh we actually just because you remember when
you were a kid and you
try to do all the wrestling moves to your friend the first time first time i
remember doing the polish
hammer and you didn't know not to interlock your fingers he'd slam into your
little buddy's chest
and all your fingers felt like they broke off and we didn't understand like all
of those things i used
i i fortunately i had like you know three younger brothers so uh i could you
know try out the airplane
spin everybody's move but i remember the first time one of the first two times
i really fucked up my
back fourth grade this kid put me in a figure four leg lock because he was
trying to show me how to do it
and he got in he got me into it and then all the kids started going nuts and he
he kind of was like
into the crowd cheering he wasn't letting me out of it so i like i got up to
try to undo the leg and i
felt a pull on my lower back that was fourth grade and then the first time i
messed up my upper back
was tony atlas inspired his finishing move was to put you up over the head and
i picked up my brother
he was about four years younger than me and i went to pick him up over my head
i swear to god it felt
like it felt like my spine bent and i i got i got i got about halfway over my
head i still remember
where i was at i was in the living room so fortunately there was a rug because
when i had to drop him
immediately he was crying because he fucked up his shoulder and um you know so
that's the funny
thing so everybody's sitting there going yeah wrestling's fake wrestling's fake
it's like really
when i do it i still get hurt so well uh it's funny because on your uh twitter
account
at bill burr there's a picture of you and nature boy rick flair arguably one of
the funniest dudes
who ever lived oh god damn he's hilarious and he's my favorite pro wrestler of
all time but my point is
it plays back into your story about being in the figure four bill next time you
get put in the figure
four don't try to unlace your your legs you roll over you reverse the pressure
which way do i
either way whether all you got to do is go belly down and it puts the pressure
on him
allegedly that's how it works so just you know how cool it is 40 years later to
hear it from stone
cold steve austin this is how you get out the figure four i'm gonna teach i'm
gonna teach my
wife how to put me in it see if it works you go dude just go get on youtube
oh my god uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
uh uh uh uh