Name: Bill Burr - Talks About The Time Cancel Culture Went After Kevin Hart
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Talks About The Time Cancel Culture Went After Kevin Hart' from Comedy University on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-07. Transcript available.

Joe, you know, as of the recording of this, the Oscars does not have a host.
You know why that is?
Because everybody tweets.
Everybody tweets.
Everyone has a fucking tweet.
That could end your career.
I got best picture.
I got them all pulled up here.
Joe, what would you do if you got picked to host the porno awards
and they went back into your Twitter history and somehow found something
that made people take that gig away from you?
He doesn't even masturbate, he said.
Fired.
I mean, Jesus Christ.
That's why I shut my Twitter down.
I was like, fuck this shit.
You know what was funny about that?
I feel like so much of that shit, it starts with something you couldn't argue.
You know what I mean?
Don't be homophobic, right?
And then it becomes like a group and it's organized.
And then this group, not the group of people they're representing, the group
itself.
What they got to do is in order for people to respect them,
they got to fucking, they got to take somebody out
or they got to make somebody apologize to them.
And then it, because if they don't have that, then they don't, nobody listens
to them.
Right.
Right?
Now, I don't want to name any names here, but what was funny about this whole
situation
is they never got this person to fucking do that on this one, which was
hilarious to me
because they went like, you know.
I don't think it's a, it's not a secret are you talking about.
I know, I know, but I don't want to start it all back up for them.
So I'm just not going to say the name.
Whoever knows what I'm talking about.
What was funny to me, they're like, hey, you got this fucking thing.
Right.
We don't like it.
Apologize for it.
And he's like, I already addressed it.
They go, well, address it again or we'll take the show away.
And he goes, all right, take the show away.
And they're like, say that you're friends with us.
That was the last thing.
Say that you're an ally.
And he's like, I'm not doing that.
And it's just like, why would I say I'm an ally?
You took my fucking dream gig away.
But what I thought, like, the thing about that was they needed him to validate
them.
Show that we have power.
Because, you know, so I feel like so much of it becomes, it's not even, hey,
let's try
to educate people.
This person made a mistake.
Let's let somebody know about their mistake.
Why we, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Then there was another guy going, okay, well, this guy's a bad guy.
Look at these three women.
They've all fucking said this shit.
I'm not going to, don't name names.
Okay.
Because I don't want to start any problem with anybody.
But what was funny was all of their tweets that I read were clearly jokes.
They clearly didn't mean it in a homophobic way.
But the way it was written, it's just like, well, and everybody's just like, oh,
stop being
petty with them.
It kind of felt fucked up to me.
The same thing happened with what's-her-face that got fired for the blackface
thing she
said on the show.
And then people came out and they were like, look at all these famous people
that did blackface
jokes and actually put blackface on.
Oh, somebody did a joke about blackface?
I can't even keep up anymore.
Tons of people have done that.
No, no, but somebody did a joke.
No, she didn't do a joke.
She said, you know what's funny?
I literally can't even remember.
Oh, is this the news lady?
Yeah, she was just like, she just was saying like, I don't understand if you
dress up like
a black person for Halloween that you admire.
Why is that blackface?
How's that the same thing?
You're not mocking them.
And she got fired.
Oh, I see.
It's like, okay, if you want to go as Denzel Washington and you're white, yeah,
if you do
that.
Yeah, it's weird.
But that's one of those things, though.
It just comes back to like, well, if you fuckheads didn't do what you did, then
you could do it.
And I don't think she even disagreed with that.
I think she was just posing the question like, I don't understand.
And they were like, beat it.
Here's the rest of your contract money.
Get out of here.
And then but then people in retaliation or rather in defense of her were being
like, yeah, but
what about all these famous people that actually put on blackface because they
were doing
a sketch or they thought it was funny or whatever?
And I'm not criticizing those people either.
I'm just saying this is what I don't like.
Every person gets singled out for a thing and they try and people try to make
an example
out of them.
And it's a lot of it is like the rollerblading fad, which I always use as a
fucking example
because it was like everybody had the charge with that.
I did joke.
My little booty shorts.
Joe, everybody fucking rollerbladed just about.
I mean, it was just it was so fucking mainstream.
And then all of a sudden it went away.
And then everybody because that homophobic joke made it go away or whatever.
And then like everybody acts like they didn't they didn't do it or like there's
a band that
like sells a fucking nine zillion records like Nickelback and then you just
cannot find a
Nickelback fan.
It's like, well, who did the band buy all those fucking albums?
Everybody gets to pretend.
So all of this shit, like where they go back to like, you know, 19 fucking 90
something
or 2000 something.
It's like this person said this.
What about this?
It's like, well, where the fuck were you?
You were alive when that happened.
Yeah.
Where's your fucking tweet about it?
Like this fucking thing where you go back like retroactively where like, you
know, I don't
know.
It's just this whole fucking weird thing where everybody's just trying to get
everybody in
trouble.
It undermines the very definition of progress.
Progress works like this.
You look at a thing you did and you go, that was fucked up.
We shouldn't do that anymore.
Let's be better.
That's progress.
Right.
Progress doesn't exist if you don't have that growth portion of it.
That's progress.
So these people essentially want to eliminate the idea of progress and create
this, this
like omniscient fucking, you know, all knowing, uh, eternal knowledge that it
doesn't fucking
exist.
No, that pertains to them.
That's the thing that if it pertains everybody, like the Patrice used to do
this great joke
about how people like when they get a disease, a famous person gets a disease,
then they,
they, they start a cause for that disease.
He goes, I want to see a famous person with a disease that starts raising money
for another
disease.
It's like, like, like, it's like, you only give a fuck about this shit.
Cause you have it.
Right.
So, so many of these fucking groups, like what they're saying and all this shit,
it's like,
you're just saying that because you, you, and like, cause you are that group
and now you're
yelling at me.
And, and it's just like, if you weren't in that group, you'd be over here with
me eating
fucking buffalo wings not paying attention.