Name: What Bill Burr Has Learned from Death Bed Stories
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Bill Burr Has Learned from Death Bed Stories' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-08. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- There's two deathbed stories that I heard, all right?
One of them was, should I tell the sad one
or the cool one first?
- It's up to you.
- Okay, I'll tell the cool one first.
We'll land in a dark place.
So I remember hearing Lou Reed,
when Lou Reed was on his deathbed,
he was just sitting there relaxed,
smiling with this look of like wonderment,
like enjoying your last experience.
I'm going to experience death.
And he was open to it
and had like a little smile on his face.
And it's just like, okay, that's how I would like to go out.
Not being like, oh, fuck, oh, fuck.
And then there was another one.
I almost don't even want to say the fucking name.
I'm not even gonna, it was this famous guy
and he was a child star.
And I don't think he ever got past that, you know,
the ups and downs, I was here and now I'm only here,
but he's still like doing these huge shows,
but he's not as big as he was.
And his final words were so much wasted time.
And if you look at his career, it wasn't.
He worked his ass off.
But then that's what scares the shit out of me.
I'm like so much wasted time, dude.
You played fucking theaters for 40 years,
selling out and made millions of dollars.
And you came out the other side of that,
saying so much wasted time.
So that's kind of making me look at like, you know,
there's this weird sort of thing with what we do.
Like, oh, it's exciting and stuff.
But, you know, you kind of also sit back like, all right,
well, I'm doing, if I do that too much
and something else suffers,
or did I take the time?
Like, you know, I have a pool, I'm never in it.
So it's just this expensive puddle.
Like, what am I doing with this fucking thing?
And someone comes over to maintain your puddle.
Dude, and that was the dream.
I remember like living in play, fucking New York.
No air conditioners.
Like someday I'm going to get a fucking house
and I'm going to have a fucking pool.
And on a goddamn day like this,
I'm going to fucking jump into that thing.
And yeah.
And on hot days like that, I'm not.
I'm fucking sitting in my office, you know, working.
Well, there's something to be said about that,
because that's what you're supposed to do as a dad and everything.
But then, you know, there's also that other thing.
It's like, if you work too much,
do you end up being that guy laying there?
You probably will.
Yeah.
You know, the thing about those guys,
well, if you work too much, I'm saying,
I think those guys that, that's so, so much wasted time guys,
you know, they're, they also,
it's very difficult when you're in a competitive business
like show business to pay attention to just yourself
and just like enjoy your experience and be in the moment.
Everybody is looking at themselves through the eyes of the success of other
people.
Like I remember when I was on, on news radio,
um, the, the staff, everybody, uh, the crew, uh, the, uh, the, the cast rather,
everybody else besides me had a background in show business.
All I had to do, I only had a background in standup.
I never taken acting classes other than a few private classes.
They made me take when they gave me a development deal.
So I didn't understand the culture of acting.
And I remember I was on the set and they would read variety
or they would read the, you know, whatever those show Hollywood reporter.
And they would read about people getting deals.
And they would read about how well friends was doing and how well this is doing.
And they get so fucking mad.
And I, and I would, I would go, why are you reading that?
Like you're reading the devil's rag.
I go, you guys are upset.
I go, last time I checked, I'm on fucking TV.
I know.
I'm a 27 year old kid and I'm on TV.
Maybe cause that was such a well-written, well-respected show that didn't get
quite the shine that it should have.
I felt, I felt cause that was a really, really, really good show with like a
ridiculous level, talented cast.
And there's always those things, but that's something you have to learn in this
business that you just have to accept that.
Like, you know, I always equate a lot of things to like music that, you know,
you'll have like some pop star, you know,
some young, you know, guy or girl's going to come out prime of their life.
Good looking singing some, you know, bubblegum shit is always going to sell
more than this other thing.
And you just have to, you gotta be okay with that.
Yeah.
Cause it's like, if you want to sell that, yeah, you gotta, you gotta go do
that bubblegum shit.
And if you don't want to do that, don't fucking sit there and look at it and be
upset.
Comparison is a thief of joy.
It's a famous quote, but it's an awesome one.
It really is.
You can't.
I lived that for a while.
Yeah.
A lot of people do, especially show business.
Show business.
That's a common thing amongst comics.
It's a, you would see it, this, this gleam of jealousy, but I think also a part
of,
there's, there's good aspects of jealousy and that you can feel bad that you're
not getting
something that other people are getting.
And then it makes you work harder.
But then once you've achieved like a level of success where it's measurable,
like where
you're like, Hey, look, you're paying your bills.
You're going and you're doing shows and people coming to see you.
Like you're doing great.
Just concentrate on the work.
Then concentrate on the work.
Don't concentrate on being at your best.
Don't concentrate on how well this guy is doing and how well that.
I remember when Dane Cook was killing it.
There were so many haters and not just because of all the real reasons to be a
hater, but
also just because of his success was so astronomical.
I remember people would just fume thinking about Dane Cook selling out arenas.
It would drive them crazy.
And I remember thinking like, just concentrate on getting better.
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