Name: Joe Rogan Experience #909 - Bill Burr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #909 - Bill Burr' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-31. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #909 - Bill Burr

Let's clear our throats to start.
This stuff is good. We're live? That's it, fuckers. That's it.
I'm pushing the fucking computer away. I got throat code T.
That's right, you're ready to go.
Billy Burr.
Hey, how are you?
Netflix special, out today, out now.
That's right, walk your way out.
Shot at the Ryman Theater in Nashville, Tennessee.
That's where they used to do Grand Ole Opry. It's a beautiful place.
Yeah, and I had done it in 2014.
Vince Vaughn, Wild West, he has a comedy festival there.
I don't know if you've done it yet.
That's where I did it.
I did the Ryman there for the same reason.
Yeah, so I went out there, and everyone was like,
I don't know, it's the first place they did the Grand Ole Opry,
Elvis, Hank Williams, whatever, and you're like,
ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, another theater, and you walk in,
and you're like, oh, wait a minute.
It just had that magic in it, and I went out,
and I had this great set, and that's just,
you just stick it in the card catalog going,
all right, next time I have, I was like,
I just burned all this material,
so I've got to write a whole new hour and come back here,
and so next time I go to shoot something,
I think that was about a month before I did The Tabernacle
for my one previous to that,
so I already knew, which was cool,
before I wrote my next hour where I was going to shoot it.
Are you on a two-year schedule, you think?
Do you think that's the way to do it?
Roughly two years, but I have like a vibe of when,
like this one was overcooked,
and just because I got real busy with F is for Family,
I would have liked to have taped it like about six months earlier,
but it made it, I think it made it better or whatever,
but I would have, just as far as, you know what I mean,
it's kind of like in this business,
there's that thing, you don't want to be overexposed,
but then you don't want to wait too long,
so you got to try to,
and then that's also not like a,
oh, so-and-so's successful,
and he waits X amount of time,
so I'm going to do the exact thing,
it's really,
it's really like whatever you're trying to do,
so it's kind of different for every different people,
like those YouTube stars,
like their thing is all about just constantly putting out stuff,
where I think the road that I'm on is,
you know,
like right now I'm out there promoting this shit,
and then once it comes out,
and everybody's seen it,
and they're liking it,
and I'm done promoting it,
then I just sort of disappear until F is for Family comes out,
I'm kind of a big believer in that,
of, you know,
be out there when you got something that's going on,
don't just do shit to do shit,
I call that like extra TV,
hey, he's just here to be here,
and now he's over there,
there's that guy again,
because I find myself,
people that I'm fans of starting to hate people,
going like,
can't fucking get away from this fucking guy,
and then I'm thinking like,
do I actually hate this person,
or I don't know what it is,
but there's definitely a tipping point.
You know who's real smart about that?
Daniel Tosh,
he doesn't do shit,
he doesn't do a fucking thing,
he sells out everywhere he goes,
he's got millions of dollars,
so he's like,
I don't need to do shit,
I'm overexposed as it is,
my show's on constantly,
I'm not doing nothing,
he won't do interviews,
doesn't do podcasts.
Yeah,
Adam Sandler's another guy.
Yeah.
Adam Sandler doesn't do,
I don't,
I'm trying to think the last time I saw him promote a movie,
and yet I see all of his movies.
Yeah.
And then I just hear through the grapevine,
oh,
he signed some big thing with Netflix,
all his movies are going to be over there,
and I was like,
all right,
I guess I'm watching them over there,
and I've always just sort of like,
and it wasn't until,
I talked to somebody,
they're like,
yeah,
he doesn't do any press.
Good for him.
I might be wrong,
but from what I heard,
he does very little if he does any.
Yeah,
no,
he's smart,
he's got his core audience,
you know,
I watched Jack and Jill with my kids,
with my six-year-old,
my eight-year-old,
it is fucking hilarious,
when you watch a really silly movie
with a six-year-old and an eight-year-old,
and they're literally falling off the couch laughing.
That's awesome.
And you realize like,
oh,
he's making movies for little kids,
like people who get mad at it,
you know,
like,
oh,
those movies are stupid.
Not if you're six.
If you're six,
they're fucking awesome.
Or what if you just get in a stupid movie?
Yeah.
That's what I like.
I don't want to fucking think every time I go see him.
Sometimes I just want somebody to make me laugh.
Right.
I liked the Zohan one.
I loved that movie.
Yeah,
when his foot was coming up was hilarious.
Dude,
I remember when I was living with Bobby Kelly,
we watched Waterboy,
Bobby Boucher.
We watched that thing like fucking 900 times.
Like,
it was kind of like our go-to,
you know,
if we didn't have spots,
you try to kill a day.
We just,
we had the little VHS thing.
Yes.
Yes.
I probably saw that movie at least 30,
40 times.
Yeah.
And Happy Gilmore.
I saw Happy Gilmore at least 10 times.
That's a fucking great movie.
I forget the name of the last one,
the one he did with Spade,
when he was,
he worked at the bank in the supermarket.
Did you watch that one?
That was his first Netflix one.
Netflix one.
That came out like last year.
No,
I didn't see it.
My short term memory shot,
but that was,
that was a funny one too.
No,
his movies are,
they're always consistently that way.
You know,
that kind of,
that kind of movie.
No,
and I like that they're unapologetically silly.
Yeah.
Because,
you know,
he's a guy that gets a lot of shit
and he just doesn't give a shit.
It's like,
oh,
all right,
you didn't like this one?
Here's another one that made a zillion dollars.
Yeah.
Avoid the press.
Find your core audience.
Do what you got to do.
Yeah.
I like that,
what you're doing.
Like,
I like that sort of schedule.
I feel like,
uh,
that's kind of like,
oh,
the same amount of time that I do.
Around a year and a half,
I start thinking,
this thing's about done.
You know?
Right.
And a year in,
I feel like,
well,
I could kind of pull it off,
but not really.
It's not smart.
You don't want to do that.
You don't want to,
you take it out of the oven too soon,
then there's just like that,
ah,
you know?
Yeah.
The inside was still a little mushy.
Yeah.
It's just like,
you know,
I,
yeah,
you go out there
and you kick the shit out of them
every couple of years.
Hopefully,
hopefully they like it
and then,
then they'll come see you again
on your next tour.
Yeah.
And,
and that's all you owe them
and that's all they owe you.
Yeah.
It's just like,
I saw your last one.
You're still in my wheelhouse
of people I'm going to go see.
But the second you fuck up,
I'm not going to go see you.
And you can't ask,
you can't ask fans
to do any more than that.
No.
Well,
what about the other stuff I did
that didn't suck?
It's like,
no,
no,
no.
Yeah,
but your last thing sucked
and there's too much,
too much unbelievable stuff
being put out.
So you got to kind of
try and keep up.
Yeah.
Ari Shafir had a real good point
about that too.
He said that at,
you know,
one point in time,
comedians used to have,
they used to do a special
and it was like
their best special,
like an HBO special,
and then they would slide off.
They would all slide off,
every one of them.
Like,
Kinnison's the worst.
Like,
Kinnison,
you watch Kinnison's
first special
and then you watch,
like,
listen to Louder Than Hell,
that cassette
and watch his first HBO special.
Fucking genius.
Just balls out.
And if you don't get it,
I understand because
it's not 1986 anymore,
but if you were in 1986
and you saw that,
you would have been blown away.
You would have been,
like,
in the presence of greatness.
No,
he's on my Mount Rushmore,
that guy.
Me too.
Me too.
But then,
the stuff after that
was dog shit.
It got worse
and worse and worse.
He kind of,
as far as I can,
just,
I mean,
I never met the guy,
but just as far as
watching him as a fan,
he kind of seemed like
he stepped in every single
pitfall
of being,
of getting some fame.
Yep.
Everything,
like,
not trying as hard.
Coke,
girls.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Showing up late to shit.
Hanging out with Bon Jovi.
Getting a bad reputation.
No,
Motley Crue.
It wasn't Bon Jovi.
Bon Jovi too.
Bon Jovi,
yeah,
it was one of his early specials.
Like,
Bon Jovi was on
the beginning of his special.
I just remember
he drove Motley Crue
to the whiskey
for the Kickstart My Heart video.
Oh,
that's right.
That's right.
I'm a child of the 80s,
dude.
Oh,
that's a great video.
That fucking Kickstart My Heart
still to this day
when that comes out
at the gym,
I get fired up.
Oh,
it's a great song.
It's a great fucking song.
The dialogue in the beginning
is brutal though.
He goes,
here we are.
He gets something like,
this is where it all began.
And the guy goes,
and then some of the car goes,
yeah.
Then he goes,
home sweet home.
And then they all go,
yeah.
Oh God.
Pull that up.
Pull that up,
Jamie.
Give me some volume.
Dude,
it was the 80s though.
It was,
home sweet home.
Yeah.
This is where I'll be going.
Yeah.
Kinison's driving.
Yeah,
Kinison's driving.
But Tommy Lee's drums in this
are fucking amazing,
man.
Wow.
You forget how long
these guys have been around,
how long Tommy Lee's been around.
How is it?
How are his arms not falling off?
Give me a little volume on that,
Jamie.
I want to hear this.
Fuck yeah.
This is the best treadmill song
of all time.
If you're on the fucking treadmill.
That you did it?
It's a fucking great song
for working out,
man.
I think this is the best song ever.
I played just at the comedy jam
with Josh and Rose.
Did you really?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, wow.
I can't tell you,
dude,
trying to keep the fucking
eighth notes on the snare drum.
I thought your arm falling off.
That was a bitch.
You were explaining to me
something before the podcast started.
I wanted you to talk about it
on the podcast
because you were talking
about drum technique
and you had like
a slow motion video
of how you do it
and you're kind of letting
the stick do
a lot of the work.
Yeah,
I got this great teacher,
Dave Eilich,
who plays with everybody
from Mars Volta
to like Miley Cyrus.
So whatever your gig is,
like total progressive,
crazy,
I can't even,
you know,
some of the music he's played,
I don't even know
where one is
and then he can also
just do the straight
pop tour or whatever
but his technique
is incredible
because the first time
I saw him play,
he's got this drum cam.
I should show it to you.
Literally,
I'm looking at it
and with,
you know,
layman's eyes,
I was like,
how is this guy's arms
not falling off
but his technique,
you know,
as I've,
you know,
gone and taken lessons
for well over a year
with him,
now I can watch it
on a different level
as far as like
his technique is sick
so he's not
fucking his arms up
and everything.
He's moving his arms,
giving people the show
but like it's hard to explain
like,
first of all,
I'm not a professional drummer
but it's also hard to explain
like over a podcast
but like he's,
yeah,
it's letting the stick
do the work
and he kind of equated it
to like if you're like
dribbling like a ball
or something like that
or maybe it was somebody else.
If you dribble a basketball,
it's like every time
it comes up to your hand,
once you get it going,
you're not slamming it
back down to the floor,
you're just sort of
controlling the rebound.
has something sorted to do,
there it is.
This is the one.
If you play,
if you turn up the volume,
this is just going to bore
the shit out of people.
Let's do a fucking drum track.
No, no, no, it's not.
You see it in his hands,
how loose his hands are.
See when he just opens his hand
like that?
He's getting,
you know,
this guy's a fucking animal, man.
You love drumming, huh?
You're fucking
really deep into this shit.
It's literally,
I tried therapy,
I tried talking to people and shit
and it's just like,
yeah, I only get so far
but like that stuff
like just totally clears my head
and I like it
becaus