Name: Bill Burr | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #231
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Bill Burr | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #231

I am, man, I'm nervous actually. Today's guest is my favorite comedian, living,
my favorite living comedian. And so I'm excited that he's here. He has a new
special on Netflix
called Paper Tiger. And he has a podcast called the Monday Morning Podcast. And
it also comes
out sometimes on Thursdays. He's one of a kind. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bill
Byrne.
Yeah, you'll see. You get too fucking. You gotta like once you, you know, it's
like no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then all of a sudden no's become yes out
here. And
then, then you just feel like, you know, the first time you get yeses, you go,
okay, to
everything. And then, then all of a sudden you just don't have any fucking time.
And then
you got to like dial it back and then try to find like quality.
But yeah, that's, I just had to, I just took some, did some dates off of the
books. I was,
I got a bunch of stress, man. I was starting to lose my mind. I thought.
Oh yeah. No, that's, it affects everybody differently. So I just, yeah, I just,
there's
a good thing too, is just lie and just say you're not available that week. I'm
not in
town.
Oh, I already had them sold and I had to take them down.
Oh, that, gee, I wouldn't put that on the podcast.
Yeah. They know. They all know. Yeah.
I still wouldn't do that.
Oh.
Cause you don't know, you don't need bookers looking at that. This guy's always,
he's a
fucking wild card.
Yeah. It was a man. It was a bummer. It was, some of it was a bummer, but some
of it, we
just moved the dates and I'll just feel better when I get there. But I was, I
was just like
experienced like a ton of stress, man. Burnt out. You know, I've been on the
same tour
for this hour for almost over a year now.
Dude, bands tour for like four years and then fucking go right back in the
studio, make another
one and keep going. You got to toughen up, man.
Yeah. You're right, huh?
You know, what do I do?
With a camouflage hat, looking like a fucking backwards guy, all tough and shit.
You can't
handle doing your hour again. I mean, come on, man. Suck it up.
Fuck, man. I think I need some blood transfusions or something. I really do. I
don't know what
happened to me.
No, but it's not bad if it, there's the other side too, where you're getting
run down and
you don't listen to it and then you get sick. So there's always that. Well,
work yourself
to death, which I've seen a few people do in this business, literally died.
Yeah.
So there's definitely, you know, well, you're in touch with your feelings. That's
good.
Yeah, man. I got too many of them. I think if you beat me open, just a lot of
feelings
sometimes would come out. Too many, you know? I think I'm, yeah, somehow I got
caught up
in some of that feeling generation, you know?
Oh.
Just too many feelings.
What year were you born?
Ninety, uh, 80.
80?
1980.
1980. So, oh yeah, you're the first millennial. The first year of millennials
was like 1980
or something like that.
I could see that.
Yeah. I thought they were all like, you had to be born like 2000 or later, but
it meant
like you were buying shit, I think. That's all they care about. You know, when,
when, when
do you finally have money that you can buy shit? And it's usually around 18, I
think. So
you would have been in 98. Maybe it's 82. I don't fucking know.
I think it's late. Yeah. 80, I think was still a little bit of like, there was
still more like
some, you know, heavy car doors. I remember a lot of that, you know, the car
doors that
would squeak and real heavy. You had to get your brother to help you close it.
You know,
I remember more station wagons, big violent fucking station wagons.
Oh, wagons are awesome. I love, I love a station wagon. I remember the motor
opening the car
and just seeing two pieces under there. You know, that thing with the, um,
where you put
the air filter in and mom would open that and go like this and then close it
back up.
Yeah. Air filter.
Yeah.
The air filter housing, I guess you'd call it.
Yeah, that was it.
Underneath it as your carburetor.
Mom would open that up and close it and then just fucking curse my dad. That
was it.
Every time.
Oh, I think she was probably fucking with the carburetor.
Yeah. I think she was trying to. My mom got an old cop car for a while and that
was pretty cool.
And we would drive around at night and pretend to be cops and shit. It would be
like a fun thing
we would do when we were kids. And it had one of those lights on the side, you
know, it had like
the little hand light out of the window.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
So you're supposed to take some of that shit. I know, you know.
Diplomat. Dodge Diplomat.
You got to take the badges off of some of the shit. I know you can't have like
police on the side.
And then I also don't think you can have the blue lights.
Mm-mm.
And in my state, I think you couldn't, you couldn't have those big searchlights
either
because they were afraid you were going to turn them on and blind other people
as they
were driving down the street.
Yeah.
Just knew that people would just be assholes.
Yeah.
If they did. I had a buddy of mine bought an old Massachusetts state trooper
bike and
it still had the blue lights on it. It was funny. He just thought it was the
lenses.
So he changed out the lenses and he didn't realize that the bulbs were also
blue.
So we had to take it apart. I think he actually left them on.
For a motorcycle?
Yeah.
Yeah. I never had a motorcycle, man.
What'd we have? We had some four wheelers. We had things that we just kind of
people put
together. We had a guy, when I lived in Tucson, they had a guy who had a school
bus. He cut
the top off of it and would drive it around. A full like convertible.
Was it the full size one?
Oh yeah.
Yeah. Now, did it have an option, especially in Arizona where you could maybe,
you know,
you ever see the Jeeps, they have like those tarp things you can put on the top.
So the
doors are off and all that. So you get the wind in your face, but you don't
roast. I would
think you'd want that in Arizona.
Sometimes he would put like a tarp over it at night and stuff. I think during
like maybe,
I guess the spring or something. But I think otherwise it was just, just one
option open,
you know? So just cruising.
At any point, can I promote that? I have a special out here.
Yeah.
I don't know where we're going with this. I have a special out on that's
streaming now
on Netflix called Paper Tiger.
Paper Tiger. That's right.
Dude, it was beautiful. Was it awesome to shoot at the, what's the name of the
place I
just forgot it?
Royal Albert Hall.
Royal Albert Hall.
No, it was amazing.
God.
Yeah. Because if, you know, even if I didn't know, you know, some of the people
that had
played there, the second you walked in there, you would know that some heavy
hitters had
been there. So it was pretty intimidating the first time. I did one show a year,
like about nine months before I did that one. That's what I was like, yeah, let's
shoot
one here. And then I, the first show that I did there, I was really in my head
a lot
where I was just like, you know.
So you went to kind of not, not run the hour, but you went to just get a feel
for the venue
first kind of?
I just wanted to do it.
Oh, you were just doing it.
And then when I did it, then the idea came about maybe do a special here. And
then I
talked to Mike Binder about it.
Yeah, I know Binder. Yeah.
And he, you know, we smoked cigars. So he's just like, he kind of did it, I
think, because
he wanted to smoke a cigar with me in London, which is as funny as that is. And
that's how
we ended up going over there. But I've since watched all these videos that I'm
kind of glad
I didn't know all these extra. I just knew Zeppelin was there. That was my big
thing.
Then people had the Beatles played there. I even saw, I think, George Michael,
they were
doing a thing for...
Oh, wow. AIDS or something?
No, for Linda McCartney.
Yeah. She lost her arm, right?
No, she died.
Yeah.
Sorry. Damn.
Yeah. She died.
She lost all. She lost it all.
She lost it all. Yeah. So they were doing a thing. And then he came out and
sang like
a Beatles song and then sang one of his songs and just like fucking crushed it.
And I was
just like, I'm glad I didn't watch that before. Because I mean, that guy's
watching.
That might have made you nervous. Yeah.
It looked amazing.
Well, yeah, because then it makes you feel like, all right, okay, he's doing
that. And Zeppelin's
doing that. And then I'm going to come in here with a bunch of dick and shit
jokes.
Yeah.
And I took a tour of the place years and years and years ago when I saw like
the London Philharmonic
was there.
Oh, yeah.
So I'm playing all classical music. So yeah, I definitely felt crass being
there the first
time. But then the second time, the pressure of the special, I got to have a
good set.
You can kind of fuck all that history. Let me just go out and make sure I have
a good
time here. So fortunately it worked out. And I think Binder, the way you shot
it, put
it over the top.
Yeah. Yeah. Some of the shots from the rear and stuff where you can just see,
it looks like
you're performing to like almost just an infinite amount of people at some
point.
Yeah. It's not as big as you would think, but it's very, it's big, but it's
like really
intimate. It's like the sound is perfect. It's, yeah, man, it's something else.
I'll say
that.
Susan Boyle has been there. Remember her? Who else? I bet they've had, it
seemed like, has
that place been around for a couple of hundred years?
Since the mid-1800s.
Oh, Jesus.
Yeah. Some guy, it was Prince Albert.
No, Prince Albert. Dude, I love how you just fucking reaching for shit here. It's
a couple
thousand years. It's been around Napoleon. That's an old guy.
Well.
Prince Albert, I believe. Prince Albert.
Winston Churchill?
I'm sure he did something there. He probably smoked a stick there and talked
about, talked
shit about the Germans. Yeah, no, a lot of people, a lot of people played there.
So.
It looked historic. That's what it looked like.
Yes. Yes. So I had to make sure when we shot it that we just didn't do the, you
know, the
wham, bam way that they shoot so many specials, which I have avoided my whole
career because
I've always tried to work with people that really, you know, wanted to make
something great.
Right.
Not just, you know, do the typical shots. I worked with Jake Harrison, my
previous three.
You told me about him. He's great.
Yeah. Yeah. And he's like a Pryor fan. And that shot that he does, that single
shot that
you see that he does in the, my previous three specials from the crowd is a nod
to Richard
Pryor live on the Sunset Strip. It's literally a shot just for directors. And
if any sort of
like Pryor fanatics would know, would catch it. Yeah. So I've always done that
because I haven't
liked how specials were shot for a long, long time, almost my whole career.
Like they would
just, you know, and I thought they look similar. They look bad. They look, uh,
there's nothing
that captures the, who the comic is at all. A lot of times the audio on the
audience is
so bad. It's like, why even have it?
Oh, the worst is when they put a whole bunch of them, when they would be doing
a whole bunch
of them and they just would crank out 10 of them and then they would be taking
crowd shots
from somebody else's set. It was just so gross. The whole thing was gross and
just not, it
was just all for cat, for money. The whole thing was, Oh, these are cheap to do.
Get
the comedian out there. He's already written the, you don't have to pay any
writers. He's
already written it. He's the performer. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, you know, and
then
take advantage of you. Well, I mean, I, I would, it's, they apply a, a very
efficient
model. That's a good way to put it. Yeah. That's how, that's how they look at
it. Like
they're not, yeah. Yeah. They're not thinking of it how we think of it. No. And
you don't
think, I didn't think of it at the first special I did. I was, I didn't know. I
didn't know
now. It's like, okay,