Name: Donnell Rawlings on Bill Burr | w/Theo Von
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T16:00:31.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Donnell Rawlings on Bill Burr | w/Theo Von' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Donnell Rawlings on Bill Burr | w/Theo Von' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-28. Transcript available.

When I was doing, when we were doing Chappelle's show, at the time, Bill Burr
was bubbling.
Bill Burr was bubbling.
He wasn't-
Damn, say that 10 times fast, huh?
No, the reason why I'm saying that, because it's no disrespect, he was bubbling.
Yeah, yeah.
You saw him in the club, you was like, you go to see certain clubs, and you're
like this,
this motherfucker's gonna blow.
This motherfucker's gonna blow.
But he didn't have the TV and all that, but you knew it was coming.
Right.
And we were doing Chappelle's show.
We were making money in Chappelle's show, but not a lot of money.
We needed a tour.
I came up with the idea of doing an I'm Rich Bitch Tour.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
And the Rich Bitch Tour, the two draws at the time were me and Charlie.
And I could have ran with that.
I could have went with somebody local, but I said, nah, Bill Burr is an animal.
Let's not just do a show of people coming for the novelty of the show.
Yeah.
Let's give them a show where this show is fire from beginning to the end.
And that's what we had, the I'm Rich Bitch Tour.
I think this is the first time Bill Burr was-
We ran this shit for like a year and a half.
Charlie Murphy with MC.
Bill Burr, you know, you know, this is funny.
Bill Burr was a feature.
Wow.
And I was headlining.
And I'm telling you, you know, you're talking about no excuses.
Imagine going on every night for a year behind Bill Burr.
Fuck that.
There was no day you could take off.
Yeah.
You didn't have a, you go out and party, get all fucked up.
You got a hangover.
The next day, guess what's going to happen?
And this happened to me a couple of times.
Like, yeah, he was funny, but that white boy, you know what I'm saying?
And the point I'm making is he knew his future because me and Charlie was on, I'm
rich with
Charlie Murphy.
All that shit.
It was just, it was pandemonium.
But Bill Burr was the one with the comment cards.
You know what I'm saying?
Filling them out.
The emails.
I'm like, yo, you worrying about that email shit?
Nigga, people going to be coming to see us forever.
He was a dude that was on the email card and he started building that base.
He started building that base.
And then when you start building that base, people start riding with you.
And then you win like comedian of the year in the Montreal Comedy Festival.
You're going to build to that point.
He knew what he wanted early on.
A lot of people don't.
Kevin Hart.
As much as people want to talk shit about Kevin Hart.
Kevin Hart was the same situation.
Kevin Hart was always down with whatever the newest thing was, was MySpace.
I remember Kevin Hart had 60,000 followers on Twitter.
And he was trying to be like, yo, I can get you some followers.
Now that dude's out of, he's just on another level.
He's a rock star.
But he planted that.
And like you were saying about waiting for the networks, they didn't wait.
Those people didn't wait.
So by the time the networks got caught up to them, they was already ready.
They was already ready.
You know what I'm saying?
And that's what you said is important.
You know what I'm saying?
A lot of times in this business, we want to swing for the gate all the time.
Sometimes a bass hit is good.
Sometimes a bun is good.
But you got to know that.
And that's what separates the different people.
Now you look at Bill Burr.
I look at Bill Burr 13 years ago.
He's the best.
He was opening on our show.
And now this dude's doing Madison Square Garden.
And here's another thing, how stuff's supposed to inspire you.
I see that.
I know how funny he is.
But it gives you a sense of know that you're from a place where it could happen.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
You look at Bill Burr.
He's like, this dude, we were doing the same club.
It could happen.
Who's going to put the work in?
Wow.
You know what's crazy is my sister can't even read.
But what does it have to do with us right now?
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