Name: Bill Burr Went Down New-York's Memory Lane Watching 'Taxi Driver'!
Uploaded: 2022-08-27T00:22:05.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr Went Down New-York's Memory Lane Watching 'Taxi Driver'!' from BURR'S FANDOM on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-27. Transcript available.

so when i was up here in toronto um up meaning north i actually i went on netflix
and i and i
started to watch taxi driver and it's been taking me like two days to get
through the movie because
i've now become fascinated with every location um because it's actually the new
york that i first
saw like the first time i went to new york was in the early 70s if you can
believe it
my parents had my dad had some sort of business or something and we went down
there
uh i mean the world trade center was probably just finished i want to say it
was like 1973 maybe
i was like you know four or five years old and i came down here and it was all
the like the big cars
the old school uh you know taxi cabs and i was just thinking you know that's
like
you know jimmy coon and mickey featherstone were running wild in hell's kitchen
and
um the five families were dealing with these upstarts i mean all of that was
like starting to
happen and uh i think mickey spillane at that point i think had i think he got
whacked i can't remember
but um john gaudy was on his way up george steinbrenner had just bought the yankees
and
they were going to redo yankee stadium and the new york yankees were going to
play in shea stadium for
two years um that's when they took that iconic really sad photo of i always
thought of joe dimaggio
standing in yankee stadium and behind it they were remodeling it um and it was
just really like the
end of an era uh joe namath at that point might have been on the rams or on his
way to the rams i can't remember
um but he's definitely you know it was a couple of knee operations in
the big bad bruins with the big bad bruins the flyers were coming it's so nuts
to think about all
that and brad park had a rivalry with bobby york that's the new york i was in
it was right around
the time when zeppelin played the song remains the same i actually went to new
york so i ended up
finding this you know incredible uh and probably martin scorsese was probably
just shooting main streets
right around right around that time and i was actually there if you can believe
it
so um that's not why if you guys could why would you believe it for me it was
nuts i just wish i
could remember some you know it so i only have like few little snapshot
memories of it so um
what was my point here oh my point was i ended up you know through looking at
the locations of uh
taxi driver one of the things that he shows is this was this classic bar called
the terminal bar
which was across the street from the port authority and it was known as the
toughest bar in new york
city had a bunch of lunatic irish guys in there like fights all the time and
then over time it gradually
became a gay bar particularly with uh black men and this bartender worked there
for 10 years
and he just took these amazing close-up photos black and white photos of all
the regulars
and the bar ended up closing in 1982
and the bartender's like nephew or something thought the photos were
fascinating and he interviewed the
guy and it's such an amazing 22-minute documentary um just look up document
terminal bar documentary
i think that's i forget the name of it um it's probably just called the
terminal bar i can't remember
but i watched this documentary what's really amazing especially if you're an
aspiring filmmaker and you
don't have a lot of money if you see what they do with just music and movement
of the camera and those photos
in one interview what they make i mean it's a it's a masterpiece 22 minutes it's
absolutely incredible
and then also it gives you a uh a glimpse into where new york was like here's
another thing too i was in
new york when david berkowitz was still walking around how nuts is that he's
start to think of some of that
shit you know how crazy that was john levin lennon was still alive i mean it
was a fucking like that
part of new york you know and also if i think of the music like probably cbgb's
was just taking off
like all of that crazy shit was going on and and i was somehow in that city
when all of that
shit was happening i just think that that's amazing um and it's sort of my
favorite time
of new york of new york city to me is the 1970s even though you know the city
was going bankrupt
and all of that type there was something about it um in the movies and shit
that they made back
then that i love but you should check out this documentary uh just look up the
terminal bar
documentary it's only like 20 25 minutes long um but if you just want to catch
a glimpse of what
new york was like back then or like i said if you're aspiring filmmaker um you
should uh