Name: Bill Burr on His Visit To Boston And His Upcoming Fenway Park Show!
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr on His Visit To Boston And His Upcoming Fenway Park Show!' from BURR'S FANDOM on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-17. Transcript available.

on vacation here. I'm not really on vacation because I have the biggest gig of
my fucking
life in six days. Six, five, four, three. It's just sitting here with the damn
thing
like just hanging over my head. I just want to go do the fucking show. Jesus
Christ. It's
so funny too. It's like the last day of my vacation. So my whole vacation, I
can't fucking
relax because I got this giant gig just fucking sitting there. I feel like in
between the
AFC championship game and the Super Bowl when they used to have a two-week
break. I don't
know if they still have that. They go back and forth. You have that one Sunday
where you
just don't play. That's what I feel like right now where it's just like, I know
it's going
to go great, but I'm sick of fucking waiting to do it. Let's just fucking.
Let's just do it. You know? So I think I've been a little on edge here, even
though I've
been having it. So, yeah. So I spent a couple days here. As you can tell, I'm
fucking on edge
here. I just really just want to do this fucking show. I just want to do the
show. Just do
the fucking show. All right? Instead of like, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
But in the
meantime, I've been having a great time. You know, we found this great coffee
shop that has an
absolutely incredible espresso up here. It had amazing pastries and breakfasts.
You know, they
have like fucking, on the weekend, they have like lamb hash or whatever. I didn't
try it because I'm
trying not to be a fat fuck for this gig. But, you know, really nice place.
Like one of those food
network kind of places. You know? So we're standing there. It was like Saturday.
So, you
know, it was a little bit of a line. And it was moving or whatever. But, you
know, so there's a
couple behind us. And the woman says to the boyfriend, it's just like, oh, man,
it's kind
of a line here. You want to go someplace else? What do you think? You want to
go, go someplace
else? And he's like, yeah, this place is a fucking shit show. It's like, it's
not a shit
show. They're not fucking up the orders. Nobody's screaming and yelling. There's
just a line that
that, like, that alone makes it a shit show. It's a fucking shit show. A shit
show? It's
too crowded. I don't want to wait. I get that. But it's not a shit show. It was
a very well
run fucking restaurant. And you didn't want to wait for eight people to order
whatever the
fuck it is that you want to fucking order. So now, dude, it's a fucking shit
show. Dude,
the post office is a fucking shit show. All right. Going to the mall over
Christmas is
a fucking shit show. That's a shit show. Standing in line with eight people in
front of you with
fucking every option you could possibly ever want for breakfast. I mean, dude,
they had
it all. Avocado toast, fucking French toast, all the fucking toast. Any fucking
pancake,
you want. I mean, it was fucking Eden is where the hell you were at. This guy
was a fucking
shit show. Um, anyway, um, none of this has to do with anything other than the
fact that
I just want to fucking, you know, I just want to do this fucking shit. Yeah. So
I'm back
up here. I actually did a spot at Nick's Comedy Stop. Uh, I got to work with
the great Mike Donovan,
one of my favorite Boston standup comics and somebody that I learned so much
from when I would open for
him way back in the day. Um, particularly, uh, his use of the microphone and he
was really cognizant
cognizant of when he was being loud and taking the microphone away. And he had
all these different
little subtle tricks that would add to what it was that he was doing on stage.
And he used to do this
great, um, impression of the local, uh, play-by-play announcer for the, uh,
Boston Celtics, the late
great Johnny Most. And, uh, he almost hold like the microphone sideways and cup
his hand over it and
would just do like this dead on Johnny Most, uh, impression. But anyway, he was,
um, he was headlining.
My son went down and I opened for him, um, at the place where I started 30
years before.
And, uh, same goddamn place. They've, they've redone it a little bit, but it's
just still the
same place. And every time I walk in there, I expect to see the late great
Bobby Flank,
like, Hey kid, shut that fucking door. That's what he always say. Hey, Bill,
Bill, shut that
fucking door. Do me a favor. Shut that fucking door. That was like his catch,
catchphrase. Shut
that fucking door. And then when you'd go up the stairs and he'd make like the
two turns.
And as I come up there, I always expect to see the late great Kevin Knox
standing there looking at the
lineup with the pen in his hand and the piece of paper, you know, when his
fucking Braveheart level
mullet that he had and then walking in and looking to the left and seeing those
four red shares that
would have like Patrice, Dane, Bobby Kelly, someone else that every time I have
that exact memory and,
um, yeah, but I go in there and obviously nobody's there, which is weird. But
then I go on stage and
it's still the same, the same room. So I went up, I had a good time. I tried
out some of the Boston
stories that I, uh, yeah, I might tell the Fenway gig. If that gig gig ever
happens.
Um, I still can't believe I'm going to do stand up there. It's going to be
fucking amazing.
And I'm, I just, I'm chomping at the bit here, people. I could literally, I
swear to God,
I could just, there's a dresser here. I could just fucking know off one of the
goddamn handles
here. I'm just like, let's fucking go. Um, anyway, I don't, I gotta, I gotta be
careful
with that energy because my wife's going to be like, what's going on with you?
Come on,
we're on vacation. Uh, but she's right. She's right. So, um, I threw my back
out, walking up some
stairs, walking up government center, coming back from the North end. Um, I
went over there. I, uh,
smoked a cigar. It's whatever. I never can remember the name of that because it's
such a crazy fucking
name. Is it Stanza? What the hell's the name of the place? I'm going to get it.
I'm going to get
it done right now. All right. Hang on a second. Cigar bar North end. Stanza di
cigari. That's
what it is. I went down there, smoked a cigar and just shot the shit with some
fucking hilarious
people. It's Italian chick from Austin, Texas who didn't know how to cook,
which I thought was
hilarious. My car is an Italian end up in Texas. And she was talking about how
her dad got transferred
down there or something like that. I'm like, you don't know how to cook. She's
like, no, she's like,
my dad can cook. I'm like, he never taught you. He's like, no. They go, all
right. What part of
Texas? I go, I love Texas. What part of Texas are you in? She's like, Austin. I
went, ugh.
She goes, why? She goes, what part of Texas do you like? I go, Dallas. She goes,
Dallas. She goes,
it's all just fucking phony and fake and blah, blah, blah. I go, that's what I
love about Dallas.
There's an honesty. You know, they're just trying to fucking, we're in Texas.
Everything's bigger.
Look how big my fucking bed is, right? There's just something funny about that
as opposed to fucking
Austin, Texas was a bunch of white people pretending they have money problems.
Anyway, I was just teasing. I don't know shit about Texas, but
this ended up, you know, it was just an afternoon crowd. And then I got my
place where I go to get my
sandwiches. And there's a bakery right next door to it. It's not on that main
drag, whatever the street name
is, that they've turned into a one-way street for whatever fucking reason. They
just turned it into
like a one-way street. They just, and they didn't make it a two-way one-way.
They just shut down the
other lane. I don't know who comes up with that shit. It's like, it's totally
congested. Let's just
make it impossible now. And then they always think that people are going to
choose public transportation,
and they just don't. It's like that stupid fucking HOV lane. Nobody uses it.
It's motorcycles and a couple of fucking old ladies on the way to some lunchtime
special.
And everybody else is just jammed up in this other lane. No one has ever been
like,
hey, you know what? I think I'm going to start going to fucking work with my
friend. Nobody does it.
Nobody, Bill? I don't know. Not enough. So I was coming back from the North End,
walking back over
to my hotel, and I was going up the stairs at Government Center, and I ended up
throwing out
my back. It's finally better after like two days. I'll tell you what's stupid
is when you throw out
your back and somebody wants to give you a leave or Tylenol, and it's like,
what? So it can mask the
symptoms that I actually threw out my back, and I can fuck up my liver in the
process. Or I can sit
here and stretch and work it out. Hey, work it out, okay, baby? All right. So
anyway, that was kind of
my trip out here to Massachusetts so far. I'm going to hang with the family,
you know, have a good time
and all that type of stuff. And then I'm going to try to run out and do spots
here or there so my axe
stays tight. Oh, look who it is. The lovely Nia. Hey, how funny. I was joking
about that guy. Oh, this
place is a fucking shit show. So whatever. But I am on vacation, man. And I got
to go play with my
kids. And I'm getting ready for Sunday. I'm just sitting here like on pins and
needles. And then the
next moment, it's like it's not even happening. So I knew this was going to
happen because for months
people going, are you stressing out about this gig? I'm like, no, I'm not even
thinking about it. I'm
just working on my act. I'm pretending like it's not even happening. So I think,
uh, I'll have one
little minor freak out. I'll get past that. And then I go up Sunday and it's
going to be fucking
awesome. And, uh, and when that shows over, that's when my vacation begins. I'm
telling you that right
fucking now. All right. I don't mean that in a bad way. I'm obviously going to
have a great
fucking time, but, uh, it is what it is. Right. Um, and with that, I'm going to
go play with