Name: Bill Burr _ My Show At The Forest Hills Club In Queens, New York!
Uploaded: 2022-08-13T16:00:11.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr _ My Show At The Forest Hills Club In Queens, New York!' from BURR'S FANDOM on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-13. Transcript available.

i had a crazy couple of days um i did quite arguably i think my favorite show
or venue i've ever done i was out and uh i keep forgetting what the because
they both begin with
f i was in forest hills queens at the original tennis club i thought i was the
one arthur ash
you know where they had the u.s open since i've been watching but this was the
original one
um that like they they had the u.s open there until 1977
which means uh it was probably the jimmy connors john mackenroe
uh chris everett before she was chris everett lloyd
um you know all of that type of stuff i don't know but it was um built in like
the 1920s or
something like the outs the whole outside of it was like made out of stone it
reminded me when i went
to the yale bowl or harvard stadium it was just sort of that era of um stadiums
it was incredible
and they had these amazing pictures uh of the beatles landing there this is on
one of their
earlier tours before they played shea stadium they did a gig there uh they
landed in this
fucking giant awkward looking helicopter and they had a picture of jimmy hendrix
there on stage
um but it was just a fucking magical place there was a whole bunch of people
there but i felt like
i was in front of i just felt like i was in like a comedy club and i uh keith
robinson went on first
and absolutely murdered i had josh adam meyers introduced been playing the um
what do you call it the uh the trailer for the movie i'm working on old dads
that did great and i
came out at like it was basically dusk and while i was up there the sun went
all the way down and um
i don't know i'm trying to think of it was just out of all the crazy places i
performed in new york city
i think that that's it i'm that's not even think it is it's my favorite venue
um so thank you to
everybody that came out there uh it was it was awesome and it gave me a big
boost of confidence for the uh
fenway gig i have to do when i go up to boston i'm hanging out here in new york
for a couple more days
and then i don't know worked my way up to boston and do that so anyway oh i
didn't get back to to
the uh to doing the show uh yeah so i worked with keith robinson which i haven't
done a road
gig with him in forever he came out and absolutely destroyed and uh you know it
kind of gave me
confidence that all right this is a great crowd this is going to be a good time
and uh but just like the
history there is incredible and um they have this thing where they got this
little garden thing in
the back and whoever performs there before you whatever artist was there leaves
something in the
garden for the next act and they make like a video and then you have to do it
for the the next act after
that and uh the guy who played it before me was ll cool j which was wild so
he left some something for me it was actually kind of funny um
so i mean i'm literally in queens and i'm playing a place
that ll cool j just played it was just the whole night
and i'm looking on the wall and seeing a picture of jimi hendrix playing there
it was fucking uh it was amazing and i had a bunch of friends that all came out
so many people throughout the other thing too i was just thinking like god look
at all the
fucking great people i've met throughout the years in this business um they're
all great people they're
all happy for me we all had a great hang after um thank you to everybody that
came out to that show
in queens thank you to the crew that worked there that told me about the place
um i mean you should have seen the uh i had like no idea this place even
existed i just thought the
whole time the u.s open was played where they where they play it now and um in
flushing right is that
flushing and but i had no idea that they played it in forest hills first and
that there's the whole
forest hills like tennis club you should have seen that that building i mean it
was
this is incredible i wanted to take a tour of that and had this really cool
like old school
just look about it slash almost reminded me of the hotel that was in the
shining which by the way
is a gorgeous hotel it's just that jack nicholson goes in there and loses his
mind if you can just
get past the movie it's a beautiful hotel and this seemed to be like the same
era of architecture and
i really really thought it was gorgeous um so i don't know who knows if i ever
get to play there
again i think i'm going to come in a day early and maybe take a tour of the
tennis club
and uh take a look a little bit more of the venue but um i can't even describe
you what it
was like to be on that stage with like it was dust so the sun was already over
the horizon but all
the colors were up in the sky it was unbelievable um and then it was kind of
funny with all of that beauty
i was up there doing jokes