Name: Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age | Thursday Afternoon MMP 6-19-25 | Bill Burr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age | Thursday Afternoon MMP 6-19-25 | Bill Burr' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-19. Transcript available.

Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age | Thursday Afternoon MMP 6-19-25 | Bill Burr

hey what's going on it's bill bird it's time for the thursday afternoon just
before friday
monday morning podcast and i'm just checking in on you it's too early for me to
scream
like i usually do and it's look at this it's videotaped so you know what that
means
we're using the latest camcorders here um at the uh the studio here that means
i have a very
special guest only special guests get videotaped if they're regular they're
regular no it's audio
only uh my guest today is the front man for arguably the greatest rock band of
the last 25 years in my
opinion mr josh homie from queens of the stone age under the table under that's
how it's done payola
and he has a new uh amazing documentary uh out of the under the catacombs alive
alive alive alive in
the catacombs which uh i've been to paris a couple of times and i had no idea
that that was underneath
um it's actually 200 miles of that 200 miles on in the sewer system essentially
they ran out of
places to bury people they just put them underneath there it was a coal mine
and it's all skulls and
bones and femurs all of that stuff sticking out of the walls and josh goes what
a wonderful place
i love it to me a couple throw pillows but the thing about it is is what you
were going through
yourself medically you all you were kind of at death's door um when you were uh
i don't know how to go
into this it's just jump in it's gorgeous it's i'm a sucker for uh black and
white when done right
not pretentiously like it means you're playing acoustic going into electric for
your ballad yeah
that's how it was done in the 80s but the way that you guys did it um and then
cutting back and
forth the footage of you guys on tour um one of my favorite things uh is seeing
a band right before
they're going on stage i think that's the best if i i think that's the very
best time it's got to be the
same for walking on stage for you it's that moment the lights go out the intro
music is playing the
crowd goes wild and for one second everything is perfect everyone's for one
second you're like
i have no business doing this and hey how's everybody doing no that's the
happiest moment for
sure it's like nothing bad has happened yet you know yeah but i also feel like
you can see the
psychology of the band everything from they're going to break up the second
this show is done
this is mid-tour this is beginning the tour this is the end of the tour and you
guys all looked like
uh you guys always looked really psyched to uh yeah we play and i always
whenever you guys are around
each other you know you guys all have like your jokes and you get along like i
don't know if that's
just from years of being on the road but the vibe well some bands don't get
along at all oh yeah and
and famously and i thought i find that interesting too but we we actually get
along so we we vacation
together which is a strange thing to take it off do you have the stills if you
dump the water on
on on john lotioning up john actually from people magazine from afar you know
just lotioning him up no
it's it's it's hard enough to get along with one other person like i i when i
was coming up and radio was
still the big thing the amount of times that i i did morning radio to promote
whatever comedy club
i was at in the morning show is so and so and so and so and you'd go in there
and they'd be like oh
yeah hey what's going on and they would be talking and vibing and then they
would go to commercial
and you quickly kind of realized they didn't speak or look at each other and
they were sort of talking
to each other through you and you're like oh this is this is a loveless
marriage yeah well there's a
certain amount too that we see you spend so much time together that uh it would
seem natural that
you just go your separate ways but we just i think it's because each member
came at a different
time and so you're slowly finding the right puzzle piece and locking it in
right and and and and it's
communication bill it is this is what i've learned you just have to say in a
positive way well how did
the i the whole idea um when did that come about i know just what i know about
you the second you saw
those skulls and bones you're like oh yeah i i gotta play that gig the sewers
of paris with dead bodies
i was born to do this well it actually i remember learning about the catacombs
in a book when i was
like eight you know and and just being fascinated just that it seems so taboo
like you're stacking
bodies and you're doing you know geometric designs with them at first i thought
are you allowed to do
that you know it seems like a bit of a dick move until you see it and it walks
the line of respect
and artful and then sort of serial killer necrophiliac like what what are you
doing gary oh i'm just
stacking them you know and it's like there's heart done into hearts and stuff
like that where it's
like if you love your job you never work again down there juggling skulls what
are you doing i'm on
break doing a little soft shoe with a femur but it is like it's typical paris
where it's like
everything's art even that is gorgeous even that is gorgeous so well we're all
gonna deal with it too
so i i think so much of the time here you're you never like don't think about
death let's talk about
do you want to have you seen that new mission impossible movie instead it's
just and uh i mean
i had no way of knowing that i would be sort of dealing on death's door myself
and which made it
really strange to be there how long did uh i don't know if you want to get into
what the i mean not
too deep but yeah okay but but a little bit i i was you know it made it really
intense like doctors
were telling you to get off the road um they didn't know what i had so they
were they were sort of
giving me advice based on being incorrect uh and and so of course they were
like you know play it play
it safe but everyone cancels man i everyone everyone cancels it it drives me
crazy and i by the time we
got to paris i knew the tour was over the band knew that i couldn't go any
further i just wanted it so
bad we've been trying to put it together for 20 years you know and almost like
excuse me almost
you've wanted to play that gig for 20 years i've been trying to put it together
for 20 years
it would get close and then it would go away and it was almost like what would
make it go
schedules or was paris just like hey you know yeah ask him and then you go ask
someone else and be
like ask her you know just get in the run around and you give up for a second
and then you know it
would it would be like paris is on the on the on the tour schedule and i would
say well time to take
another run at this you know and i almost stopped believing that it would be
possible until we met
this guy that they had this show called album of the week that where you just
play your record on
television there and which is a novel idea um but he played cupid and sort of
got us in the right
hands finally and but i knew it would go away if we didn't do it and i just
thought it physically
hurt but that's gonna go away that's gonna go away right and but this will last
hopefully forever
you know and i i and and if i'm honest it made it cooler having to go through
something because
it's like are you gonna do it or not are you gonna are you gonna quit or not
right and i felt good
about i honestly felt like no i'm gonna i can do this it made me it made me
feel like i was it added
a layer of importance to it that i and that i'm gonna say enjoyed but i i i was
i was proud to to
so when you finally get on i came say on stage when you get under the
underground underground underground
seriously in the uh the sewer system and the show is actually happening
something but people
have told me like when i'm gonna go do something they always go make sure you
take it in make sure
you enjoy it and i'm always jealous because i feel like with music you can kind
of do that when
someone else is taking a solo you can kind of strum along and look where like
comedy is like i can't
take it in because i have to okay i made you laugh now i i got i got to keep
the momentum but i i would
say that there's got there's certainly there's many moments and maybe you
almost don't realize them
because you're so in it where you're not thinking about anything else and you're
not thinking about
the past the future you're just there right in the center of your feet and it's
happening and i like
that a lot i like that feeling of everything else is chased away and i i don't
i don't think you do
that naturally do you have to play a game with yourself mentally like is the
grind of the road
well you know you're it's it's a bit like you know dodgeball sometimes i get
hit with it and
sometimes i i don't you know yes and but i'm always trying to be in the moment
like that and i
i think because of what was going on i was so focused plus we did we did i
might not get out
of these i might well i might be part of this wall i mean i started saying
wouldn't it be ironic if
something if this really took a bad there was one moment there's one moment we
have the song
villains of circumstance it was the third song we did and there's one moment
and they actually
caught it in the doc part where i i got such a searing pain i was like excuse
me i i'm gonna take
take a minute and i had to get up and i thought oh my god i'm gonna i started
sweating and i was like
i can't do this i'm gonna have to tell everyone we're gonna go can you do that
can you tell
everyone to go what would they say this i'm like having this dialogue and and
it hurt so bad it was
so specific and acute and uh you almost became that short list of performers
who died on stage
but what a great way to go i mean if you had to i also would do okay so what
would be your top three
it's your last laugh because people i don't know about now you get the last
laugh well back when
pratfalls were so common yeah you drop dead as a comedian on stage back in the
day people thought oh
remember the english what was the english guy that used to wear the fez yes i
saw that the other day
oh my god crazy and everyone he has a massive coronary everyone thinks he's
joking and then
he's going like and they're going like a second so they're like laughing and
then he just kind of
no i don't think he topples over he kind of he kind of crumpled it's like when
they implode a
building and they fuck up and like the bottom goes it just sort of sits there
to the side
all right oh that's fucked well it's gonna be dark dude okay well then what's
the top what's the top
i'll tell you my top three ways to go i i i think i think on stage would be you
know a very poetic
one so i'd have to throw that in there the other one i'm okay with a nuclear
blast because it i you
know you're with your family you all go at the same time you hope
well i'm i used to always picture that i'm by myself in like a hotel room it's
like
kojak rerun you know at a motel six no i'm this is in my perfect world right
and it probably would
look fucking amazing because you'd just be you'd say to yourself wow look at
that and then that hot
icy wind i love that it's hot and icy that hot wind you know just blows you
down right now
you're doing you're doing you're doing a promo well what was that thing did you
see that on the
internet where this these people were filming this explosion and it just kept
getting bigger and
bigger so they're doing the whole whoa whoa whoa and then it keeps and then it's
like we got to get
the fuck out of here what i don't know what it was you were been watching such
the same stuff oh my god
it is we're i think because we're friends they just send the same shit so we
have something to
talk about bill says yeah and this whole relationship doesn't crumble like the
bomb footage that we were
watching our whole relationship is just the common things we watched on
instagram did you see the
hyena get eaten by i why as a matter of fact i did some nerd yeah well what
would would you have a
what would be in your list is t