Name: "More Comedians Should Do Broadway!" | Bill Burr & Carol Leifer
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Watch the stand-up comedy video '"More Comedians Should Do Broadway!" | Bill Burr & Carol Leifer' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-24. Transcript available.

By the way, I also want to thank you.
When you came out, you and Sandra Bernhardt came out.
Yes.
To Glengarry Glen Ross.
Yeah.
Was one of my favorite nights to have two legendary comedians.
You guys don't understand, you know, to come out and have you guys say that I
did a good job.
Oh, my God.
You were amazing, Bill.
I can't believe.
I mean, movies is one thing, but for a comedian like you to do.
They should have more comedians.
It's due to Broadway because it's right in our wheelhouse.
The only thing that was different.
Well, because you're used to like, you know, whenever you do stand up, they say,
oh, it's
you up there all by yourself.
It's like, no, it isn't.
It's me and the crowd.
And the crowd.
Yeah.
But you're with other actors.
That's the addition.
That's the addition.
Oh, that would freak me out.
So it's still, you'd figure it out quick.
You would figure it out quick.
Wow.
So what it is, is they, the crowd tells you to speed up or slow down.
Or if you're gone too far.
Really?
They're telling you that.
Wow.
Yeah.
There's all kinds of information.
It's like some of the overseas gigs that I've done.
I learn, I could be in that fucking city for a week talking to locals and stuff.
And I'll learn a few things.
But when I go on stage for an hour, what they laugh at, how they laugh at it, I
learn more
in that hour than I would having a cup of coffee with their fucking prime
minister.
Right.
Because you get a general, because that's the people.
Right.
I didn't know you could feel that, though, on Broadway doing, you know, a
scripted whole
hour and a half.
But we did like 128 shows.
So I started to know when like, oh, there's a lot of foreigners in this.
This feels like a foreigner crowd.
Oh, wow.
And then we'd get out there and there would be people like, you know, we came
in from Australia.
Oh, we're here from Korea.
You know, we just came in from Hong Kong.
Like there was people coming in.
Yeah.
Like that, you know, Glengarry is, you know, is a huge movie that obviously, I
guess, went
international.
So we would have, and what I learned on those nights, because the first few
nights when there
was a lot of foreigners in the crowd, I would get in my head and think like, oh,
I suck
tonight.
I suck tonight.
But then when we would go out to sign the playbills.
Yeah.
Finally got that right.
I used to call them the pamphlets, the playbills.
Yeah.
They would be out there like, oh my God, we, you know, we love this show.
Oh my God.
And I was just like, oh, they're, they're, you know, not Australia, but like if
someone's
coming from a country in Asia, this is a second language.
Right.
So they're like, they're not laughing because they don't want to miss something
that they're,
depending on how good their English is.
They're that much more appreciative, I would think.
Yeah.
But I also got to do the scene with Michael McKeon.
Yes.
And he's one of the most generous actors and the greatest listener I think I've
ever been
with, doing a scene with.
And what I loved about him, it was, he'd just been doing it so long that it was
just,
it's a part of his being.
Like the last night we were there, he played guitar and sang a few songs for us.
Oh, wow.
And, oh yeah, we, we, the cast was awesome.
Like we all, we all bonded.
Yeah.
I could feel that backstage.
Yeah.
We all bonded and hung out.
Yeah.
And I think it was him saying goodbye because he wasn't going to the after, you
know, he
was just like, I'm not going to that crap.
You know, it was kind of his saying goodbye to everybody.
Yeah.
And like, just watching the way that he played and how the guitar seemed like a
part of him
and it was like effortless, like he truly is like an artist, was, was, was my,
one of
my favorite, other than getting to know him and work with him, one of my
favorite things
about doing that play with him was kind of getting to know the artist in him
and seeing
how much passion he had, he still has for it.
Like we used to ride down in the elevator every night and the whole cast
elevator, we'd be
riding down.
Yeah.
And, you know, you'd go in and out of the office and we, there was always like,
dude,
you got a new laugh on something.
Like what were you doing out there?
Really?
You're that attuned to hearing the audience.
Yeah.
Or somebody like blows a line.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, did you ever blow a line?
Oh my God.
Yes.
Oh yeah.
I went, they call it the white room.
You can't remember your lines.
Yeah.
Michael always saved me.
And, uh, I remember one, there was a line that Karen had.
Where, um, oh, he goes, uh, yeah.
You know, your pal closes a deal and you, you know, your X, Y, and Z.
And then I'm coming across and my line was like, who's my pal?
Huh?
And what are you, Ricky?
You know, like that shit.
So one night he says, your buddy closes a deal and you're blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah.
So then I looked at him, I go, who's my buddy?
Huh?
And what are you, Ricky?
Right?
So the stage manager goes, that was fucking awesome that you caught that he
said buddy.
And you weren't in like robot mode because that meant you're actually listening.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So then we had this running joke, you know, because you go nuts.
Uh-huh.
So I'm like, Karen, one night you have to say, your buddy, old pal closes a
deal and you X,
Y, and Z.
And then I got to be like totally Dave Moss, all hardcore.
Like, who's my buddy, old pal?
So we would do, like, to keep it, like, fresh.
Keep it fun, yeah.
I swear to God, like, if you saw that play in June, the shit that Bob Odenkirk
and Karen
were doing.
Really?
And John Piracello, like, it was like the Marx Brothers, like what they, where
they took
that play.
Yeah, yeah.
And you couldn't break up.
That was.
Or did you?
Yeah, they weren't.
Oh, no, they used to try to make each other laugh.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, Karen was the hardest to make laugh because Karen wouldn't laugh
unless, if you
tried to make him laugh, you couldn't make him laugh.
But if you did some new choice that he liked, he would laugh, but you almost
couldn't tell
he was laughing.
He'd have a smile, but he knew how to keep it down, down here.
Yeah.
Because he told me one night, he goes, you know, I goes, I've been laughing at
that
for three fucking nights.
And I was, oh, no, no, I didn't know that was making you laugh.
Yeah.