Name: Glengarry Glen Ross Is More Relevant Than Ever | Josh Homme & Bill Burr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Glengarry Glen Ross Is More Relevant Than Ever | Josh Homme & Bill Burr' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-21. Transcript available.

It was really, really good.
I know you don't like compliments, but you were f***ing great.
Well, with stuff that I'm not sure about, so yeah, to hear that it was...
No, I was blown away.
And also, this actually plays in the catacombs, too.
Lately, I've been like, something camp shouldn't be too long.
You either say, man, I wish there was more, or I wish this was over,
and there's nothing in between.
It was such a well-timed, you know?
It was such a big stretch, too.
You got all these guys yelling at each other up there.
It was amazing.
No, people are going like, oh, my God.
You really made this Dave Moss guy, like, you know,
you really made it your own and everything.
I was like, everybody I grew up with talked like that,
and I keep saying, if you actually want me...
Yeah, what did you tap into?
If you want me to act, to have me play a f***ing laid-back surfer from San
Diego,
then if I could...
That, I would like...
That would be like...
But, you know, you want me to play some guy that's f***ing wound up
and saying the wrong things.
But what I do like about...
I do like...
What I do love about it is the over-talking.
Yeah.
And figuring that out with, like...
The timing of that.
That's what blew my mind,
because I went and watched the movie last night after dinner again,
just to get...
I can't wait to watch it again.
I can't wait to watch it again.
It's f***ing great.
You said...
You were talking about, you know, Jack Lemmon.
Jack Lemmon was so incredible.
The way he's flipping into salesman mode and then coming back to it
and his desperation to the daughter.
The flare-ups of anger.
Yeah.
Of, like, that thing.
And a lot of it was from insecurity, too.
He's, like, got his moment where he thinks he's on top of the world.
Yeah.
And then he had these, you know, other herniations of anger.
He was f***ing crazy.
Well, and I also think, you know, what they were saying,
how it used to be dark and now people...
It's like laughing watching it.
I mean, we're definitely doing it...
It got a lot of laughs.
Well...
That's a great script.
But I feel like it's, like, gallows humor that everybody can now relate to,
I put the best years of my life into your company
and now I'm finding out how expendable I am.
Absolutely.
And I don't mean anything to you.
Yeah, and why did I...
Yeah.
Yeah, like, you're throwing me out, like, you know, an old yesterday's
newspaper.
Yeah.
Like, what did my life mean?
And also, to have that done to you by somebody younger...
Yeah.
...is something like, you know, our whole generation,
the amount of people that I know that are in their 50s
that help build a major part of a company for profit
and they just don't want to pay them.
Yeah.
And now that they sort of...
And they bring in the new guard.
In their 20s, they sort of have the Ferrari, you know, ready to go on the track.
Right.
And they just go, well, you take him out and we'll put this 20-something...
And then they fuck the 20-something-year-old person.
They don't give them any money.
And they just, you know, keep it on the track and we'll be fine.
I think that that's why it's been getting the laughs that it does.
But, like, I've always been envious...
I was actually surprised.
I mean, I laughed a bunch, too, but it was so across the board,
the whole audience was laughing.
Especially, you know, your big monologue.
What was great is that you guys are talking over each other.
Michael McKeon is so good in how he holds back on these beats.
But the way you're trying to convince him to break into the office...
Oh, yeah.
And did I say that?
You know, that whole...
Two salesmen trying to sell each other.
Here's the other thing, is I come out and my character says all of this, you
know, racist shit right in the beginning.
So the crowd doesn't like me.
Oh, yeah.
And, you know, there was some stuff that they had taken out of the play a long
time ago.
And now they put it back in because it was like, you know, in different periods
of time, it was considered like too harsh.
But I feel like there's enough time separated now that you're like, wow, this
is how boorish people...
Yeah, this is who this guy is.
I don't like the taking of stuff out.
I don't think whitewashing it makes it any better.
It's like you're supposed to dislike your character.
He's the biggest dick in the room.
Yes, but the thing in the beginning when I was doing it, I was sort of rushing
through that a little bit because people were pulling back.
And then I think I was...
And when I was first doing it, there was an element of me apologizing for this
guy.
And then I finally figured, I was like, no, I have to be this guy.
You're supposed to hate this guy.
But you're supposed to...
But what I do love is those racist moments get the right laugh.
They're like laughing at how stupid this guy is.
And my favorite line that he says that really sums up white racism is when he
talks about the Indians and he says they like to feel superior.
And that's literally what he's doing.
Yeah, he's trying to do.
He goes in as a white guy talking to these Indian people and he immediately
feels, I am...
I am superior.
I am, and I am automatically smarter because I am white.
And God thinks I am the best because this is what other white people told me.
And God never said that.
So he goes in there and these people have like their own businesses.
I can't trick them.
Yeah, I can't trick...
But the whole thing is I can't trick them.
I'm annoyed.
I can't trick them out of their life savings.
And then my takeaway from that is not like, wow, these people are...
Hardworking, smart.
They're not taking my bullshit.
I can't trick them.
Yeah, I look at it like, oh, you like to feel like, look at this person
thinking they're superior to me when they are.
Because my shit doesn't work.
Yeah, when they are.
So that's what, like, I had been doing that line, you know, for like a month.
And I just knew, I'm like, there's something fucking more to this than I'm not.
And I finally had to like think, like, why does he say, you know, and then it's...
So are you enjoying the nuance?
You were talking the other day that there were times that you guys are, because
you've been doing it, that you're playing it a little different for each other.
Are you enjoying the nuance part of it the most?
Yeah, no, that like, when he throws it back differently, yeah, I love when he
does that, or like different reactions and stuff.
And that's good, too, because it makes you present.
And then also if like...
Yeah, it keeps you back in the moment.
And if you stay in the way that you did it every time, then you almost go into
robot mode.
And then if all of a sudden you lifted your eyebrow up and you never did that
before, that causes a brain fart.
And then I'll lose a line.
Like, what the fuck just happened there?
And then I'm just...
I've noticed that a couple of times where I then was like, okay, this is how it
works.
And then I have a good...
So I did that for a few shows in a row.
And then Michael threw the ball a little bit different.
And I almost missed it.
And I was like, all right, dude, you can't do that.
You got to make sure every time.
So I've been using like different things to kind of motivate, you know, every
night.
To be this upset about Mitch and Murray, I just use whatever I'm thinking about
that day.
Like, I relate to Mitch and Murray fucking up their good thing the way
streaming services came in to Hollywood.
And took an already difficult business and just put it in their pocket.
And then they go, you know, the business is shrinking.
Yeah, into your pocket.
Like, how much, like, it's like...
Because now they own everything.
Yeah, the greed.
They buy it off of you and get you and get nothing.
Yeah, and the coldness of it is just like...
Same thing in the music business.
Like, because there was a point, like, it was always harsh.
Yeah.
And to see that someone could come along and be like, oh, that's not harsh.
Yeah.
This.
Oh, easy.
This is fucking beyond...
Like the new Satan.
Yeah, so I kind of like, you know, I have the idea in my head, like, when I
picture those guys.
Because they have downstairs on the wall, they have, like, you know, the ideas
of, like, who would play them if they were in the movie or whatever, if they
were in the play.
And for me, it has to be people I know, you know.
Well, who do you got then?
Well, I could tell you off air.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, but then what I would go back to, then, is the tinkering.
It's those people that are, like, they're just in a position of power and they
don't handle it well.
Yeah.
And you just see who the fuck they are and they're sitting across from that.
And what's funny to me, though, is how I maintain my composure.
It's like, oh, this guy thinks he's driving the bus.
And it's just like, we're all in show business.
We're all in the hood, hanging onto the hood ornament like fucking Indiana
Jones.
And eventually that breaks off and you go underneath.
It's like, the thing that you're helping to build is going to drive you over.
I mean, what you can say about all of us who went to these streaming services
and helped them put everything else out of business.
Well, but we have to go somewhere.
Yeah, I know, I know.
You know, we have.
We should have seen what they were doing.