Name: Bill Burr on Ageism in Comedy & Dean Delray's New Special '5836'
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr on Ageism in Comedy & Dean Delray's New Special '5836'' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-17. Transcript available.

let's talk about your special dean yeah hit me up and he goes dude i want to
shoot a special i'm
like that's great and he goes there's this venue you know typical dean's like
dude check it out
this guy fucking found a cave in the middle of tennessee and he hollowed it out
man and he built
a fucking club in there and i'm like what and he and you were like yeah he said
but at that point
only they'd only done like music bluegrass never done comedy okay and they and
they like they shine
like the lights up on the rocks above you uh it smells of sulfur yeah when you're
in there it
smell it smell like the old house i grew up in for a period of time when i was
growing up that had
water damage in the basement because the foundation was made uh you know one of
those buddy moves to
the basement he's like i got my own room now and you get in there you know it
stinks in here but we
can you know party yeah no but and also yeah you're like breathing in mold but
you know that you know
that damp basement smell that's what it was so anyway oh my god i forgot that
we went there
we go to do the get first of all how did you find out about the is it because
you you do music and you
did you were in a band and all of that stuff that you knew that this place
existed because no comic i
knew i know knew that that place existed no i ended up uh we talked about it on
the last podcast before
we launched it i'm sorry am i asking the same question no no no but i'm gonna
tell the story
uh you tell that story dean i ended up interviewing the owner todd mayo because
he wrote a book called
the caveman chronicles about starting this venue and then mid interview i said
i gotta do my special
there and he goes let's do it man we've never done comedy i'm looking forward
to it and then a month
later me you and marcus price and kenny club soda kenny were there and nobody
done comedy so there
was nobody to call and go hey what's it sound like did the laugh suck in there
whatever we totally
fucking rolled the dice and i was just telling the guys outside of the studio
if i would have known
where the fuck it was i would have been really nervous because it was way out
no man's land yeah it
was like flying in nashville and then just drive an hour into the woods i mean
it's a mountain
yeah or whatever but like i just kept felt feeling like i was in in that movie
the dirty dozen and you
remember when the officers were in like the basement and they they were pouring
all the gas and dropping
all the grenades down yeah yeah jim brown runs and he throws them in yeah i
felt like i was in there
and that did they close the door or no they did close the door yeah that was a
little claustrophobic
yeah because you're in there yeah it was like i felt like also like one of
those 1950s nuclear fallout
shelter and like you know this one town everybody makes it to the cave and they
close the door and
the whole world ends and it's just fucking them uh there was definitely those
vibes which i felt like
added to uh the show um so i went up and i opened in front of you and you got
to see this thing it's like
it obviously doesn't look like anybody else's special and you're killed so that
venue just being up there
like the second you got on the stage i felt like you know those times where you're
doing your act
but you're also like taking in the venue like this is really this is really
cool yeah so um
and then i was when you were doing your set you were murdering and i was way
you know towards where they the door was like opening and stuff and i could
just tell the way
like marcus was shooting it that it was going to be awesome so i think that
this thing is going to go
viral because it doesn't look like anybody else's uh anybody else's special
well the first thing
everybody says and i was a little naive when we shot this thing thank god i was
i was like oh yeah
we're gonna shop this and they're gonna look at it for one minute and go what
the fuck and buy it
yeah but you know they didn't even look at it the days like netflix and uh we
couldn't get a callback
we sent them five one minute clips because we know how add people are just
click on this and
fucking your bosses will be happy you found this fucking million dollar special
that looks like
nobody's and it's fucking funny right and we couldn't even so nothing but i
think that's a
blessing dude oh yeah you remember that documentary with that kid that guy was
in a band i think it was
that that one about anvil oh yeah and how they were just right there and all
the bands coming up that
made it were looking at them like those guys are the guys and they just never
broke through
and uh they were just talking about the music business excuse me they were just
talking about
the music business and the guy said you know at the end of the day he goes you're
better to own
something a hundred percent and sell 20 000 copies than to not own it at all
and sell 20 million
oh yeah so i think the fact that all of the for whatever i don't understand
like what show business
is doing right now like they're really not buying anything i don't know if they
got overextended but
i know like these streaming services are like these insatiable behemoths that
just need content so i
don't understand why they're not necessarily buying the way that they were
especially when you hand
them something like we i think it's the fucking tariffs man um i'm so glad i'm
not watching the
news oh my god watching that so anyway but i think what they're what they're
going to be ending up doing
by being stingy like this now or just whatever punishing us because we went on
strike whatever
the hell it is that they're doing they're going to create like they're setting
people free yeah
because people need to figure out okay well how do i get my voice out there it's
just going to create
all these different scenes and like i said dude i think you're going to
probably make more money doing
it this way because i'm going to promote the hell out of it obviously and uh
that's my favorite thing
to do is promote comics that i believe in you are one of those guys and uh yeah
there's also ageism
oh god big time i was talking to somebody about it and they go uh ageism in
comedy is that real i go
what are you fucking crazy no you have to be past certain points that's what i
said it's show business
in show business you have to be past certain points um or then the just the
angle of attack it just gets
steeper and steeper but um the reality is in in for all you young comics and
performers out there is
you never give away your power you always know that i have this power i'm
relatable and just because
you know these bean counters with their algorithms have these things like there's
a million what i did
when i was coming up is whatever i was running into once i went through that
that was i felt was holding
me back whenever i would i would go through the depression of it and then i
would just look at
somebody who was in the same boat and made it i'm like all right that's my guy
right yeah so like
i always use the going bald thing and i was just like oh fuck i'm going bald i
wasn't getting work
with the full head of red hair everybody wants to give me a fucking richie
cunningham role what the
fuck and i started losing my hair and i was like oh no man this is going to be
over and then i just
went like no fuck that ed harris yule brenner and i just started looking at all
these bald guys
new heroes yeah fucking uh telly savalis and i was just like those guys made
him but it was like
out of necessity yeah because if it wasn't i was just gonna be in some fucking
comedy condo by myself
going bald wanting to kill myself so but my thing is i hear your stories so it
kept me going because
you weren't the it got when i met you you weren't i always say you weren't that
mighty burr you were
doing you know potluck down there i was the chugging along yeah ginger yeah
yeah so it's like i hear
the stories i listen to them i keep going and i go well you know fuck i
remember burr was telling me
this story i keep going and keep going and and i've already if it ended
tomorrow i look at this
fucking run i had of 6 000 shows well i always i feel like everybody in this
business
like if if you're here you're getting this in the business yeah and then when
you get here you get
this and it's always that yeah and it's just because there are you know it's a
hard business
but there are so many people i mean look at martin scorsese yeah like they he
didn't win an oscar
until the departed unbelievable that's another guy that i looked at it's like i'm
gonna sit here
and whine i didn't make you know mean streets yeah taxi driver raging bull yeah
good fellas all of
these movies and have to wait and to in that that's like 10 20 30 like 30
something years of making
imagine you're sitting there and redefining cinema yeah and you're going before
he finally gets the
thing right and then meanwhile you know like everything's the same and then
meanwhile there's the catchphrase
sort of director that you know had the the the movie that was about the right
subject at the right like
that's like you know threading a needle or whatever so i'm just looking going
like all right there's that
you know and that's just white guys forget about fucking racism sexism and all
of that so like
as long as you like look at it that way you the the pity party ends and you're
like all right yeah
let me go i know who i tell i tell uh i never sit around and complain man it's
just like let's write
jokes let's get you know sarah silverman once said stop complaining and be undeniable
and i took that
and i was like yeah man oh yeah check out 58 36 april 17th april 17th youtube
yep patreon right now you
can buy it on patreon or what's what's where we're on patreon.com slash dean
dale ray and uh once again
thank you so much yeah no worries dude we're gonna blow this thing up fucking
amazing go out there get
some money oh man go buy some motorcycles