Name: Bill Burr's Drinking Advice
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr's Drinking Advice' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-01-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr's Drinking Advice' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-01-04. Transcript available.

Quit drinking, would rather be alone, this next person says.
Mr. Embarrassment, I thought since you've taken time off from drinking
that you'd be a good person to talk to and ask about this.
I'm 22 years old, and after hitting the bottle hard since early high school,
I decided to take some time off after it seemed to get out of control.
Yeah, I've been there.
I said, I've been sober for nearly five months at this point.
The thing is that since putting up the bottle,
I've noticed I enjoy spending time alone rather than with other people.
I still go out to bars and hang with my buddies who drink
and usually just end up being the designated driver.
He says, I have no problem with people who can control their alcohol.
Just thought it would be a good personal choice to take some time away.
But being sober slash the sober guy at 22 is pretty damn rough
when everyone else is getting shitty.
Just wondering if you had any insight on the matter.
Thanks and go fuck yourself.
Well, I can actually relate even at 46 of being the sober guy
because of all the free time that comedians have.
We can kind of drink like we're still 22.
So I know how I guess, you know, but I'm not 22.
So I guess there is an extra amount of stress with that.
But I think what you're doing is a great thing.
And hello, Nia.
I think it's a great thing.
And how do I put this?
When you go on a run of not drinking, it's all about you.
Okay.
And what you want to do and how long you want to do it.
And I wouldn't give in to any like external pressures
as to when and where you start drinking again.
I always find it funny when I'm not drinking to go to a bar
and watch basically everybody slowly roofing themselves
and then just watch the behavior.
And like I said, I don't do it in a judgmental way
because it's more kind of observing like,
oh, this is how I was acting.
It can definitely suck at night.
But there's nothing better in the morning
when you wake up without a hangover,
ready to take on the world.
And I would think at 22 to do that's pretty mature
and you got a chance of meeting,
your judgment on who you start dating
would probably be a lot better
rather than you're hammered and she's hammered.
And you start the relationship off in this cloudy area.
You might meet another, you know, smart person your age
who's taking some time off herself.
Who knows?
Who knows?
But as far as like if you're feeling pressure to start drinking again,
that's the wrong reason to start drinking
because everybody else's drinking is not the reason to come back.
But, you know, if you feel like you have it under control
and, you know, you know, or if there's an event coming up
and you're like, okay, I'm going to drink at that
and then I'm going to immediately shut it off.
But I got to be honest with you, that's a tough thing to do
because I was like, I'm going to drink when I went to Vegas
and then I was immediately going to go back on the wagon
and I was able to do it for four days
and then it was like July 4th weekend
and then I had a beer
and then I've just been kind of drinking ever since.
But fortunately, I drank so much in Montreal
that, yeah, that now I don't want to drink.
I think that I almost need to do that.
I got to hit like a wall
where I either make such an ass of myself
or make such a bad decision
or just do something that it's easy for me
to kind of like want to walk away from it.
But like I said, it's all up to you.
You don't sound like you're an alcoholic.
I mean, from your fucking email, I can't really judge it.
But like I said, whatever, do whatever you want to do
but don't start drinking again because everybody else is.
I guess that would be my advice.
All right, let me read the last of the advertising here
and then I'll wrap it up.
Oh, hey, for that kid also who was talking about not drinking,
here's another thing too.
At my age, I see the results of abusing your body with booze, drugs, food.
People say food is a drug, which I would actually 100% agree with.
You see the results of it.
And unfortunately, when I was up in Montreal,
I saw a couple of people that are my age and 10 years older
and they either look, the ones that took care of themselves
and kind of quit drinking and tried to eat right
and that type of thing.
They look great.
They still got the light in their eye.
And then people who've been, you know, hitting it hard, man,
it really catches up with you when you get to be my age
where it's like, you know, I've been of legal drinking age
longer than I've lived when I wasn't.
You know what I mean?
That tip and point of like 42 years of age when you've, you know,
and forget about underage drinking that you've already been doing.
It really, really catches up with you.
So what you're doing right now, giving your body a break
when it's as young as it is, is a phenomenal thing to do.
And, you know, you could actually experiment steering even more
into a healthier lifestyle, like learning how to eat a little bit better.
Because at 22, man, I mean, you can fucking drink a 12-pack
and eat McDonald's late at night and wake up the next day
with a flat stomach.
But like you're setting yourself up for, you know,
just basically being a human being is no different than being an athlete.
It's just the timeline is stretched out a lot longer.
Like father time is going to get all of us.
But, you know, those athletes who throughout their career,
early in their career, took care of themselves, have longer careers.
And if you'd like to have a longer career, in other words, a longer life,
like doing what you're doing is a great thing.
So I don't know.
When you look at it that way, there's really no peer pressure.
Is there really peer pressure to die sooner?