Name: Bill Burr | Bill's Mushroom Trip
Uploaded: 2021-03-03T12:00:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr | Bill's Mushroom Trip' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr | Bill's Mushroom Trip' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-03. Transcript available.

i don't know if i should tell you this should i tell you the story all right
let's i'll tell you
the story all right so what do people do when they go out to the desert right
they always take
fucking mushrooms or peyote or whatever so i finally decided like you know what
fuck this i'm
gonna try it so my buddy told me to only take like four all right so in my head
i'm like okay
that means i should take six all right because he's trying to ease me into this
thing it's like
i'm only gonna do this once i'm never gonna do it again i want to fucking see
shit talking to me
right so i say to my wife i'm gonna take six and she was like well why would
you take six he told
you to take four so i'm like all right you're probably right you're probably
right all right
so the kids are in bed it's a four-hour ride it's 10 o'clock at night i'm like
fuck it i'm going in
right so i take this shit
one pill makes you nervous right so i take the shit
and uh didn't take long like 40 minutes later it hit me
it just kind of felt like i ate like a fucking pot cookie or something
and uh i don't know there was a couple of times like the toilet looked like it
was breathing
you know or like a painting kind of looked like it was moving but other than
that i wasn't like
seeing shit seeing shit right which kind of bugged me i was like fuck i knew i
should have taken
six right but the whole time i was like nauseous i was like what is this is
this like fucking heroin
like you puke or something and uh i don't know it was like it was all right i
didn't but i didn't
like trip i just kind of got into a weirder sort of it felt like i ate weed or
something right
i know there's all these mushroom people going like oh man uh dude you should
have because
everybody know it takes muscles like oh my god dude and like i i understand
myself and i understand
like fucking the universe and i'm one with it and i was looking at all people
and just feeling
nothing but love i that didn't happen for me i think because i've been facing
all of these
fucking things that i've been running from uh it kind of went the other way
like after i was done
kind of like shit like vibrating and stuff and i was sort of coming down uh i
was left with this
profound sense of sadness and loneliness
and i was even thinking about people that i knew that i knew loved me and i
still was still feeling
that and i was like what the fuck is this this is crazy right so whatever i
went to bed and then the
next morning when i woke up i kind of i think i pieced it together it was like
it was actually a
good thing it was kind of bringing all of that stuff to the surface and it's
part of like the whole all
of this shit that i'm fucking finally finally dealing with i also made me
realize that i kind of slept
walked through my 30s and 40s all i was doing was trying to achieve shit
because really that's why i got into
this business was i'm gonna do shit that's gonna make people laugh and then
people are gonna stop
fucking with me i swear to god it goes back to like the eight-year-old me and
then because i thought
being on stage everybody just automatically liked you um and also twitter didn't
exist
hey you ginger mongoloid right i thought if i did that you know everybody would
like me people would
stop fucking with me and then i also thought like because i was afraid to talk
to you know girls and
shit when i was younger i was like they see me on stage and they'll come up to
me i don't have to
break the ice none of that was true you still as a comedian i think with a
musician you can kind of
sort of sort of brood off in the corner and they'd be like hey i like really
like like your ukulele you
want to hang out or something as a fucking comic you still you still have to
fucking not only do you
still got to work for it they they want you to be funny every eight fucking
seconds like what they
just saw you doing so um yeah so then that made me start watching stand-up and
everything
and then also stop paying attention in school and just keep fantasizing about
like just crazy shit
like everything from fucking being the nude lead singer from acdc to like
winning the medal of
honor like just fucking bananas like hero fantasies and all of it came down to
me not liking myself
and not understanding all this bullshit that was happening to me um so but
along the way because
of that i really got into stand-up comedy and then i just wanted to be a
comedian but like if i really
get boiled down to it it that's the reason why i did it i got into it um and i
think all of that
shit that i then you know my 20s was figuring out stand up and meeting all
these great people that i am
now been friends with forever but my 30s and 40s i just fucking you know plowed
through
and and didn't deal with all of this fucking shit that i it's embarrassing like
i feel like i should
have dealt with it by the time i was like 21 22 and now i'm 52 gonna be 53 so i
think that that's
what the tail end of that little experience was out there um
so it was a good thing as much as it wasn't like i think if you're if you kind
of like yourself
i think if you like yourself and you're at peace
with shit that's happened to you the people in your life or were in your life
or whatever i think if
you're not even if you're not at peace if you've just fucking like gone through
sadness and allowed
yourself to feel sad cried or whatever but as opposed to being like i don't
give a fuck i don't give a
shit i don't care i don't give a fuck right if you just fucking do that or
maybe i'm just being
fucking narcissistic right now and thinking that my experience will be your
experience if you had
roughly the same sort of thing but i i would be interested to hear what anybody
who's who's had
something like that or i'll listen to your theories because i'm trying to
figure out
i'm trying to figure out why um
all right well i think i did i don't know it was but it was you know
i did you know whatever i fucking went to joshua tree i tried to hallucinate
didn't quite happen but
i mean that's what's i gave it the old college try i don't know i also think
like i'm just not like
because one of my buddies is going like what's it like right now i go well you
know the tv looks
like it's growing and it's gonna fall sort of but not really it's not like alice
in wonderland but
it it looks like but i know it isn't
and then somebody else goes just go with it
it's like going what i don't want to fucking think the tv's falling on me
i don't know the whole fucking thing was funny