Name: Bill Burr - Rock Against MS 2017
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Rock Against MS 2017' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-03-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Rock Against MS 2017' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-03-28. Transcript available.

All right, shout out to Eric at Bose and then James Shotwell.
I did this thing this weekend, Rock Against MS, where I got to give an award to
Richard Pryor's widow, Jennifer Pryor.
And, you know, Richard suffered from that disease.
And, of course, he turned it into comedy and said how the disease actually
slowed him down so he could live longer,
which is really fascinating that that's probably true.
And anyways, James Shotwell was down there doing, I don't know, working like
the sounder.
I got to see all these fucking killer bands, these amalgams, like fucking Alice
in Chains
with Nancy Wilson from Heart coming out, crushing it.
And then she brought her new band out, Roadcase Royale, and they fucking killed
it.
Dude, she's still a beast.
I got to see Steven Adler play with an all-star band.
He played, what the hell did he play?
He played the Ramones, I Want to Be Sedated.
And then I got to stand like 10 feet away from him.
I got to watch him play Welcome to the Jungle and Rocket Queen and see all
these subtle,
all these little subtle things that he's, first of all, I get to see all the
genius drum parts
that fit so perfectly to that song.
And then just the different ways that he played them.
You know that part?
You know, so, da-na-na-na-na, clap, bow-bow-bow-bow-bow, clap.
It's really, I always thought he was on both toms.
He's just riding on the floor tom, and on the second snare hit comes over with
the flamp.
That's that little shit when you're a drum nerd like me.
I'm like, that's how he fucking plays it.
And I got, and of course, he was cool as shit.
You know, he's such a fucking great guy, man.
Had, you know, a couple people who were there that had MS.
He let him fucking sit, like, right behind him while he played.
When he finished playing, he came out, he high-fived everybody in the front row.
Dude, we were at the L.A. Theater in downtown L.A., and it was, I guess it was
a theater.
It was designed by Charlie Chaplin, okay?
And when you walk in, in the foyer, there's a picture of Charlie Chaplin
walking in
the night it first opened with Albert Einstein.
And, of course, I missed that photo.
Somebody told me it was there.
But downstairs, they have this kid's room that still has the original paint, so
they say
don't touch the walls.
And, of course, it's all these creepy fucking drawings.
Like, being a kid was so fucking scary back then.
All these creepy drawings of clowns and horses and shit.
And someone was trying to claim, and I refuse to believe that this is true,
that they, that's
where you brought your babies when they cried.
And if they got really loud, they had these little, like, cabinets.
You just open the door and you put the baby in and you close the door.
It's like, even downstairs, they could still hear it.
I refuse to believe that that's true, but I ended up, I co-hosted it with Craig
Gass, who,
that guy's impressions are fucking unbelievable, man.
It's Sam Kinison, it's Gene Simmons, Sebastian Bach.
And he's hung out with all of these guys.
So he has all these unreal stories, and he does dead-on impressions.
And Jim Florentine was there.
It was an amazing fucking night.
So thank you to Nancy Sale for putting that whole thing on, and I'll do it any
year that
they want.