Name: Bill Burr - Comic Book Stuff | Superheroes
Uploaded: 2016-10-03T08:31:57.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Comic Book Stuff | Superheroes' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-10-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Comic Book Stuff | Superheroes' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-10-03. Transcript available.

All right, comic book stuff.
Dear Billy Unbreakable,
we all know how you hate comic con stuff.
Actually, I don't.
I don't.
It's just, they're an easy target and I'm lazy.
You know what I mean?
I don't know.
Although I recently watched some reality,
I was on a plane, right?
I was on the planes, the plane.
And there was some show
and there was just these guys standing around in...
Oh, what the fuck?
It's a comic book store out here
and I started to watch it
and they were all doing that fucking...
If this comic book guy fought that comic book guy.
I can't sit through that,
but I can sit through...
Dude, who is better, Gretzky or Lemieux?
I'm telling you,
if Lemieux didn't have those years off,
I'll fucking stay in that forever.
But, you know, I can't get into comic book shit.
As much as, you know,
I liked the superheroes when I was growing up,
but then, you know, I got older and I grew up.
All right.
Superhero movies and Loot Crate.
I don't hate that shit.
I just like making fun of it.
You've mentioned in the past
the only superhero you liked was Luke Cage,
a.k.a. Power Man.
No, I liked Spider-Man 2,
Captain America, Iron Man.
Batman was cool.
More the comic book.
On TV was, you know...
I liked that show when I was younger,
but then it was just sort of silly,
too campy for me.
I liked the Heath Ledger,
Batman.
And I loved that Christian Bale,
you know, even everybody made fun of his voice.
It fucking made sense
that he would change the sound of his fucking voice.
You know?
You guys know what my voice sounded like.
If I had a three-quarter fucking mask on
and I just started talking to you,
you'd be like,
dude, what the fuck's with the mask, Bill?
You know?
Anyways.
Well,
you should be excited
to know he has his own Netflix series now.
Get the fuck out of here!
Luke Cage does?
It's super popular and getting attention.
Not just because it's great,
but also because it's topical.
It knowingly acknowledges the significance
of a bulletproof African-American
wearing a hoodie.
Through the series,
Luke engages with police officers
who shoot him
and leave holes in his hoodies.
The police often interrogate
and harass black people in Harlem
who have done nothing wrong.
Oh, I gotta watch that.
He goes,
my questions are,
do you still like Luke Cage?
Will you watch the series?
Yes, yes.
Do you think it's good to acknowledge
Trayvon Martin
and the Black Lives Matter movement
in this way?
Yeah, why not?
When you watch those fucking,
those Pixar movies,
they talk about global warming.
You know?
They had the ant thing
and they go,
you know,
one ant's not tough,
but you gotta,
if all the ants start moving,
they could take us over.
That was all about
like the fucking Bilderberg people.
If they can do all of that shit,
why can't they bring up that stuff?
I love it.
Is that a good way to acknowledge this?
First of all,
who the fuck am I to say that?
That's not an issue
that has made my life like,
I don't have to worry about my life.
You know what I mean?
So I would ask,
why don't you ask black people that?
Do you think it's good to acknowledge?
Anyways,
love your podcast
and your stand-up.
Greetings from Ontario.
Yeah, I'm just like,
that's,
I mean,
I like when,
I like,
as much as I,
I like Superman versus Batman.
All right?
I like when they do the comic book stuff
and as much as like,
you know,
the people can fly
and they're fucking the size of an ant
and shit like that,
the more reality that they bring into it,
the more grounded that they keep it,
the more I like it.
And I know Superman versus fucking Batman.
They're like,
Jesus,
how many people did they fucking kill?
That never entered my mind.
I didn't give a shit.
They're like,
they did billions of dollars worth of damage.
Who gives a fuck?
My favorite thing was,
they were saying,
that superhero can't,
they can't be out there acting unilaterally.
Like,
they didn't like that Superman was going around
just helping everybody.
Regardless of,
you know,
whether they would trade
with the United States or not.
And I just love that the United States
felt that they could claim Superman.
It was fucked up.
I guess he got adopted
by United States parents
and he did get a free education.
Yeah.
What the fuck are you doing?
You know what?
I stand by the American government
on that one.
No,
but the more that they can bring in
like the,
just the real world reality,
I think that that shit's great.
And the dark,
I mean,
in the comic books,
it isn't always like dark,
depressing,
they're fucking loners.
Like,
I never liked the X-Man thing.
It just sounded like a bunch of whiny teenagers to me.
They didn't go dark enough
or make it adult enough.
It was probably for teenage kids.
Who's kidding who?
It probably wasn't for a fucking bald 48-year-old male.
We got to get these guys.
These are the guys that are going to buy all the fucking swag.
I actually,
when I was a kid,
I read comic books
and I really liked the drawings
and the different ways
that they would go about it.
And when,
when,
you know,
sometimes they take up a whole page
and they draw something
or they'd have like
three of the squares
would all like a bullet got shot
and they just show where it went
and stuff.
Like,
I really liked it
and I thought I was incredibly talented
in that thing.
But I,
I stopped short
of,
like,
dressing up like them
and having like a fucking lightsaber fight.
You know what I mean?
I guess that's where you lose me.
And,
you know,
to be honest with you,
what I'm doing is what a lot of people do
is I'm,
I'm taking like,
you know,
most golf fans
are not like those fucking animals
at the Ryder Cup
screaming and yelling
like a bunch of fucking lunatics.
You know what I mean?
A lot of them are,
you know,
you know,
you know,
I went to the Masters.
People,
the people were fucking cool.
But it's just,
it's just fun to make fun of them,
I guess.
Jesus,
Bill,
did you retract everything
that you've ever said about it?
Sort of.
I'm trying,
I'm trying to be a better fucking person,
man.
I gotta stop,
like,
I just,
that the word cunt
and all this stuff,
like,
just flies out of me
in public
and it's getting worse.
And,
you know,
it's gotten to the point
where now it actually,
for the first time in my life,
like,
embarrasses me.
So,
I'm trying to see
the other side of that.
And I know people are like,
well,
then you're not gonna be funny anymore.
Believe me,
I will fuck up plenty in my life.
I don't need to be screaming cunt
when there's children around
in a fucking airport.