Name: Bill Burr - X-Men Billboard Controversy
Uploaded: 2016-06-07T04:01:44.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - X-Men Billboard Controversy' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-06-07. Transcript available.

okay x-men billboard hey billiam um this is fucking nerd shit uh nerd shit so
please bear
with me there's a new x-man movie and rose mcgowan the chick who used to date
marilyn
manson has her tits in an uproar over this billboard because between mystique a
woman
and apocalypse a dude if you don't want to click on the link from some weirdo
you don't
don't know uh no problem just a picture just picture a blue dude holding up a
naked blue
woman by the throat to the point her feet aren't on the ground context
apocalypse the dude is a
badass villain in the movie and mystique the woman is the leading lady and
badass heroine in the movie
um here's the problem rose mcgowan says this is promoting violence against
women which i feel is
horseshit here's why if it was hugh jackman slash wolverine being choked out
and held up
no problem the point of the post is to show how dangerous slash how much of the
threat the villain
how much of a threat the villain is it's not a political statement here's my
issue with this
though how does a studio slash movie maker win suppose wolverine was the
leading hero
was uh what women would become women would be complaining that it's always a
man as the hero
and women are more like backup or support roles i mean mystique is badass she's
leading the fight
against this guy to me that's empowering to women uh she isn't a sex symbol in
the movie though
jennifer lawrence who plays her is really attractive she's just strong and a
leader all i can think is
that they wanted her standing all all i can think is that they want her
standing on the neck of the
villain but this but that's fucking stupid for promotional posters you couldn't
have her be the
villain and holding up a man hero because that would be some kind of anti-woman
all women are evil
campaign instead right way you lost me here you couldn't have her be the
villain and holding up a man
hero oh i see if she if the female character was evil and then was holding up
the guy character
they couldn't do that because then they would be saying it would be anti be
considered anti-women all
women are evil um i guess what bothers me is that it just seems like there's no
way to please
any non-white male lately uh women wanted a strong female hero they got one but
she's in danger of the
villain a man somehow that equals violence on women when it's really just about
violence in general
or war or conflict or whatever i mean the dude isn't slapping her for overcooking
his steak
he's trying to conquer the world she's trying to stop stop him and he's choking
her ass
how how is that a gender issue um all right um let me see let me see if i can
find the picture of this
here i did look at it uh library no that's not the i always click on the wrong
one
yeah i actually you know when i heard it i thought it was bullshit but then i
saw the poster
the movie the clip that i saw i don't see your feet dangling off of it um i i
see why they did
that i understand why that they did it that way what happens is when you're
right what i'm learning
is when you're writing something you're so fucking focused on is the story
tracking from point a to
point b to point c and we land this thing without crashing into the fucking
ocean um that they wouldn't
think that anybody you know might have a problem with that um i understand i
understand this is
actually one of those ones i get why they don't want to see that but in defense
of you if how about
this if the guy character the the fucking apollo guy whatever his fucking name
is was uh apocalypse
such dumb names apocalypse mystique these all sound like bad cologne um
um um anyways if if apocalypse was holding uh the wolverine hugh jackman by the
throat now would that
be promoting male-on-male violence would there be more uh barroom brawls
because of that i honestly
don't think it promotes violence i think um like the level stupid that you'd
have to be
to look at apocalypse holding up holding a woman by her throat and to say like
oh i guess it's okay
to hit women now i'm going to start hitting women if you were that fucking
stupid by the time you got
to unless she was riding in the car let's see you're driving home and now you're
gonna fucking choke her
because you saw this apocalypse guy choking uh uh uh fucking um mystique right
you'd also see another
thousand signs on the way home and next thing you know i don't know you'd be in
a car dealership buying
something or uh getting a fucking mcdonald's sandwich i think you would forget
if you were that like if your
brain was like that uh influenced but having said that looking at the um the
poster i i don't i understand
why they were just like you know that's not the uh greatest image you could
have another image up there
yeah i don't have a problem with them changing it but i definitely understand
your um
your points on that thing but uh you know i don't i don't i don't fucking know
it's
it's just the time that we're living in everybody gets offended everybody doesn't
get offended a small
group of people gets offended and um the news covers it you know because what
are they going to talk
about the fucking how the drug companies in a roundabout way killed prince you
know i mean
what are they gonna talk about they're gonna talk about fracking and people
them fucking up the water
supply then there's too much money involved in that okay but you know if you
got a group of
fucking soccer moms upset about a fucking blue woman getting held up by a guy
who appears to be made out of
stone um in a movie you know that's gonna make it that's gonna make it you do a
caitlin jenner joke
at a fucking strip mall yeah that's gonna get on the fucking news but real shit
that matters
no that's not gonna happen you know that's not gonna well why no why would you
do that that's
just another one of those back burner stories that they just stick on the front
burner all the
fucking time like they i mean i'm not saying like you know violence against
women isn't a major issue
but i'm just saying like people aren't as simplistic as that like they don't
fucking look at something and
like um i don't know as a kid like the amount of violence that i watched when i
was growing up
you know what i mean all the fucking shows that i've watched i've yet to chase
somebody down an alley
pull him off a fence chain link fence beat him up or even slide over the hood
of a car i saw all those
images when i was growing up i used to pretend and play war and all that shit i
never fucking killed
anybody i've never hit a woman i never did any of that i think what you know
what it is is what really
makes you do shit like that is is horrific fucking parents i think that that's
what it is and now
they're trying to blame the signs the sign that's going to be up for all of
fucking two weeks when
this movie's out as opposed to your dad and mom and their relationship that you
grow up for the first
18 years of your life fucking watching but you know you can't blame those
people because those people
buy things on the channel you know what i mean so you always give them a pass
and then you rub their
balls and you call them joe six-pack and fucking uh the true heroes you know
they're always rubbing
their balls like they give a fuck about them they don't they just want their
money you know what i mean
that's why corporations act like all of these non-crisises are absolute crisis
crisis disease
because they don't want to lose a fucking dime so if anybody bitches anybody moans
anybody
complains they fucking cave in and then a lot of these groups are aware of that
and when they get
to uh to get a corporation to cave it gives them like it it's almost like a
video game it gives them
more life and uh they're taken more seriously so it's a giant it's a giant
fucking game you know
at the end of the day it's it's it's two people that don't fucking exist but um
i don't know there's
something there's something there's a look on her face she doesn't look badass
there it makes me feel
bad for her and i want to help her so maybe what they should have done she
should have had a more
fucking uh ronda rousey look on her face and maybe was pulling backs on his
fucking are those cornrows
what the fuck does he have or is that wavy hair i can't i don't know what this
guy's made out of
his claymation hair she should have she should be like you know maybe gouging
his eyes a little bit
i don't know i was kidding who they'd still complain um if you really want to
get him going just
have that picture right there that image no i'm not gonna tell you do that
because there's no sense of humor anymore i was gonna i was gonna say that
maybe you could take that
image and say like um no don't bill don't it's it's don't ask me at a show i'll
tell you what i was