Name: Bill Burr - Advice: Quit Drinking
Uploaded: 2014-07-29T07:56:45.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Advice: Quit Drinking' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-07-29. Transcript available.

Okay, 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.
Um, I think it's a great thing.
And, uh, how do I put this?
When you, when you, 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, um, I wouldn't give in to any like external pressures as to when and where
you start drinking again.
Um, 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 I'm more kind of
observing like, oh, this is how I was acting.
Um, 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, uh, I would think at 22 to do that's pretty mature and you got a chance of
meeting, uh, 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.
Um, you might meet another, you know, smart person, your age, uh, who's taken
some time off herself.
Who knows, who knows, but as far as like, um, if you're feeling pressure to
start drinking again, that's the wrong reason to start drinking because
everybody else is drinking is not the reason to come back.
But, you know, if you feel like you have it under control and you know, you,
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 and go back on the wagon and I was able to
do it for four days.
And then it was like July 4th weekend.
Then I have a, had a beer and then I've just been kind of drinking ever since.
But, uh, 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, uh, it's, it's easy for me to kind of
like want to walk away from it.
But, uh, 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, don't go, don't
start drinking again because everybody else is.
I guess that, that would be my advice.
Oh, Hey, for that kid also, who was talking about not drinking.
Um, here's another thing too.
You know, at my age, I see, I see the results of, uh, abusing your body with
booze.
Drugs, food.
People say food is a drug, which I would actually a hundred percent agree with.
Um, you see the results of it.
And, um, 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, 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, uh, you know, hitting it hard, man.
It really catches up with you when you get to be my age, where it's like, um,
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, uh, you know, and
forget about underage drinking that you've already been doing.
Like 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, um, you know, you could actually experiment steering even more into a
healthier lifestyle, like learning how to eat a little bit better.
Cause 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, uh, you know, just basically being a
human being is no different than being an athlete.
It's just the timeline timeline is stretched out a lot longer.
Like father time is going to get all of us, but, um, you know, those athletes
who threw out 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, uh, I don't know when you look at it that way, there's really no peer
pressure.
Is there really peer pressure to, to die sooner?