Name: Bill Burr - Vince Vaughn Wild West Comedy Festival
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Vince Vaughn Wild West Comedy Festival' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-05-20. Transcript available.

I went down to Nashville for the Vince Vaughn Wild West Comedy Festival.
The first one, hopefully not the last time because it was such a great time.
And I got to play the Ryman Theater and I didn't realize that was the original
Grand Ole Opry.
And I'm going to tell you about that right after these messages from our
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So, I mentioned, I played the Ryman Theater, which isn't in downtown.
It's in what I consider the downtown.
It's right where the Nashville Predators play.
They got all the honky-tonks there and they got all the play.
I don't even know what they call them that anymore.
Whatever, all the fucking country music and all that shit.
And right around the corner, right off this little street, is the Ryman Theater.
So, that's where the original Grand Ole Opry was at from like 1930-something to
1974.
And basically, anybody who was anybody got to perform, even before then.
Before, it was even the Grand Ole Opry.
It was a vaudeville space.
So, all these other guys, you know.
I imagine Charlie Chaplin.
I mean, he was doing the rounds.
He was working the road.
Buster Keaton, W.C. Fields.
They had his headshot hanging in there.
So, that's how much history this place.
Even when the people that I'm freaking out about, the Hank Williams, you know,
Patsy Cline and all them.
Even when they performed there, that place was already legendary.
And they actually had a couple strips of wood from the original stage.
So, everybody, you know, who came out to perform had to go and step on them.
And just think that, you know, all these unbelievable performers had been there.
And I'm not going to lie to you.
It was one of the best shows I've had in my entire career.
I don't know what happened.
I went out there.
And it usually takes me a second to get a little warmed up, get a vibe for the
room.
But I walked out there.
And it used to be a church.
So, they have all the original pews.
It was made in, like, 1898.
So, they still had all the original pews.
I'm telling you right now, if you go to Nashville, you got to go see a fucking
show there.
There's a bunch of other great venues there and stuff.
But you got to go.
Like, I heard Neil Young played there recently.
I mean, that's one that I would just stop what I was doing, get on a plane to
go to the Ryman Theater and just sit in a fucking pew from 1898 and watch Neil
Young.
I mean, it's just incredible.
So, somehow, a shithead like me told enough dick jokes.
And next thing you know, I'm the next guy on the show.
So, I walk out there.
And the sun's going down and up in the upper deck.
It's really small.
A lot smaller than I thought it was going to be.
Because people were smaller back then and they packed them in.
And there wasn't all this extra crap, luxury boxes and everything.
So, whatever.
It was like a 2,000-seater, 1,800-seater.
And it was the size of, like, I swear to God, like a lot of 500-seat theaters.
It's unbelievable.
We're literally triple the fucking size of these people, I guess.
So, anyways, up top they had these stained glass windows.
So, the sun was going down.
All right?
The sunlight's coming through the stained glass windows.
It was like the fucking Blues Brothers moment.
And I went out there and it was a great crowd.
And I was on.
I started talking.
They started laughing.
And I swear to God, I almost did, like, two hours.
I did, like, an hour and 45 minutes.
And I left out, like, three huge bits that I'm going to do on my special.
But, you know, you got to have your blocks.
When I put together a new hour and I feel like I got the, I got it together, is
you need that big opener.
You got to have the big closer.
And then you got to have, like, you got to have three or four big ones in the
middle.
You know?
And then you got your little ones.
You give them the rest.
Then you go back, new big one, give them a little rest.
Take them on a little ride.
But you got to have, like, you got to have the four corners there to build the
structure is how I view it.
I don't know.
I don't know why.
I don't have a good science background.
But that's how I fucking view the thing.
And I don't know.
I've had so much fun.
I'm having more fun than I ever had doing stand-up.
So I have more than enough at this point.
And that's the only concern I have when I go to tape this thing is I don't want
it to be overly long.
But I also want to document those jokes.
So I don't know what I'm going to do.
Either do all of them and then cut the special and then have those as extras.
I have no fucking clue how I'm going to do it.
But you know what?
It's a great fucking problem to have.
So anyways, backstage, and you can take a tour of this, is they have, up on the
third floor, they have the Johnny Cash room.
And they have the Hank Williams room.
And then you go down the floor beneath it.
They have the second floor.
That's where all the women's are because men are better.
We're above on floor number three.
And then on floor number two, they had, like, the Patsy Cline, the Patsy Cline
room.
And then, uh, what else?
Who the fuck?
I'm just so bad at country stars.
This is really bad.
I have no fucking idea who they have.
I'm sorry.
I just painted the whole picture and then just dropped the brush.
Just let you guys fall right off the fucking canvas.
I'm sorry.
I don't remember.
But it was fucking amazing.
I actually came out to Patsy Cline when I was there.
I know it's hacky and it's touristy.
But it was cool.
I've always liked her.