Name: Bill Burr - Advice: Can I Make It?
Uploaded: 2014-04-29T13:34:54.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Advice: Can I Make It?' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-04-29. Transcript available.

Can I make it?
Hi there, Bill.
My name is Ben and I'm from Israel.
No, you're not.
There's nobody named Ben from Israel.
Ben's will visit Israel.
I thought that was like an American name, like Ben Franklin.
You know, sometimes I notice how dumb I am.
That was one of those moments.
Sorry, Ben from Israel.
All right, I'm 33 years old, a father, and I've recently decided my dream is to
work
in comedy.
I've written a lot of funny bits, but sadly, the standup scene isn't very
developed here.
I'm also not a funny guy.
He put in quotes.
So I feel it might not be for me to, uh, might not be, uh, I'm going to try to
correct this.
It's not, might not be basically my path to perform, even though I write some
funny shit.
How do you recommend I approach this?
Uh, practice the only open mic in Israel filled with weirdos.
And only once a week, uh, get a funny actor friend to do my material, find
amateur nights.
I don't want to waste any more time.
I want to make some sort of career from comedy.
Um, all right.
Well, unfortunately, sir, you can't rush these kinds of things.
I would do all of that.
Um, but you're the, the advantage that you have, cause I know you want to do
this quickly
because you feel like you're 33 years old and you got a, you got a kid.
You gotta, you gotta make, make something happen here.
Um, you're, you're, you're actually advanced in that.
You, you understand your strengths and your weaknesses, and you're trying to
see if you
can work on your weaknesses to maybe perform or go to your strength and have
somebody else
perform it for you.
I would try, um, look, the open mic is only once a week.
So what the fuck, what does that take?
That's one night out of the week.
All right.
The rest of the time you can try other stuff.
You can try, um, making YouTube videos.
You can try writing scripts.
You can try all of that shit.
And the great thing about show business is, uh, you just start doing it and
then you're
in the business.
And if you don't stop, eventually you will start making money.
If you write something that people that appeals to people, but you're never
going to know
unless you do it.
Um, my biggest advice I would give you is quit thinking about the fact that you're
33
years old and focus more on the fact that it's a dream that you want to, that,
you know,
that you want to achieve.
And, um, you got to go after that stuff in life or else you're going to have
regret, um,
which you don't want, you know?
So I would just, I would focus on that.
Don't quit your day job, as they say, just keep doing that.
So everything's good.
And then as you start making more money in comedy, eventually you transition
over.
That's all there is to it.
So all I got to really say is congratulations, Ben.
Welcome to the world of comedy.
Have a good fucking time and don't be too hard on yourself.
All right.
Stay away from the cunts, the negative people.
And, uh, you know, I don't know whether there's no comedy scene over this, so
you can
create one.
How about that?
There you go.
Jesus Christ.
There's got to be plenty of shit to talk about there.
All that stuff going on, huh?
You know what you should do?
Why don't you start a fucking, an Israeli-Palestinian comedy night?
You know, where you guys all hang out and get along.
Then they can do a local piece going, you know, maybe politically.
These two sides don't get along, but when it comes to laughing, they all speak
the same
language.
My name is Susie Sundquist.
Here's my cleavage.
And I'm standing in front of the first comedy club in Israel.
Let's go over and talk to Ben.
Ben, how did you come up with doing comedy with your mortal enemy?
Yeah, you know, fucking things right there.
It's wide open.
It's wide open.
It's like when Vegas first starts.
They're waiting for you to open the casino, Ben.
All right.
There you go.
All right.