Name: Bill Burr - Email: Article On Comedians Being Psychos
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Email: Article On Comedians Being Psychos' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-01-21. Transcript available.

Um, article on comics being psychos, uh, Billy Stray Jacket.
I was at the Wiltern theater gig and it was the best New Year's I've ever had.
Well, you know what?
It was one of the best I've had it too, man.
You guys were a great crowd.
So thank you.
Um, he says, I hope you come back next year.
Even if there's an overlap in material, people pay to see the stones touched,
trudged through jumping jack flash every goddamn year.
Yeah, but you can't dance to my jokes.
What's the fucking deal with Obama?
I can't, I can't sing them.
It's just, no, dude, you know what it is?
You think that you want, you don't mind if there's overlap.
Well, I guess you are saying overlap, but you're still saying come with some
new shit.
Um, believe me, I would love to do the Wiltern every year.
That was such a thrill to work there.
So I'm glad you were there.
Anyways, um, he says enough ass kicking, kissing.
I'm sure you've seen this article making the rounds about comics being psychos.
What are your thoughts?
My girlfriend said you made a comment about it on Twitter.
Was hoping you could elaborate.
Uh, go fuck yourself and tell Nia we love her.
Um, oh yeah, yeah.
There was a study by scientists.
We're trying to figure out, I guess, why comedians are funny.
Um, and then they just said that because we're basically, we share the same
traits or we are psychos.
Um, I started to read that and, um, it's ridiculous.
Um, to attribute it to that.
It's first of all, they're, they're making, it's, it's just a giant generalization.
There are comics who are psychos, but there are also truck drivers who are
psychos.
There's teachers, there's mothers, there's dentists, there's lawyers, heads of
corporations, politicians.
They're psychos exist.
Um, I really don't feel that it, that, that article has basically no credit on,
for me anyways, as far as like, I'm not saying that comedians aren't psychos.
Um, but I mean, this sounded like they were saying literally psychos.
I mean, we're out of our fucking minds, but I think a lot of people are.
Um, but my, the thing, the reason why I don't buy into it.
It might be on defensive because I am a comedian.
I will entertain that, but nobody I know was interviewed for that article and
no comic I know who's worth a shit would, would want to take time out of their
day.
Cause that's a, that's like, at the very least, the only people they got were
either struggling new or old desperate, like comics who just needed 25 bucks to
be part of this study.
And then, there's no fucking way I would ever go into a lab and somebody's like
asking me questions.
There is no fucking way I could resist giving misinformation and watching the
guy write it down and add it into his lab book with fucking beakers and
graduated cylinders behind him.
I would have all I would have all I could do to hold a straight face throughout
the entire process.
So, um, look, if you want to know why people are funny, it's a gift.
You're just born with it the same way somebody can, uh, a carpenter is born
with a gift.
You just, you're just born with gifts.
That's it's just, it's a, it's a gift.
It's not like, oh, maybe if I'm more like this, I'll be funnier.
You just, you either can do it or you can't.
And then like any gift, if you work at it, if you appreciate the gift you've
been given and then you try to develop it, you can get better at it.
You can actually get funnier if you push yourself.
It's weird.
I didn't think, I thought you were kind of born with your level of funny, but
it's, it's like any other talent.
You just got to keep working.
But if you're not born with it, it's like me, I can't, I mean, I can't sing.
I'd love to be able to sing.
It doesn't stop me from singing on the fucking podcast, but like, you got to be
born with that.
I could take as many singing lessons as I wanted to.
When you could sit there and try to break down the psychology of a musician, I'm
not a musician as much as I would love to be.
I still play drums as a, as a fucking hobby.
I also cook a little bit, but you wouldn't want to go to my restaurant there.
Right?
So that's what I think about it.
I think it's ridiculous.
And I thought it was really funny that some of the tweets I got were, um, I
love this one guy, like just the fucking ego on just the, the average everyday
person.
Cause they always talk about how people in the public eye are egomaniacs.
I don't think we're any different than anybody in the fucking crowd.
It's the same level of ego.
Some guy sends me this fucking tweet and he goes, this article proves what I've
always thought about comedians.
Oh really?
Your study that you never did with all the comedians you never hung out with.
And this, this one fucking article proves it.
I don't know.
It's more like, aren't you just unhappy with your own life on some level?
And it's great to see that they're saying that these people, uh, who do this
admirable thing are actually all psychopaths.
So it makes you feel better about whatever your lot in life.
I don't fucking know.
Um, whatever.
That's, that's what I feel about it.
I might be wrong.
Maybe I'm a psycho and I can't wrap my head around it.