Name: Bill Burr - Advice: Self Deprecating
Uploaded: 2013-01-01T01:34:17.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Advice: Self Deprecating' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-01-01. Transcript available.

All right, self-deprecating. Bill. Hey, Bill, I can't keep from hating myself.
I have like
obsessive self-hatred, and no matter what I accomplish, some dark part of my
brain is
always going to shit on it. You'd think some insecurity would help push me to
better myself,
but this is to such a severe degree, I can hardly function because of the
resulting anxiety
and stress. I have a feeling you can relate to an amount of this. Yeah, you
really went
out on a limb there, especially since you're also a musician and shit on your
playing ability
as much as I do mine and was hoping you could offer some advice in how you try
to remain
positive if you fucking even do. Thanks. Merry Christmas. All right. Merry
Christmas. I hope
you had a good Christmas. Um, well, you've actually, I think you've, you've,
you've, you've
gone over the toughest hurdle. So for one of the hardest hurdles, the first one
is actually
addressing that, you know, that you do that. One of the hardest things to do is
to stand
outside yourself and sort of watch your thoughts and watch how your brain is
functioning rather
than just thinking a thought, taking it as law and then letting your body go
into a state
of anxiety and stress and all the stuff that you're talking about. Um, what I
try to do
to try to stave off those demons is I, I just try to, um, just analyze my
thought process when
I'm starting to think negative and everything. I just kind of just almost take
like a time
out and just literally be like, okay, now if I actually like take that, that
thought as
law, like, how is that going to make me feel? And how is that going to help me
this day?
Whatever this day is, December 31st, 2012 is only going to happen once. Is it
going to be
another one in the shit column or I can make it positive. And then I, I just
try and I don't
know, go to the gym, go play drums, do something fucking positive, try a new
joke or something
like that. But what I try not to do is fucking, I don't know, just let that
thought grab me
by the neck and just pull me down to the bottom of the lagoon. It's really like
a choice unless
you have, I guess, some sort of clinical depression where it's literally like a
chemical, at which
point I'm in way over my head and you should go see a doctor. So I would, um, I
don't know.
Did your parents suck? Were they assholes? Were they always shitting on
everything you did?
Or maybe they loved you, but like they had a, they had a fearful way of looking
at the world
and they always came up with something negative. Maybe it's something like that,
but at some point you gotta, you kind of got to turn the bus around. Um, I mean
that, that would
just be my advice. That's kind of how, kind of how it works for me. But, um, I
don't know.
I feel like in the middle of the night, I have my most negative thoughts and I'm
just fucking
tossing and torn and, um, Nia told me last night, said, are you okay? She woke
me up, goes, are you
okay? And I said, yeah, why? She goes, you were moaning. Go moaning. Like moaning
to me is like,
like sexual. And she's like, no, not like that. Like you were in pain. So I don't
know. But then
when I wake up, I always, I don't know. I, I, I'm always in a positive mood
when I wake
up, you know, cause I wake up next to my girl. I see her and then I see my dog.
My dog wants
to go out. And I, so I start off in a real positive thing, but there's
something at night.
My demons come out at night. I don't know what it is. I have like fucked up
dreams. I always
have dreams where I'm beating the shit out of the person, but I can't fucking
get them to
like, just stay down. They just keep getting up or I'm throwing punches really
fucking slow
and they have a knife and they're going to try and kill me, but they can't,
they can't
quite kill me. And I can't quite knock them out. Um, I don't know. And I don't
know what
any of that fucking means. And I went to therapy and all that shit. And, uh,
after a while,
I just, you know, I was just like, you know, you can't shine shit. Well, I'm
just wasting
my money here. Jesus. That was brutal thought. Um, all right, Bill, I hope that
helps you a
little bit. Uh, I would read books about positive thought. I'd go to therapy. I
would, I would
literally attack your depression. Like you had it, like somebody who has a
weight problem
starts going on a treadmill and starts eating right. I would literally, rather
than just sitting
there feeling the hopelessness of it, go on the attack. And, um, I really hope
you turn
it around too. Cause life doesn't give a fuck. It sucks. Like it doesn't care
if you have a bad
life. It's, it's all on you. You got to come up with the game plan and that can
be overwhelming,
but like just, you know, the whole fucking cliched one day at a time, but life
doesn't give a fuck.
If you don't get the girl, it doesn't give a fuck. If you become homeless, it's,
it's not,
you know, that whole guardian angel horse shit that this little tinkerbell on
your shoulder
trying to guide you. It's bullshit. It's, it's, it's on you. And I know that
that can be overwhelming,
but it's, it's a powerful way of looking at your life. Like you, you have the
control to make it
good or bad, you know, and I'll be selling my books on tape. Um,