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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 1-26-23' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-27. Transcript available.

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 1-26-23

all right all right hey what's going on it's bill burr and it's time for the thursday
afternoon just
before friday monday morning podcast and you know if if if it's being filmed
that means that i have
a very special guest because as some of you who aren't who are new to the
podcast i usually just
talk to myself in my little uh man cave there but every once in a while
somebody comes to town that
i i have to sit down and talk with and this is no this is not an exception the
one and only mike
donovan is here he has a new stand-up book called the stand-up comedy book a
collection of thoughts
stories biographies jokes and journals of stand-up mike donovan one of the
legends of the boston comedy
scene i when i started out welcome to the podcast first of all um when i
started out you were one of
the guys that i used to watch and i would sit in the back of the club and just
watch you get on
these roles and just absolutely like level the room and you would be killing so
hard that i forgot that i
wanted to be a comedian that i was trying to be a comedian i literally you you
one of those guys that
was so funny that you became like an audience member and i remember sitting in
the back of the club
thinking how do you get that funny so do you think because this is what people
have always asked me
why are there so many funny guys coming out of boston like i always said the
guys that started
set the bar so high and there was a standard to be original and no stealing
jokes and none of that
shit yeah hear you that's right yeah oh you got you got punched in the nose and
i just remember
watching all of you guys how hard you killed that i didn't think that it was
out of the ordinary
like when i would watch you guys killing like my idea of what killing is is
because of guys like you
lenny noxie rest his soul tony v all of those guys gavin sweeney and all of
them and i remember when i
moved to new york oh god this is going to start some shit but i moved to new york
and i saw people
coming off stage going like oh dude i killed i fucking slayed and i would be
like i mean you had
a good set yeah some of these people that say i killed i say you should be
killed yeah
what was i know what killing is and right you that wasn't killing it i gotta
stand i killed last night
i i've known you 20 years i've never seen you kill apparently it's only when i
never see you
that you kill yeah why why what was it that made all of you guys just i don't
know what it was like
from the beginning it seemed like dj hazard frank sanarelli all of you guys
were just murderers
fucking murdered and there wasn't there wasn't any kenny rogersen i'm trying to
think of anybody
you don't got to name a name in there that would kind of just you know hit a
single to right
and wait for somebody everybody was just kind of swinging for the fences yeah
the northeast it's
cold and i don't mean the weather you know if you stumble on the sidewalk it
doesn't matter who's
walking by could be a 90 year old nun right people laugh at you it's a mean
thing you think a little bit
yeah yeah i don't i i don't know i i something that uh i'm very thankful that i
started out and uh
i got to see you guys do anything so how did you i never even i remember when i
used to open for you
you were real quiet so i get really intimidated and you'd say hey listen pal
keep it to like three
or five fucks no no more let me tell you that story it's how that worked i love
that it wasn't
three or four be like three to five fucks right right well first michelle palito
at the kowloon
told me one night watch this new guy because she trusts me i'll always be
honest with her she said
what do you think of this new guy just let me know what you think of this new
guy bill burr and i
watched you at the kowloon and i was watching and you did this one bit that
really uh got to me
in a good way it was about clouds you were saying who is the first pilot that
saw a cloud and said
let's fly through this and we have the guys to go through it and the other guy's
saying no no no
it's going to destroy the plane i thought that is brilliant you know that is
just brilliant and that
won me over and so then the next day a lot of people used to call me up and say
hey uh can you
recommend me to some bookers i said well you know it should be something that i
decide to do it
shouldn't be something you're leaning on me to do right so i called uh without
you knowing did you
have a problem saying that to people yes i wouldn't say it i'd sort of lie to
yeah i'll see what i can do
i'll get right on that yeah i'll get right on that you know it's like because
if you're asking me
chances are obviously the answer is no otherwise i would have done it by now i
know and louis ck
there was another guy he didn't ask me i saw him and i said i like this kid and
i i called a couple
of bookers and i got him into a couple of clubs he might not remember it you
might not remember it
but i called uh pretty polly uh denise kirk that was one of the big phone calls
i ever got i remember
when they called me pretty polly used to book uh college gigs and they were
like hey bill this is
so-and-so from pretty polly mike donovan gave you a shout out and they go do
you know who we are i said
yeah i know you are i go you guys you guys yeah and it happened fast a week
later she's oh it just so
happens i got something coming up at dartmouth so we took the ride to dartmouth
it was three and a
half hours it's a lot longer than we're going to be here on this podcast it's
three and three 15 each
way and we got there and it was uh three degrees and windy it was one of the
coldest nights ever we had
to park four blocks away but you know he did a great job and it was all uphill
but let me just
tell you one thing i was i was watching one of your specials last night you
were talking about how you
were checking out the new music because you figure well i'm going to play this
club so i'm something i'm
going to do bill burr's podcast should i watch his specials because i'm i live
under a rock i'm a
bookworm i'm writing history books all the time that is my life is history
books right and writing
them and try and self-publishing them and i didn't know i knew that you would
become big but i didn't
know what you would become and i'm thinking to myself what if i don't like what
i see what if i
watch this special and he's some nasty prick some uh right-wing asshole or some
left-wing asshole
or maybe he's mean-spirited or maybe he's become hacky i don't know i don't
know i know that i like
so you think politically i'm in the middle yes thank god because that's what i
try to do
because i don't want to i don't know i don't have the answers i don't want to
piss anybody else so i
sort of trash both sides i gotta be honest with you liberals are more fun to
trash because they're
not used to it we're conservatives they're like yeah fuck you you guys always
shit on the no when
you came into nix i i had the night before you came into nix i didn't know you
were coming to town
and uh i had a dream that you were in my kitchen talking to me and he handed me
your address i went and
it was a long time that is bizarre i haven't really thought about bill that
much lately i know he's big
i haven't talked to him in ages and then the next day i get a phone call from
nick saying do you mind
if bill burke comes in and does a guest set and without hesitating i said yeah
i think i do mind
he's going to destroy the place and then they're going to boo me off the
fucking stage
and then and then i said uh and then ryan said ryan cut said don't worry about
it it's going to be
fine it's all right i just it was just an initial reaction you know and then
you came in and i watched
your set you didn't hurt my set at all because you know i couldn't you're mike
donovan well well
you're you're a mom i was also nervous dude i went right back this was last
summer when i was getting
i was getting ready to do that gig that i had in in boston so i wanted to do a
little set to warm up
and i i went right back to be a little billy burr opening for you and like drake
it you know i was
seriously no way dude you got like you know you got that face dude where you're
just sitting there
you're like that poker face like i don't know what you're thinking i'm just
going like keep it to
three or five fucks don't piss off don't piss off mike donovan mike clark won't
get me a giggles anymore
i went right back to that and i gotta tell you when i got off stage and you
said man really funny stuff
like i can't even tell you what a lift that gave me because i hold all of you
guys where you should be
like the like you guys built the scene that gave me a career so when i was
watching you and i was
watching you you have a wonderful rhythm and i was watching that uh but i was
noticing uh that you
were even-handed and that's a lenny bruce quality and before we finish the show
i want to do a lenny
bruce impression if we can okay uh but i was one you were even him and there
isn't a lot of that out
there there is there's a lot of people that don't do any political leanings
they're just hacks or
whatever or they just do their thing and it doesn't touch on politics but you
can name a hundred right
wing redneck comedians and a hundred left wing liberal comedians i'd say a
thousand left way but
they don't they don't have a a moderate bone in their body and they never know
how to say uh well
i changed my mind on that i'm back and forth on that or i'm not sure about that
or i don't know
enough about that or i used to feel this way and now i feel this way and call
me tomorrow i might feel
differently about it right and i used to be on wbz radio as a guest for for
several years before the
pandemic hit and one of the things that my co-host really liked what i said was
never let your opinion
become your identity because then you have a vested interest in not backtracking
and not changing your
mind because now my ego's on the line because i asserted myself on this issue
and now my opinion
has become my identity and i work very hard to always be ready to change my
mind in a heartbeat
on anything but anyway i was noticing and it was wonderful to see uh anybody
that was even handed
it's so rare that to me that's one of your outstanding qualities and i think it's
uh it's not my good looks
of course it is no i i really appreciate that because um i think that like i i
don't know
i don't know right but when i see people like just like in entertainment
tweeting their political
opinions it's just like why would you do that like nobody gives a fuck nobody
exactly you know
what dude just the way you said nobody was beautiful it's nobody you're yelling
at nobody and there's a
couple of morons that will yell back at you like last night we went out to
dinner my wife and i with uh a
a couple uh great friends of ours and at one point i showed this this thing
that somebody had posted
about how the politicians in the senate and the house of representatives all
crushed it last year
in the uh in the stock market you know and everybody else like took a bath but
somehow they knew exactly
what it you know and he looked at it and he goes is this true and i was like
you know i don't know
someone just put it on the internet and he goes because you know i don't know
if that's true and
i started to argue with him then i just stopped i go like why don't i just just
agree with you that
maybe it's not true because i'm not going to change yours and let's just enjoy
dinner and we both just
started laughing because at the end of the day like if you get sucked into that
thing where like i think
this way and you don't and i'm gonna convince you to think the way i think like
what the
fuck do i know so but back to that point is that the person talking like you're
describing is never
going to backtrack and say you know i've changed my mind about that well my
friend actually laughed
and goes yeah you're right like he's he's he is but nobody says you know well
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