Name: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 12-22-22 w/ PETER BILLINGSLEY
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 12-22-22 w/ PETER BILLINGSLEY' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-23. Transcript available.

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 12-22-22 w/ PETER BILLINGSLEY

all right hey what's going on it's bill burn it's time for the thursday
afternoon just before friday
monday morning podcast that i'm just checking in on you and you know if i have
the video on that
means that i have a guest uh this guy's an absolute legend um not only was he
the star of uh
the original christmas story he also was uh one of the many driving forces
behind f is for family
um throughout the years we did that show i became great friends with this guy
and uh and he is here now with us the one and only peter billingsley what's
going on man maybe the
greatest introduction i've ever gotten thank you bill i'm trying i'm trying i'm
here i'm here at
bally's that just became the horseshoe what are you in las vegas i met up with
some of my high school
buddies went to that raiders game yesterday oh you did you were live oh my god
yeah
the biggest problem i had was them going that defense that they used to give
them the opportunity
to get there but that's at the end it was just keystone cop stuff but it was
hilarious yeah um
of course somebody's giving me a call in an hour uh um all right well let me
talk let's get down to what
you're here for uh you are here to promote um a movie that is doing outstanding
you don't really
even need me but i just wanted to hang out i'm here to say hi first and
foremost here to spend a little
time with my guy that's right that's right you used to live right down the
street from me no more uh
christmas story 2 is out right now uh the way to zori a christmas story christmas
not two why the
fuck does it say two up it's a christmas story christmas uh the long-awaited
follow-up to the
enduring favorite that fans everywhere keep on their annual must-watch list it's
finally arriving
just in time to kick off the holiday season this heartwarming and humor-filled
next chapter in richie
parker's tale finds him grown with his own family determined uh to create an
unforgettable christmas for
his kids because that's what you do as a dad and of course right as is
tradition in the parker household
despite dad's best efforts to make those spirits bright things go comically awry
and hijinks ensue
in this endearing relatable slice of family life um i've never heard that blurb
before
yeah you know it's a movie blurb so they're they're cat they're trying to get
uh they're basically
saying there's no full frontal nudity in that yeah it's this is a family
friendly one unlike the show
we did this one's family friendly yeah i do think it's interesting though when
you did the first one
that you were a kid and now you get to literally play like the dad role and now
you have two kids of
your own um i've only seen the trailer because i just been on the road
finishing up this other project
i noticed in like the trailer like i just saw the trailer i i really enjoyed
your acting just in the
trailer those little blurbs as i look at back he's really like grounded in this
and that you know
because i worked with you for like 78 years totally and i just saw you as a
producer going bill that
doesn't track they'll do it again bill we can't say that rewriting yeah so then
to actually watch you
uh like acting and i was thinking like you you had so much to like uh draw from
with two young kids you
know you wanted to make it you know perfect i was looking up i was trying to
find if there's ever been
like this long of a a kid character to an adult i mean you let alone any kid
character to an adult in
a sequel and it's been 39 years i couldn't find anything it's like the top gun
of christmas movies
it kind of they were even longer than tom and at least he was a grown-up in the
first one or kind of
how did they get you uh signed on to this thing because i i would just picture
if they said hey we're
gonna do another one your initial reaction would be like oh god you know they're
going back to the
well what are we gonna do like uh yeah no of of course i mean i've been
developing this for about
four years so i started working with the guys over at legendary um oh okay if
you know kale boiter
and those guys and mary perrin and jay and obviously people have approached me
for years and said you know
oh you should come back and do ralph i mean you're a good-looking guy peter i
imagine you get off
hopefully it's more than that but it was never a great idea and so we just kind
of started
similar to how we worked right like you had an idea and then you just sort of
slowly build on
the layers that you like about it and so it was you're right it was starting
with it'd be cool to
look at ralphi as a dad and was like well yeah and it was this sort of thesis
that we were around
where when you're a kid you really want the perfect christmas gift but when you're
a parent you want
christmas to be perfect for your kid and it's sort of that gift right where you're
devoted to that
and then really this movie starts with the passing of the old man so it's sort
of mythic and moving
into the patriarchy and and you know ralph has to sort of step into that and so
it's this call
to action at an important point in his life it's done comedically but also has
a lot of heart
and so as we started building the pieces i got more excited about it and just
felt like i wasn't
going to move forward ultimately unless we had it right you know we hired nick
shank do you know nick
he's a great writer he wrote written a lot of clinics with stuff he wrote grand
torino the mule
you know we wanted to start with now his next thing is he does a christmas
story he's pretty versatile
pretty versatile but also like wanted to start with a guy who's got a little
more grit right he's from the
midwest he's from minnesota so we started building these pieces and then i felt
like all right this
isn't a spot where it feels like we could pull the trigger and go with this
thing did you talk about
a sequel that has they all have pressure all movies have pressure on them to
succeed but this thing is
borderline religious for people this movie you know it's so sacred so you don't
want to do something
that's going to on it or impact it negatively and so to give you a sports
analogy i would always say to
everyone like yeah you got to play offense right you got to go make something
that's good be entertaining
but you got to play defense too on this movie like you can't make decisions
that negatively influence the
first movie so did you uh once you announced that it was going to happen did
you stay off social media
because i wasn't even on social oh yeah the haters come out they always do they're
like oh this is
bullshit they're gonna screw this up yeah cash grab think of something else to
do and i just said to
everybody i said just wait you know it's fine that's gonna start yeah you're
gonna go through these phases
you're gonna release a trailer a lot of people gonna go this looks great you're
gonna get that same
what are they doing oh what is this you know what they do that all the time
every couple of years
it seems they do a new joker movie and some poor actor gets the part of the joker
and then it's just
like oh my god this is i know it's soft and i just sit there going like if you
ever sign on there's
certain roles in hollywood if you sign on to do them it's just like you have to
stay on social media
right through the press and then years later act asked did it do well that's
what i said i said you
know what let's see where the dust settles in five years you know the last one
found a life of its
own i'm not saying we're going to do that but it's just it's a christmas movie
they're going to be
perennials are going to come back just don't worry guys go make something that
we all believe
in and we'll check in in five years and see where things sit and so far so good
it's been a really
i would say overwhelmingly positive response critically and from fans they get
what we did
they appreciate what we did and no we weren't you you're never going to be
better than that movie and
no one was trying to but it doesn't have to stop you from telling another story
in the chapter
no but i feel like it's a different movie where it's um so you had like all
like
you already went through being a kid and all your hopes of getting that gift
that you wanted and all
of that and the ups and down the stuff that disappointed you about christmas
and how your
parents were there's a lot of people you know they get older and they have like
kids and the the the
pressure yes that you put on yourself to be like oh my god what what if i screw
this up what if what
if i i i you know what if my kids hate me and think that i don't that's exactly
right all right i say the
wrong thing and i give them a complex and stuff it's uh it's a lot of uh a lot
of pressure especially
if you had a dad and like in that movie who was a great dad and like got him to
get you know in that
original movie the dad's the only person in the movie he doesn't ask for the
gun and just instinctively
knew to get it for him so it's like you got this great dad that's like full of
great wisdom knowledge
to be so it's like huge shoes to fill so we you know definitely play with those
tropes that i think
are relatable and to ralph and i agree certainly to me i mean i don't know what
i'm doing with this
christmas stuff i'm trying to figure it out but i don't know there sometimes i'm
like you know what
you just default to your wife because they know what to do they just get a
bunch of yeah yeah
they decorate the house you stay out of the way which is funny because then
they'll get like upset
that you're not like contributing it's like well if i start talking then i'm
just gonna upset you
because i'm gonna be like here i don't think we need all this i said just take
some of his
take some of his toys off the shelf and wrap them you know we don't need to buy
a bunch of new stuff
just wrap the ones he has and be like oh look at this he's only one he's not
gonna know he's gonna
get excited to pull him yeah you know what i mean you don't have to go buy all
this new crap that's
it's on the shelves i know that's like a uh you know my kids have a zillion
relatives and they're
always like getting them stuff because they love my kids which is awesome my
kids get to feel all that
love and everything but dude these kids they got more goddamn toys than i had
in my life i know this
year we're gonna like grab a bunch of stuff and try to donate it somewhere
where you can give used toys to
at least a get rid of the clutter but b try to teach that message like guys we
got to be grateful for
what we have you got a lot more than most kids right what do you what's your
stance on video games
not yet i don't know my daughter's five i mean selfishly i want to start
playing with her a little bit
you know so it's like that's awesome that's awesome we're a little i think my
wife knows the slippery slope
it can go i mean i know it too from you know living in my 20s single i i
remember the dark slippery slope
it can turn into dude for watching the sun watching the sun come up and it's
just like dude you got to
go to bed one more one more and you can't stop so i know i tapped out grand
theft auto 3. i was up at
like four in the morning or when it had been medal of honor it was one of those
games i was like i was
on stage doing stand-up and i was trying to figure out how to beat the next
level and i came home and i
started playing it and i couldn't get to sleep and i was sleeping until one and
two in the afternoon
just feeling like a loser right so i uh you know i'm not mechanically like
electronically inclined
i came home and i just unplugged everything and wadded it up and i just stuck
it in the back of the uh the closet pulled it out since never never used it
again never played video
games again i mean i can't imagine what video games are like now because uh uh
one of my buddies patrice
got me to this game siphon filter he goes dude you got to get to the level with
the bridge man the
bridge is amazing so i you know what's funny is to me those are a