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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 5-27-21' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-27. Transcript available.

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 5-27-21

All right. Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr. It's time for a Thursday
afternoon, just before Friday, Monday morning podcast.
And usually I'm just checking in on you to see how your work week's going and
that type of stuff, you know, to run my yap.
And every once in a while I have a special guest. And this podcast is one of
those special guest ones I have from a guy I started out with.
Well, I learned from when I started in Boston. He has gone on to tour the
entire frigging world.
He's been in like every Fairly Brother movie since Something About Mary.
And now he's landed a series regular role on, is it on Amazon?
Amazon Prime.
Amazon Prime hit Louder Milk starring Ron Livingston, Will Sasso, Brian Regan
is in it.
And the one and only Boston comedy legend, Jackie Flynn, everybody.
You're going to give me a big head, Bill.
I am. No, I'm giving you a nice, you got a beautiful Hollywood head.
I always told you, you know, you got the jaw, you had the head.
You had everything, like actually this side by side.
You got on one side what Hollywood was looking for.
And then you got me.
I'm more of the, I'm what's known as a character actor.
There you go.
Offbeat good looks.
That's the way of saying you're a weird fucker, but we'll find a place for you.
We'll fit you in.
Dude, I got to tell you, I watched the pilot of Loudermilk.
Ron Livingston, who I worked with a long, long, long, long time ago.
A lot of hair ago for me.
I loved seeing him being the lead in anything.
I always watched his stuff, so it was great to see him.
And I watched the pilot.
It's basically about a guy, I don't know, how would you, a curmudgeon-y guy who,
he kind of, you know, his first wife died.
I don't want to give away too much, but in a very tragic way that burdens him,
right?
Yeah, you're close, but there's a little bit of twist and stuff in there.
But yeah, that's basically it.
Okay, all right.
I only saw the first one.
Yeah, I know.
There was a lot of stuff afterwards, but yeah.
And how many episodes did you guys do?
We did three seasons of 10 each, so 30 episodes.
And the hope is, is that it does well on Amazon Prime, and then they decide to,
you know, make more seasons.
Because Peter Farrelly produced and, you know, directed it with Bobby Mort.
They envisioned this being, you know, eight, nine episodes, excuse me, eight,
nine seasons long.
So we're hoping we get the chance, because we've got so much stuff to delve
into.
It's just starting, it's just getting going, really.
And we've had a blast, and it's getting, it builds.
Every season gets better.
You're already three seasons in.
How do you keep up with what the hell's going on?
How the hell, well, you've been a series regular on something for three seasons,
and you haven't rubbed that in my face.
Well, you know, I, you know, I still wouldn't, I still wouldn't be able to come
close to your, what you've been doing.
But let me tell you, Bill, we shot it up in Canada, and it was on the DirecTV's
audience channel, and nobody saw it, you know, forever.
And then DirecTV kind of merged with HBO or bought HBO, and then now the HBO
Max is there.
So they made our channel, the audience channel on DirecTV, a preview channel
for HBO Max.
And so we had no home.
And then they've been shopping it, you know, hopefully trying to find a home
for it.
And finally, it landed.
Oh, so you finally found a home.
Yes.
Thank God.
Good deal.
Good deal.
Well, yeah, I'm excited.
Well, now I'm going to try to watch the whole thing.
It's called Louder Milk, which I was like, what does that mean?
Like, did you spike the milk?
Has the milk gone bad?
It's just the guy's last name.
Yes.
Louder Milk.
Sam Louder Milk.
Sam Louder Milk.
You know, I worked in a movie one time, and the head bad guy's last name was
Claphands.
Claphands?
His first name was Mr.
His last name was Claphands.
I had to be like, hey, I'm fucking working for Mr. Claphands.
Yeah.
Don't touch him.
Stay away from him.
Don't touch Mr. Claphands.
It was a fun movie, though.
Actually, you know, it's a good movie, too, but like that, I like when they
actually come
up with some sort of, you know, offbeat name.
Yeah.
I like that it's called Louder Milk, because you go, Louder Milk, what the fuck
does that
mean?
And then you click on it.
You know, it's funny, too, there's actually a congressman from, like, I want to
say North
Carolina or something, that's Congressman Louder Milk.
If you Google it, you'll see it comes up, like, underneath, like, that's, I
never heard
of the name Louder Milk.
I actually didn't know it was the last name.
How did Peter come up with that name?
No idea.
I don't know.
I don't know if he even did.
I think it might have been Bobby Moore, I want to say, for some reason, but I'm
not sure.
They created the show together, and then, you know, we all, right, me and Jimmy
Dunn actually
wrote with Pete a couple episodes together in season two and three.
Dude, you're all over this thing.
I love it.
And you got, you're playing, you're on here to promote that you're going to be
at Crackers
in Indianapolis this weekend, right?
Friday and Saturday, two shows, one at eight each night, just two shows, one
Friday, one
Saturday.
So what's that, May 28th, May 29th?
Yes.
I'm going, I'm out there for the Indy 500.
My, yeah, I told you, my daughter's boyfriend's an Indy car driver, which is
the other craziest
thing in my life.
Just.
Wait, is he driving in that race?
Driving.
He's in second place.
He almost won the pole position by a three hundredths of a second.
He lost it to Scott Dixon because he had some tape flapping on his car, and it
slowed him
down.
He should have taken the pole.
Holy shit.
It's crazy.
Yeah, I went over to Jackie's house, people watching this thing.
I went over the other day, we watched a Bruins game before the playoffs started,
smoked some
cigars and all that type of stuff, and I met him briefly.
I didn't know he was racing at that level.
I just.
Yeah.
I don't know enough about racing.
I just, I was like, all right, just.
I didn't either, and now I'm like all in.
I mean, I'm going to, you know, I've been like, I'm watching, I know what kind
of, what
every means qualifying, you know, laps, you know, pit stops, and there's a lot
more that
goes into it than you have no idea.
You know, growing up in Boston, I, you know, I was a Boston, you know, fan of
all, you
know, just baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and racing would be there,
and you
kind of go, okay, you know, whatever.
I just never really knew what it was, and now all of a sudden, I'm a.
I'm a fan.
Have you ever been to a Indy 500?
Yes.
A couple of years ago, I went the first time to see Colton, and we're all
excited, and
Colton's car shit the bed, and he, he was five laps, but he only lasted five
laps out of
500, and so now we're hoping, God willing, he'll be better, you know, but it's
also terrifying.
The more I know the kid I love him, it's terrifying watching.
Yeah.
Did you notice, what's hilarious, when I went to Indy 500 a long time ago, mid-90s,
what
was funny was the level of intelligence in the pits, and then right across the
track when
you went into the stand, all of us animals, you know, that welcome race fans,
and back
then, you could bring your own cooler in and just get fucking blitzed.
Yeah.
So there's just like, you know, there's not saying there's not some drunk gearheads
in
there, but for the most part, it was a bunch of animals like me, you know, you
just bet
every car, like, there's 40 cars, you got five cars, you got five cars, I got
five, everybody's
like, put money, and you're betting it like 50 different ways, just getting
absolutely shit
faced, and they're literally sitting there, if one piece of whatever is out of
alignment,
they go from first place to second place, or maybe back to fourth place, so I
always got
kind of like, you don't see that in F1, F1 has a really snobby, sort of rich,
richy,
you know, fucking Illuminati-like crowd, but like, the Indy 500, that's a party,
man.
I love it.
It's great.
I'm telling you, I'm really into it way more than I thought I'd be, and I, you
know, of
course, I got a dog in the fight, you know, so, you know, all of a sudden, I'm
fucking
Michael Vick here, but no, I got a dog in the fight, you know, and I give a
shit, you
know?
Well, tell me about, I started in Boston in 1992, and you were just one of the
guys that, you're
just like, this guy's fucking funny.
This was back when, you know, we were all trying to get on, like, Star Search,
and comedy
on the road, and all of that shit.
I can remember, go ahead, I'm sorry.
Do you remember that showcase when Ed McMahon came to the Comedy Connection in
Boston, and
it was like, the deal was like, he was going out on the road this season to see
the talent
in person, and what I think what was really happening was the ratings were
slipping.
Yeah.
So he had to go out, he had to go out and go do a tour, and I remember he was
there
with this chick, he was over in the corner.
So I never did the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, but I performed in front of
Ed McMahon.
He sat way up, stage left, you know, over in the corner.
Sure.
Yeah, we all went up trying to, like, took all our dick jokes out.
We all tried to be, like, squeaky clean.
Well, I didn't do that, because I had already, prior to that, a couple years
earlier, lost
on Star Search.
So that's how long I was, I think I went on at, like, 90, I think I did Star
Search, and
I lost a terrifying experience, you know.
Yeah, what was that like?
Did they shoot that during the day?
Was it at night?
It was, yeah, like, the late afternoon.
It was down in Florida.
We shot it.
They used to shoot it in Hollywood, I think, and then they shot it in Florida,
like Treasure
Island down there, you know, like a universal area there, and it was just crazy.
And I lost, I'll never forget, I lost to Katsy Chappelle, who's a comic.
I don't know if you ever heard of Katsy Chappelle, and she literally had, like,
a big, like, wig
thing on, and she, like, almost, like, pulled her head off at the end of the
show, like, that
was her big thing, like, and it was just, it was just the craziest thing, and I
thought
Did you have to go on after it?
No, I did, I think I went up, I got, I got 3.4 star, I, you get, four stars, I
got 3.9
star, whatever I got, I got, like, as much as you can get without getting four
stars,
and she got four stars and beat me, you know, it's like, I want an
investigation, it was
like.
Were you in the money round at that point?
No, I was just starting out, you know, I was just trying to, you know, whatever,
but
I mean, I did as good as I could do, you get two minutes, you know, I mean, I
felt like
a friggin' egg, you know, just ridiculous.
Well, as people will notice, dude, you're the rapid fire guy, so, like, in
those two minutes,
what did you do, 40, 50 jokes?
I probably did, besides, I don't think there's anyone faster besides Gavin,
maybe, you know,
I mean, Gavin, you know, makes me look slow, but I can remember, Billy, when
you said you
came around, I remember, I can remember, like, clear as day, you hanging out,
we're hanging
out in the green room, and the Fineo Hall comedy connection, you know, with
Frank, you
know, when Frank used to run it, and Frank O'Hearn there, and God bless him,
and I remember
you just this big shocker, I just, yeah, this kid, you had, like, you were so
happy to go
lucky, yeah, if people knew you then, like, I always have trouble, you know,
reconciling
the you of now with that, because you're just so, to me, I always have that
view of you in
my brain, and then I see you.
Oh, yeah, I was little Billy Burr, I was a, I was just a kid, and I, it
probably took
another six years, yeah, before I developed fully into an angry young man,
which, by the
way, dude, what the hell you're doing, you know, I know, but I gotta tell you,
I, I, in
this, this year, I've been going to therapy, and I just unburdened myself of
all of that
shit that made me angry, and now I'm in this we