Name: Watching Reruns - Bill Burr
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Watching Reruns - Bill Burr' from Billy Twinkle Toes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-07-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Watching Reruns - Bill Burr' from Billy Twinkle Toes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-07-26. Transcript available.

Underrated. Reruns.
I watch the same shows over and over again.
When people suggest a new show, it sucks one out of ten times.
One out of ten?
Don't you mean nine out of ten? One out of ten times.
Okay, well, I'd rather enjoy Seinfeld or Cheers
than try and get into an eight-part miniseries
about some dipshit who started a company.
They take liberties and you're better off watching a documentary anyway.
Anyways, he actually wrote the sentence.
They take liberties and you're better off watching a documentary anyways.
How I say it.
The people who flip out about the flavor of the week shows
are like seagulls at the beach just eating whatever is in front of them.
Don't call me old and disgruntled. I'm 34.
What shows do you re-watch?
That's a great question.
I've tapped out of most new shows.
Although my wife watched one the other night that looked cool
about this chef who has a reoccurring nightmare about a bear.
And I was just, you know, just the way it's shot
and just going, oh my God, how much fucking time did that take?
And the acting is incredible.
Not to mention the lead sort of looks like an amalgam
of Sean Penn and Sylvester Stallone,
two of my favorite movie stars of all time.
So I'm all in.
What shows do I re-watch?
I actually go back and I re-watch shit that I missed when I was younger
because it was before my, you know, it came on after my bedtime.
So I've watched everything from The Untouchables,
Peter Gunn, 77 Sunset Strip.
I watched a bunch of Adam-12s and Emergencies.
I watched those when I was a kid,
but most of the time I was told I had to go to bed.
What I really wish would come back if I could find it
was The Six Million Dollar Man.
I've said for years, one of the great episodes
up until that moment in time
was when The Six Million Dollar Man
fought The Seven Million Dollar Man,
which really fits into what I was talking about in the future
where robots are going to be racist.
I cost more money.
I'm better than you, right?
And I just remember he fucking,
he punched the guy's face off.
And it was funny, too, when the face came off,
it was, it just looked,
because like his face moved,
it was obviously a real actor,
so it was all like, you know,
he could just grab somebody's face
and, oh, you know, grab their cheek.
Little good Joe, right?
When the fucking thing landed,
it was clearly just like plastic.
And then behind him was like, you know,
just like the eyeballs and all these wires and shit.
And it was making all this,
it was crazy shit.
And I was, I mean, it was like,
that was graphic for what the fuck you saw,
but there was no internet.
And then The Seven Million Dollar Man
came running at him.
And the genius of it was,
because they were supposed to be super fast,
that they filmed it in slow motion,
so you bought everything.
And Lee Mages picked up
like a fucking steel girder
or a pipe that just happened
to be laying there.
And as The Seven Million Dollar Man
came at him,
he just fucking impaled him on it.
There's the one where he fought Bigfoot,
played by the late, great Andre the Giant.
I mean, just all shit like that
is stuff that I would go back and re-watch.
But then there's the other one.
I'm really partial to
all of those shows that are like
cops and gumshoes,
private investigators.
There was a million of them.
Like, you know,
Telly Savalas, Robert Urich.
I liked all of those,
you know, all of those shows.
Procedural shows were great back then, too.
They weren't so fucking serious.
You know?
It's just like a bunch of guys
just sitting around
giving each other shit.
Then they'd go out
and they'd fucking kill people
every episode.
Like, I remember
Ephraim Zimbalist Jr.,
the amount of time,
or Peter Gunn,
Peter Gunn in particular,
the amount of times
that he walked into a room
and someone was behind the door
and smacked him on the head
and knocked him out.
The guy was just out fucking cold
every single fucking episode.
You know?
I mean, it just,
it should have,
you know,
he probably was one of the first,
I already talked about this shit.
You know,
those are the shows that I watch.
I would like to watch,
when I get a little more free time,
once I get on the other side
of this movie,
I would like to watch some Kojaks
and then just,
I like the ones from the 60s
because I like the,
in early 70s
because I like the cars
and I just loved,
like,
what a big deal,
the hero of the show,
like the car that they drove
was so fucking important
and they had to have,
like,
a badass car.
Even if they had,
like,
a four-door sedan,
like Steve McGarrett,
played by the great,
late great Jack Lord
on Hawaii Five-0.
I forget what he had.
I'm bad with the Chrysler stuff.
He had some sort of Chrysler.
It was a four-door
in, like,
the first year of it, too,
because they kept updating it,
but,
you know,
remember,
Eflin Zimbalist Jr.,
I think he kept,
he kept driving Thunderbirds
throughout 77 Sunset Strip
and it was like a big fucking deal.
You know,
like,
I love the fall guy,
Lee Majors again,
when he had that Chevy Silverado,
that black and gold one
was the shit.
All right,
Jack Lord
Car
Hawaii Five-0.
Let's see,
what did he drive?
He drove a Mercury.
Oh,
my fault.
It was a,
it's a Lincoln Ford Mercury.
A Mercury Marquis.
Brougham.
He had a 74.
Let's see here.
That was such a sweet fucking car.
Oh,
do they have the actual one?
How the fuck do you prove
that that's the actual one?
It blows my mind
how that shit works.
Yeah,
I was like more into
that type of shit,
but,
uh,
I'd say if I had to go back
and just watch shit
from my childhood,
I would watch
Welcome Back,
Carter,
I would watch
WKRP in Cincinnati,
um,
Barney Miller,
Fish,
the spinoff,
The Jeffersons,
All in the Family,
Sanford and Son.
I mean,
Sanford and Son is just,
to this day,
just the writing on that
was just fucking unbelievable.
Um,
oh my God,
my eyes are going.
I just saw a thing,
I thought it said
Led Zeppelin attacked
at New York event
and it actually said
Representative Lee,
Lee Zeldin.
I thought Lee Zeldin
said Led Zeppelin.
That's,
that's not too far off,
is it?
Um,
opinion,
is Joe Biden sinking?
Oh,
Jesus Christ.
I,
I,
yeah,
I would say,
you know,
I wouldn't,
anybody who's going to be
president right now
is going to fucking sink.
You stick $20 trillion
into the fucking economy.
Um,
no it's not.
It's because he's got
a blue tie.
Oh no it isn't.
If Trump was in there
it'd be even worse.
Ah,
Jesus Christ.
Um,
all right.
Anyway,
with that,
that is the podcast
for this week.
I'm still watching
the Red Sox.
I'm still going to hang
in there.
I love the dog days
this summer.
And,
um,
I want to thank
everybody in Montreal
that's going to come
out to my show.
You're going to get
a fucking,
fucking great show.
I can tell you that
right now.
There's certain times,
you know,
sometimes I wonder,
other times I know,
this time I know,
it's going to be,
uh,
oh,
it's going to be a great
time.
And,
uh,
I don't know,
I'll get to,
you know,
try out my French
when I'm up there
in French Canada,
even though that they
have,
they have more,
a different accent up
there.
I'll see how it
works.
Um,
so that's it.
Everybody go fuck
yourselves and I will
check in on you on
Thursday.
All righty.
Okay.
Thank you very much.