Name: Pennsylvania Is Depressing - Bill Burr
Uploaded: 2022-06-17T16:15:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Pennsylvania Is Depressing - Bill Burr' from Billy Twinkle Toes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Pennsylvania Is Depressing - Bill Burr' from Billy Twinkle Toes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-17. Transcript available.

how's your thursday no seriously how is it going um i'm uh i'm out here seeing
the family back east
doing some gigs i'm in wilkes bar or wilkes barry pennsylvania i don't know how
you say it i've
always found pennsylvania fucking depressing unless i'm in philly or if i'm in
pittsburgh
there's just something about driving there's certain parts of the country i don't
know what
the fuck it is i think it goes back to when no one knew who the fuck i was and
i was just driving
to some gig in the middle of fucking nowhere and i'll be driving out to like
fucking pennsylvania
like upstate new york i'm telling you right now you want to see me in a bad
mood get me on the
fucking 87 north you know there's like there's some sort of cutoff i don't know
where it is
somewhere around somewhere around poughkeepsie you know and i just drive and
what's funny is
both pennsylvania and new york are fucking gorgeous dude it's fucking god's
country
lush green fucking topography you know uh uh all kinds of water on the
geography
i'd go under an oath with the stenography sorry um yeah they're fucking
beautiful but there's just
something about it just i remember getting on the 87 north one time oh my god i
had this gig way in
north northern vermont and jesus christ you just rent a fucking car and you
just get in it and you just
pointed at montreal and you just started driving and driving and driving and
driving just fucking
and at some point you banged a right over the fucking hudson river and then you
were in vermont
and you're like oh wow this is gonna be great doing a gig in vermont i never
did stand up in vermont
sorry i just fucking woke up i never even did stand up in vermont hey check
another state off the
fucking list oh billy ocd you gotta do stand up in every fucking state and i
know and i know that i can
make everybody fucking laugh that's what i did all the way up to vermont and i
was working in this uh
this hotel or some shit and i remember this guy was middling for me he was a
nice guy and everything
this fucking asshole was supposed to do like 20 minutes you know friday night
he did like 37 which
is just way fucking over i mean headlining was 45 minutes back then on that gig
this fucking asshole
does 37 and then he pulls the whole oh hey i'm sorry i'm sorry i didn't know
what that about some
bullshit like that right and the fucking next night he went out he did close to
like an hour
and all he was trying to do was burn out the fucking crowd so when i went up
there there was like
nothing left and i was so stupid i believed him on the first show that he didn't
he that he
accidentally did 37 minutes the fucking guy was like 40 years old back then jesus
christ he's got
to be pushing 70 now i was just getting scary man that fucking gig was almost
30 years ago 30 years
ago and here i am still bitching about it rather than fucking you know i should
have just gone up there
you know done the gig got myself some syrup whatever whatever souvenir i don't
know what the
fuck you do i did some shows there i'm in new york city uh yesterday i went to
the matinee
showing of american buffalo um which was absolutely incredible it's funny it's
one of the few plays
that i actually know um i remember a long long time ago i was taking uh i was
thinking of taking acting
classes that's what it was i didn't even think to take acting classes what it
was was i ran into
somebody who was a comedian who got seen by somebody big and had never taken
acting classes and they
handed him a fucking script and he didn't know what he was doing so he was
telling me that story and he
had this look on his face like he fucked up his whole career so i was like well
shit i don't ever want to
have that that look on my face so um you know i just uh i started taking acting
classes so i remember
before i took acting classes bobby kelly was like dude come over to my
apartment dude we'll do some
scenes dude so you do something dude before you go over there dude and i was
like all right cool
so i went over there and we did some scenes from american buffalo and i have
not read the fucking
thing since then this is one yet another thing that was like close to 30 years
ago so anyways i saw it
it was the the play starred lawrence fishburne sam rockwell and this kid uh darren
chris
and they went out and just fucking killed first of all i went into the theater
it's that uh
circle in the square that's what they call it i guess square meaning time
square i didn't see a
circle but i remember a long time ago i went there and i saw true west with philip
seymour hoffman
and uh john c reilly so that's pretty cool you know as far as the actors i've
seen in there philip
seymour hoffman john c reilly lawrence fishburne sam rockwell and this new up-and-coming
kid darren
chris was fucking amazing um i remember i walked in the theater immediately
second i walked in the
theater i saw the whole setup and everything i felt like this real fucking
excitement like this is
gonna be awesome it's gonna be fucking awesome and uh you know fucking lights
go down places clapping
and shit then it gets quiet and the lights come up and fucking lawrence fishburne's
on stage i'm like
literally i mean i was like at some points i was walking on the stage i was
literally like you know
10 feet away from the guy i'm like that's fucking lawrence fishburne i've been
watching that guy since
apocalypse now boys in the hood the matrix fucking decade after decade after
decade of fucking
incredible work and he's doing this you know the big opening with darren and
they're both killing it
and then fucking sam rockwell comes on like fucking like a bolt of lightning
and then it just
it go it was so it went by so goddamn fast it was fucking amazing absolutely
incredible
hilarious dark the whole thing um it was awesome and i was actually thinking
like wow this is fucking
cool man i'm in new york and i'm in new york and i'm at a broadway play
watching amazing ass it's like you know
sometimes you know i just come to new york and i just feel like you know i do
my little small town
shit this is where i get my slice of pizza this is where i get a smoothie if i'm
trying to be good
i'm going out to the club and go do a spot the same shit i've been doing since
the fucking 90s
but every once in a while i actually do some new york shit i remember thinking
like i'm in new york right now
i had a broadway play watching fucking three of the best actors i've seen in a
fucking long time
um made the trip feel like you know like worth it um but i highly highly
recommend it it's it's going
until july 10th