Name: Cancel Culture of the Past - Bill Burr
Uploaded: 2021-08-18T13:54:21.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Cancel Culture of the Past - Bill Burr' from Billy Twinkle Toes on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-18. Transcript available. A listener writes in about the cancel culture.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Cancel Culture of the Past - Bill Burr' from Billy Twinkle Toes on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-18. Transcript available. A listener writes in about the cancel culture.

all right cancel culture of the past hey billy redbeard by the way that
information came from
cnn.com so you know who knows all right there's reliable as the fox guys there
i said it to both
of them so now they can fucking shut up cancel culture of the past hey billy
redbeard long time
listener first time writer uh so i was listening to an episode of the podcast
where the guest starts
talking about cancel culture of the 60s in regards to mccarthyism and the red
scare my dumb ass
thought that was in the 50s i guess the guy saw twilight zone episode and
addressed it guy
concludes that if cancel culture was here 60 years ago it's never going away do
people not realize
that this shit has always been here um yeah people realize that there's always
been people trying to
end people's career but in the past it was always people with power you know
they achieve something
they got to a certain level and then they abused their power you know back in
the day the head of
a studio could end some nobody's fucking career in a heartbeat right but now
the tape i don't think
ever in history somebody that never accomplished anything nobody's ever heard
of can end the career
of a multimillionaire who has a fucking house with an infinity pool i mean that
you got to admit that's new right
you know what i mean and i know that kings have been taken out of power but
like bloodshed happened
if you're going to compare like fucking storming a castle
by the surfs or whatever during medieval times to moving your thumbs and
hitting send on twitter
like that's the same thing um i don't know i think it's pretty amazing
type of thing and as always what you see is that rich people are not evil
they're just regular people with money that's all it is that whole fucking
thing where they try to make
oh you know you know white people are evil the blue-eyed devil and all that it's
like no
white people are you with unchecked power when people have unchecked power
regardless all of this
if women ran the world now them too everybody everybody with unchecked power
for the most part
you know it's very rare that you get a jimmy carter very fucking rare
somebody that actually has empathy and is a caring human being and i love to
this day that people still
like yeah but the guy wasn't a good president it's like that's because all of
those evil sociopaths
wouldn't work with the guy how many presidents i mean the guys he's out you
know they all just fucking
buy mansions and go to fucking martha's vineyard this guy is like in his 90s he's
still built building
houses for homeless people
winning like nobel peace prizes after he was in the white house i mean the
proof's in the pudding
this very a very rare person um unfortunately and if we just i think i believe
that if you know male
female gail gay gay straight whatever if you could get more people like that in
power
and have them all working with each other i think we'd be in a lot better
position as opposed to just
you know looking at ties and the colors of them or whatever
um anyway do people not realize that this has always been here
just in recent memory everything from mccarthyism targeting imaginary legions
of communists to anita
bryant trying to get every homosexual working in the public sector fired uh yes
but she's in a
position of power right to the satanic panic of the 80s trying to ban uh
dungeon and dragons
yes but all this is the difference though this is the difference with all of
that is those all were
organizations that had power i mean the pmrc was al gore's wife tipper gore so
he at that
point was like a i don't know what congressman or a senator they had power
they had a microphone they had a platform nowadays it can just be like you know
somebody that cleans a
hotel room and if the person in staying in the penthouse is a fucking asshole
and they get it on
video that guy lose him or her loses their career that this is a whole new
phenomenon
and then you combine you combine that with
the abuse of that power which then when the trial is now on the internet
where there's there's no rules of libel or slander and you can really just say
whatever the
you want to say um which used to be just the world of powerful people with
money that they could you know
they could set the narrative now all regular people can do it um no i think
this is like a new thing
and i don't think that like what was happening with lenny bruce
is the same thing is what's happening to say comedians today where it then goes
into their private life
you know you know you could always get in trouble for that you said on stage
absolutely but it's just
like you know he came into the hooters and you know i just felt he was toxic
and blah blah blah
and then all of a sudden you lose your agent i know this is like a whole like i
don't know
that's like oh you know there's always been music
sebastian you know uh you know when that sebastian pocket whatever the real guy
classical music and
trying to compare that to uh you know people have always gone to concerts and
been a little crazy
people used to go to classical things and then comparing that to people going
to like
raves and dying and shit like shit is you know can progress that was a bad
example
that the music one i'm just saying um i don't think that we've been like
in a world where uh made up non-events about individuals who are telling shit
jokes and strip malls
can be the lead stories on late night news that is allegedly news that isn't
news
you know my whole time growing up i mean comedians i i never saw george carlin
as a lead story
like i mean i when richard prior like lit himself on fire and ran down the
street yeah
but you know when he was shooting up his cars i didn't hear it i mean i guess i
wasn't watching
the news back then but i i just don't think it's uh i understand what you're
saying if you're basically
saying that since um the beginning of time people have tried to take out people
without a doubt they have
they absolutely have but like um this this thing i don't know i just i think it
is is morphed in i
guess the musical type of thing it's just like you know jazz was big and now
rock and roll is big
and you're like yeah yeah you know it's all music it's all the same thing it's
like okay yeah i'll go
with you on that level but there's definitely a uh i find it disturbing that
people now do what like
these 24-hour news networks do where they'll put a headline on a video that's
misleading and they'll
also edit it in a way where it's just like you literally are like your own news
network right
now you are trying to control the narrative of these stories and the fact that
you know every single person for the most part has a cell phone with a camera
and uh and video abilities and then they can upload whatever they shot
you know and and they decide when they can begin it when they can end it
i just know there's never been a time like this there hasn't been um
so i i i disagree with what you're saying um i would say there's always been
people trying to
destroy people but with the technology that is available now for anybody to do
it i think this
is a new level how about that how about we agree that there's a new level um
anyways there was a
congressional hearing where rock stars and rappers had to go before government
committees like some
trial of socrates shit to prove that they weren't corrupting the american youth
with their damn devil
music this never leaves yeah but that's the government it's always been there
it always will be here it
doesn't ebb and flow it just changes targets no no sometimes its target is far
enough away from
me personally that we can pretend we don't see it happening stop saying we this
is your point stop
acting like everybody agrees with you um i i 100 disagree with you that this
cancel culture thing is not some new
thing you know it's it's been ramped up like i said back in the day you had to
get into a position of
power and you had to know enough people to control the narrative of of what you
wanted to have happen
you had to pay people off you had to do all of that um now like somebody you
know you know in some
ways it's good because you know if someone's actually doing something and they
are super powerful it gives
people who aren't powerful a voice that aspect of it is good but with that
power comes the abuse of it
and um you know a lot of the that you see out there so uh i disagree with what
i agree that that people
have always been trying to take out people but back in the day for the most
part it was it was
powerful people doing it and um everybody walking down the street didn't have
the ability to create
their own news story with their own thoughts and their own video and their own
like clips
um i mean look at the little click bait and all of that that they have out
there that just regular
regular people do that now because they know what plays and they know what they
have to say
to get people to click on it so they can get click on it so they can get
eyeballs so they get people to
advertise like there's never been a time in history where every person walking
down the street
is thinking like they're running their own tv network and then you combine that
with how most people
cannot handle positions of power and you have this show that is going on right
now
um which i think that it's as the similar thing from back then was it's always
just been a distraction
from what's really going on what you really should be say paying attention to
um you know who actually has the money who really is running things what
direction are we really going in
how politicians are all kind of paid off they're deliberately underpaid so they
owe people favors
that whole horse where you can attach all those things to bills so horrific
things get attached to
things that people want and then we don't have we don't get a right to vote on
a lot of those all of
that bullshit um i don't know i disagree with you i respect your opinion there
you go please don't cancel me