Bill Burr is great and I don’t think I’ve ever met a guy who didn’t like him. Good politics too, and says them like a normal fucking person who can make a case without being annoying.
Some of the weirdo ass lemmy computer janitors in this thread seem to dislike him. Which means he’s probably on the right side.
The rest of this thread is bonkers. I have no idea what’s happening
unhinged people can’t tolerate non-idealistic perspectives. Bill isn’t a idealist, he’s a pragmatic realist kind of guy.
idealists tend to believe that any reference to a reality outside of their ideal utopia in their heads is a form of hate-speech against them.
Now I know what’s happening
I mean, his “stop being a pussy, stupid millennials” schtick is pretty annoying. We get it, you drank from a garden hose and came home when the streetlights turned on. You’re so cool
He’s gotten better about that, and usually realizes halfway through a rant when he’s doing it, and shifts it to making fun of himself for being a cliche
At this point, millennials mention the garden hose shit more than gen x ever did, and are more annoying about it. Source: am millennial, have seen people make these same exact tired comments for over a decade now
I’m gen x and I’d never heard the garden hose comment until just now. I never drank from a garden hose … we just used the dog’s bowl.
Wait, I’m a millennial and also drank from a garden hose and came home when the streetlights turned on… What does that mean for me?
Guess that makes you Superhero
Bill is a class act. One of the best living comedians.
I enjoy his talk show appearances, but his stand up is needlessly aggressive.
He’s from the Boston area. We are all needlessly aggressive.
His most recent one was making fun of that very fact about himself. I think its safe to say hes aware.
It’s been great to see him explore why he’s been that way. We need more men his age publicly discussing working through their trauma.
Even that, taken at face value, was aggressive towards his wife. I’m already familiar with his angry on stage persona, but the person I was watching it with (first time viewer) left the room.
In an interview situation he is much less angry, but also sharper and funnier.
I dont think you can say how his wife feels about it, thats sort of up to her.
I said he was aggressive. I didn’t speculate how his wife feels.
Likely she is very familiar with his act and doesn’t give a shit (the money probably helps a lot).
I like how you did the thing where you tell me how she feels about it again, right after saying you weren’t doing that.
I speculated about her feelings, once, because they were added to the conversation.
There’s no gotcha here. Just bad comprehension.
Some idiots on the right think bill bur is in the middle, how many times does he have to say fuck trump for those morons to understand. He deff not a establishment dem but he is deff a progressive
I think they say that because he portrays himself angrily, and people on the right can really relate to that.
“She went on ESPN and said ‘I don’t understand why female athletes don’t make as much as male athletes’ and all these men had to sit there pretending to be dumbfounded. I’m sitting at home screaming at the TV ‘BECAUSE YOU DON’T SELL ANY FUCKING TICKETS!’”
–Bill Burr.
Not exactly a bastion of blue haired “My pronouns are emdash/interrobang” leftism, is he?
Reminds me a bit of George Carlin, especially in his later years. George Carlin once did a bit about groups of people he would like to see killed in various ways, to include gun enthusiasts, helicopter parents and people who made small purchases on a credit card.
You excluded the rest where he said if woman really wanted to support them they should watch their games.
Which is a good point. And a lot of comedy is delivery which is lost in text.
Yeah, it boils down to criticizing feminists for being hypocritical, which would not be tolerated of a member of The Left™.
He’ll also poke The Right™ as much; all he’s got to do to get people thrown out of a venue in Texas is say “I love vaccines, man.”
The dude isn’t on either side, he’s the kind of comedian who makes fun of abject bullshit, and abject bullshit is Not. Scarce. in 21st century America.
definitely not a “bastion of blue haired “My pronouns are emdash/interrobang”” lol, but he’s right.
rip to one of the greats as well 🙏
not all anti-trump people are progressive. plenty of center and right-leaning folks say fuck trump. not enough, but plenty.
also it’s not even progressive to say “don’t blame immigrants”. that’s just basic humanity and not letting republican fear mongering drive you rabid.
Its not the immigrants that are the problem, its the system propped up on abusing groups that have less rights than others. Dressing it up as a humanitarian concern is a distraction from the real problem. The focus should be on companies who abuse employees.
In terms of right and left he’s pretty much the center. American “centrists” are actually right wingers in other countries. Heck, even the Dems who consider themselves leftists are actually on the right.
As someone who listens to his podcast regularly, he’s a borderline socialist at this point, but he has blinders on when it comes to “both sides” bullshit.
It’s probably because he doesn’t want to alienate half of his audience, which I get. But it’s super frustrating to hear because he’s right there.
If they ask Bill, which the media does, he’ll tell you, “Why the fuck are you asking me?” He knows his political views are and should be meaningless. He’s a comedian. The news media is responsible for the mess we’re in, stop asking comedians what they think and stop white washing fascism.
I don’t really understand this sentiment. No one is asking him to run for office. He’s an American citizen and he has a huge platform to speak on. Of course his political views have merit. You don’t have to be a political science major to talk politics. This comment section is proof of that. Obviously he is only one person and no one should be informing theirselves soley in what he has to say, but like anyone else his words aren’t meaningless.
It’s his sentiment, not mine.
Lol great clip. I totally get what’s he’s saying. We don’t necessarily need to ask him for his views, but he has 100% offered them himself.
He might appear to be in the middle, because he also goes after Democrats. And while they might not be nearly as bad as the party of American fascists, Democrats are very far from being perfect. They have at most a handful of decent high profile people. Bill Burr is just reasonable and calls out assholes, no matter their affiliation.
Bill is a real American. I like that he’s so anti-racist.
He married a black woman. You should hear his stand up talking about going to her place in Harlem. lol
And he did marry a black woman so he is far from conservative.
He just wanted his kids to be visible in the snow.
Edit: this is Bill Burr’s own joke lol.
He said he’d get off the train in Harlem and people would look at this super pasty redheaded white guy like a leprechaun had shown up.
I liked his routine about discovering he was ashy.
I was going to say the same thing, but then JD Vance is married to a brown woman and that doesn’t seem to mean anything.
Because Bill says enough crap that aligns with right wing views that they skip the rest.
And there’s so many selectively edited clips of him out there. He actually brings that up in OP’s clip.
With how often he’s punches down on transgender people, he’s definitely not a progressive.
Stop blaming each other. The ones we should be blaming are the mega wealthy.
No war but class war
Exactly, all the major social conflicts are fueled by a few very powerful people to distract us from going after them.
“Bill Burr blurts ‘Blame Billionaires!’”
I’ve listened to Bill for decades. He’s a good guy to get advice from. He’s also a fucking but bag sometimes. But who isn’t a little nuts.
Bill Burr has been saying a lot of ‘woke’ things lately, and I’m here for it.
Lately?
I keep hearing about the search for a liberal Rogan. But that person existed for a long time, we are just to busy talking about Rogan to see it.
Everyone says that, not just Burr
Unfortunately, not everyone and not nearly enough.
Not everyone on TV, though.
I blame billionaires for supporting the mass import of immigrants to line their own pockets at everyone’s expense.
it’s not at our expense. illegal immigrants do the jobs we don’t want to do anyway, and they contribute more to the economy than they take from it. (edit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6])
blame the billionaires for using 24 hour news and social media to misdirect people’s anger with bigotry and fear mongering.
they contribute more to the economy than they take from it
They even help prop up Social Security, since they pay into it but can’t ever collect on it.
Ah yes the rich globalists want to import brown people. We should implement socialism for the white. Maybe we could call it zinasme or something. Sozial-nazionalisme.
Billionaires want you to hate immigrants and support criminalization of migration. That’s what allows cheap labor, the threat of legal repercussion if they dare to speak up, and the racist stigma.
Beside, you’re from a first world country, they gave you crumbles from colonisation, but that’s still why you’re richer than some guy from africa. How dare you not give him the same opportunity as you?
Let people live where they want to live, idiot
This regime whore picking the pleb side haha
good for him, fuck these geriatric nepo baby pedos.
