He went up that night and did 20 minutes on it - and it killed.
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When the Kyle Rittenhouse trial happened, we talked about it on a trip to Vegas.
Says Burr’s longtime business partner Mike Bertolina, “What often dazzles me is how quickly he can take what’s going on around him and convert it into material. First, he stopped working clean, deciding, “I’m just going to talk about what I think is funny.” Still, something needed to change, and Burr made two key decisions. “That was probably the angriest I’ve been, and source of my anger in my comedy back then,” he says. Burr’s act was volatile, and it suited him. Also, there were other things I wanted - like being married and having kids - and I wasn’t in a place to make that happen.”ĭepression became anger, and anger came out onstage. But I was a younger man then and didn’t know that. I was headlining, I was paying my rent in New York by telling jokes - that’s about as good as it gets. “You start thinking, ‘Wait, am I the guy who doesn’t make it?’ - which is stupid because I already did make it, I just wasn’t selling a zillion tickets. “I was going to the same cities and the same amount of people were showing up, and I was getting older,” he says. His stage time and constant moving about the country were the only things, he says, “keeping me ahead of the smoke, the depression and the fog. I was back to living in a walk-through in New York. “I got unincorporated because I wasn’t making enough money. “I had no manager and no booking agent,” he says. And then … he became stuck - or at least what felt like being stuck.īurr was 37, sleeping on a futon, scared and depressed. Not only that, they don’t have any idea what they have until they really push themselves.” That’s why you should never judge somebody, because you have no idea what they have. And what you find is you actually have more in the tank than you think you do if you push yourself. “But each time I could be better than the last. “I don’t have to be Richard Pryor, I’m never going to be him,” he recalls thinking. If he was bombing at a particular stand-up skill - reenacting a conversation, for instance - then that’s what he would force himself to do, failing over and over, until he could crush it. So Burr focused on relentlessly improving his craft, “steering into my weaknesses,” he says. His biggest inspiration was Chris Rock, who was only four years older but already a star breaking into Hollywood. Back then, Burr was working clean (i.e., no swearing) because he was afraid of offending the crowd and fretted about getting heckled. He tried a few odd jobs (assisting at a dentist’s office, construction, warehouse work), but stand-up “felt right.” The Boston comedy scene’s aggressive fastball delivery style influenced his own, and two years after first hitting the stage, he moved to New York City. I was onstage with the mindset of a 6-year-old from 23 to about 37.”
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“But I became a comedian because by the time I was 23, I was so walled-off and fucked-up that doing stand-up was the easiest way to go into a room full of strangers and make them like me so that no one would hurt me. “I thought I became a comedian because I loved comedy and I liked making people laugh,” Burr says. How are you going to figure out who I am in a joke?” “It took me 50 years to figure out who I am, and I’ve been with me for 50 fucking years. “You can’t take one incident or one quote and say, ‘That’s who you are,'” he says. The media have been making assumptions about him based on his stand-up for decades. I made it my private goal to relax Burr enough to uncross his arms, and occasionally he would - then he’d cross them right back again. He looks skeptical and, every so often, is a tad combative. On the eve of the Netflix Is a Joke comedy festival, where Burr is one of the headliners, the comic sat down to chat. Old Dads will mark his first role as a leading man. Meanwhile, he continues adding to his acting credits, which include playing Pete Davidson’s would-be father figure in 2020’s The King of Staten Island. His upcoming Netflix special, Live at Red Rocks, will mark his fifth for the streamer. This fall, he’ll become the first comic ever to play Fenway Park. At 53, he is one of the few comics who can sell out arenas like Madison Square Garden and London’s Royal Albert Hall.
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