It’s like, I got into the conspiracy theory thing and it almost fucking ruined me. So that’s just a load of shit. The pastime is making fun of something you’re not supposed to make fun of because that gives you a mental break from all the taxing shit you have to do. Yeah, no one’s that nice without a reason.And he had this Norman Bates build. It didn’t seem possible. It has all the amenities you would expect, merchandise area and bar, so it is a venue worth going to. What’s that?I’ve been trying to put my phone down. You can’t explain any of it. [Laughs.] Known as the Sandman, tap dancer Howard Sims was a mainstay at the Apollo Theater, where he would often hilariously usher flailing acts off the stage using a hook or a broom. It is there sometimes if I just pop in at the Comedy Store or something. You can’t practice it in your bedroom. “I know what I would do with it. Throughout my career I’ve said I’m a fucking idiot. Do not feel like a VIP! Politics and news didn’t used to be like it is now. * Service and handling fees are added to the price of each ticket, © 2020 AEG Live. Find Bill Burr schedule, reviews and photos. I was working in a warehouse with this guy and he was into comedy — first time I’d ever met somebody who was into comedy the way I was. A slower, moodier episode pulls back on Brown’s scene-stealing hijinks and switches the narrative from savior-focused to slave-focused. That’s why feminists are some of my favorite people to do comedy in front of. Can you remember any of your material?I remember making fun of myself for being a commuter and having no friends and being alone all the time. Okay, I understand what you’re saying about comedians being treated as if they have more authority than they really do, but you also hear comedians themselves talking about their work as an important form of honesty and truth-telling. I realized I was pretty fucked-up. Punch up.” That has got to be the most boring thing you could ever do onstage. Wanting to be a dad. I’m going to put them in your brain and ruin your fucking day.”. I gotta go up there as a white guy and put my hands on a black man and tell him to stop celebrating?” And in this silly way, the thing is a microcosm of how white people have treated black people: They’re literally dancing, having a good time, and the white guy comes in and goes, “That’ll be enough of that.” There’s so many fucking themes in that situation. But for all anyone knew, he’d been saying, “You want me to do what? Isn’t that like saying a guy who flinches when he hears a joke about getting kicked in the nuts also has to be working in his life to reduce nut-kicking or else his reaction wasn’t genuine?No, the difference is that I’m not judging the audience and I’m not going to blog about being offended afterwards. I’m literally doing a job that is the silliest job other than dressing up like a clown. Selling out theaters internationally, Bill is a regular with Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon and his Monday Morning Podcast is one of the most downloaded comedy podcasts on iTunes. Log in or link your magazine subscription, How John Mulaney Became the Best Joke Writer of a Generation, in the part of the world that I grew up in, playing with my kid or hanging with my wife, Both Clinton and Trump were frequent targets of Burr’s jokes during the 2016 election. I have this solitaire game on there, and then it’s like, “Oh, now I’m going to learn how to play spades.” And I’ve got the gin one, too, like I’m going to have this second career as a fucking gambler or something. I got to a pretty advanced age and comedy was a thousand miles down the road and everything else in my life was at the starting block. I also felt like a freak because of how I looked.