Bill Burr Can't Help But Laugh When He Watches The News | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I want to talk to you about this project, this movie that you're working on because it's something that you and I have talked about because we're

friend

s, we've had dinner together, we've gone out, our wives have gone out, it's just pictures with big chalices and candelabras that we made . They brought me some armor in the corner you're talking about. This film you have made is near and dear to your heart. It's about being dads, older dads, old dads. Dads, there was something that came up because you know, I didn't join and have kids very late in life, like I was 54, my kids are five and two and um, I didn't realize how much the world had changed like that of my daughter. she was in kindergarten now and I was in kindergarten 50 years ago, so the whole way they teach everything, literally, I was like, "oh, you're in the jungle gym" and she was like It's called structure and then I'd be like yeah and then I'd be like oh my gosh I said jungle you know?

I said borderline racist now like what did I just say and you start freaking out and uh uh you know, it's like that lives in that world and then also this whole world now where you know you go back to someone's Twitter account eight years ago and you find a bad tweet and they say this is who this guy is and he's I always looked at it like you have to go back eight years before this guy was an amazing person, like Lou Gehrig, of not being an idiot if you spent seven years like this guy was totally cool, but in 2014, oh you know.

That random Wednesday I was really in a good mood, yeah, and it was weird that someone, you know, I leaned left, I'm not 100 years old, it's like you know, um, I just thought that whole era was really fascinating to Observe people. like just trying to ruin people, like I understood the beginning

when

they were going after these monstrous people, but then it turned into this, you know, these Ticky tack misdemeanors and they just burned them, I was like for the Frankenstein movie like everyone is going up the hill, so, it's like you subtly live in that world too, and you know, one of the things that I identify with you is that we both come from, like I say, something similar. part of the country, I'm a little older than you and I relate a lot

when

you talk about being a father, uh, you often relate it to when you were contrasted with when we were kids and that's something that impacts me. because you know I had kids later in life, they're teenagers now, but in the early stages I remember thinking this is in no way like the childhood I had, yeah, you know, because first of all, the fact That there is so much care and attention that goes into each child is something that no, I'm not saying I love my parents but it was a different attitude, there were six of us and I remember it very clearly at one point, if you ask my mother, my father, you know.

Where is Conan? They were like, I don't know, you know, he's, yeah, you know, no one knew exactly where you were, they just sent you outside, so it was a lot, they just sent you outside and you came out. and you just met other kids your age and you came up with things to do when you were out and you finally ran into older kids and then they beat you up and then this is where and then you came up like this. a cartoon for Netflix called family of episodes, one of the first episodes is a scene where young me and his

friend

are in a tree and these guys start throwing rocks at us and shooting fireworks and that was based on a true story, there were no fireworks. but it was just a friend of mine and I were climbing trees, we're just climbing a tree because that's what you did before the Internet didn't exist, that was like that, being online climbing a tree and risking your life, like that that we climbed this tree and These bigger kids came and saw us there and started throwing rocks at us until their arms got tired, we were there like Brian getting hit on the ankles and on the back and then you just get off the tree and then ghost kids get excited but I remember the number and I mention this because at the time my daughter could drive or my son could drive my wife would check it and she could show me on the phone where they were and I thought that was just I'm surprised, what?

No? It doesn't overshadow Edgar Hoover, yeah, yeah, I don't think it's right that we're so responsible all the time, and sometimes I wonder if I'm just jealous that there's something different. care and attention, I see what you mean, you know what I mean and I wonder why when I watch your comedy, when I saw you at Red Rocks and you're talking about every time you talk about your son, your father, how ? how the house was tense or there was anger people weren't handling things properly uh I think so I know what you're talking about it was an ERA and I think sometimes when I see my family and my wife handling everything. so beautiful for some reason I get angry I don't guess why where was it okay what do you mean they eat you're looking at them in the eyes and talking to them what was this I totally understand I'm about to be in something like uh in a grocery store or something like this and I saw this little boy who started crying about something and his mother came over and started hugging him and comforting him and I immediately felt the urge to go and trip this little boy, oh my gosh and then another time I remember the grocery store because that's where a lot of you know moms like kids and stuff and this kid was like yeah mom can I have candy and she said no and then she started crying and that made me

laugh

, I was going to say, yes, I got used to that child, so, then you enjoy the happiness and pain of a child, I thought so, but it was just me with all my strength.

I was jealous of the boy who was being hugged and then I was

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ing at the other boy because I told him how I remember a long time ago when I saw a sling when I was at the movies and I remember when he took that guy out of the house in the wheelchair and He said: Get out of my house and he pushed him away as if he were defenseless. I laughed out loud and I remember he was with you, these actors that he was working on and they looked at me this way horrified and I couldn't explain it to you.

I had to be a comedian to understand how I think actors and comedians process pain differently right where I think actors are more like examining it, where comedians just flatten it out and it's like you're just laughing, not because you're happy about what happened. For someone in a wheelchair, you're just laughing. How bad it was. I told you about this. One time my wife was on the plane with me and she was going somewhere far away, so she had like a tablet and I started watching a movie. and she had fallen asleep and I was watching a movie and I was laughing so hard that I woke her up and then she, you know, when you don't know what someone is laughing at, you just start laughing, she says, what are you laughing at?

I was trying to hide it and she looked and I was looking beautiful oh my god oh my god it was literally oh my god something gets so bad it's so bad it pushes you through yeah into comedy again she was the mother she said something so bad and then they just cut her face off and she was so sad. I just want to say, I'm not going to lie being honest, I was gasping, I was literally, so I was laughing so hard, the woman I didn't know on the other side of my wife was laughing and then my wife started hitting me on the shoulder.

I just gave it like the tablet, no, she's one of my favorite things and we're always watching TV and she's always crying and I'm. I was laughing out loud like I used to watch The Biggest Loser and these fat people were crying how about all the cookies and hamburgers they were eating and they were crying like they lost a dog or something and she was crying because I'll just be laughing out loud so No, most of the world is starving, that's why I'm 50 years old. I went to India and I saw this level of poverty that maybe I want to adopt all the kids here and then you just come.

Back to America and this is a feeling of neglect oh you just can't

help

it that I ignore you it was so funny oh and uh oh this won't end and then it won't and then it's like this won't end and then what is it because my wife ever will hear this, my wife gets mad at me for laughing, she makes it like oh man, I have worse than that, I have worse bug attacks, people won't laugh at this one because they tell you you're supposed to no to no, no, that It's not this shit, some guy beat up his girlfriend, right, you know how to get a crowd, you got 'em, you had 'em, you say, yeah, I can get over that, yeah, she's supposed to watch the

news

, really?

Am I supposed to be? It goes oh time or you can laugh, I mean, it's a choice that I have to like, how does it

help

me?, but how good she wanted you to do it. I want to hear you bring this up, so my wife was so sad about it that I had to make a joke because I wasn't mature enough to be sad with her, right, so I was saying, what do you think she said? What do you think that last thing she said? You know, yes, exactly, so she gets angry. Did she get very angry?

Because? Did she marry you? She is lovely. I met her. She is wonderful. About a week later, my mother-in-law comes. I don't say it and she just says I wonder what the last thing she said was. I died laughing. My mother-in-law died laughing after my wife left the room. Yes, but at the end of the day neither of them hit her. Like she couldn't hear us laughing I'm not happy that happened well I don't understand what the

news

is there are a lot of you that can't fix what happened that was horrible do you know what my gym is in my gym?

They literally turn on CNN and it's just the entire state of California on school shootings and it's like I'm coming out of this. I'm on an elliptical and I have to watch people's houses burn down. How long are we supposed to We're trying to make this look like three hours on the elliptical, so we should show like I don't know Dumb and Dumber. I think this is going well. I think it's going great.