But there are times where I am doing a character and people don’t understand. That guy onstage is me putting on a show. I would never just rant and rave and have people listen to that! Like, when I’m done doing my act, I want quiet. In your first album, someone gets mad at one of your jokes and you say, “You can’t tell I’m doing a character up here.” Do you still feel like you’re writing jokes for a character - a version of yourself that’s not yourself? Tune in to Good One every Monday on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the episode and read an excerpt from the transcript of the discussion below. This joke the subject of this week’s episode of Good One, Vulture’s podcast about jokes and the people who tell them. The joke eventually comes to reveal, though, that much of that position stems from Burr’s own discomfort with how he looks, and how that fits in the entertainment industry. Take a joke near the top of his most recent Netflix special, Walk Your Way Out: Burr starts out angry at how the media does stories about how Hollywood creates body issues, building on his premise by pointing out that there are bigger problems in the world than body positivity. Where most comedians start a joke out nice and easy, explaining the context and getting everyone onboard, Burr does the equivalent of throwing the audience into the deep end and then trying to pull them back safely. Bill Burr likes to make word hard for himself.
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