Bill Burr gave a no-holds-barred interview to Vulture where he called CNN and Fox News a “fucking disease” and railed against conservatives like Ben Shapiro for trying to brand him as some “woke” comedian. Burr and Shapiro got into a public spat earlier this year when Shapiro blasted Burr for “going woke” after the comedian took aim at “selfish” and “greedy” CEOs in the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson.
“He doesn’t even know what that word means,” Burr now told Vulture about Shapiro. “His definition of woke is white liberals’ definition of woke, and they didn’t even know what it was; they just took the word from Black people. That’s the worst thing about our people — not only do we take from other cultures, we don’t even take the time to understand the definition.”
Burr’s comedy has become increasingly political in recent years, although he makes a point to lambast both the right and the left. This decision has resulted in each side of the political aisle accusing Burr of siding with the other, not that the comedian cares anymore.
“I trash ’em both because that is my job,” Burr told Vulure. “I can’t fix the political system, but when I do stand-up, if I start trashing, like, Trump, I’d hear the left in the crowd go, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah!’ And I’d be like, ‘The fuck? You voted for a guy that is staring off into space. Your guy literally should be in a fucking home. What are you patting yourself on the back for? Your fucking party has not let you choose your candidate since Obama’s second term. You’re liberal? That’s fucking insane.’ I’m not flying either one of their flags; it’s the people who pay them that’s the problem. And they’re always distracting us with other stuff. CNN and Fox News are a fucking disease.”
Burr is a treasure
Someone like him could have actually beat Trump. We need populists like Burr, who look and sound like Burr. The time for policy wonks and career politicians may just be over. The age of Brawndo is dawning.
He’s my all-time favorite comedian. I cannot imagine anything these assholes could say that would get under his skin. “Eh. Go fuck yaself!”
And they’re feeding him material! To paraphrase an old one:
“The question Republicans should be asking yourself is, we’re so goddamn smart, how are we in the situation we’re in?”
CNN will attempt to defend itself. Fox will wear it like a badge of honor.
That’s the state of this shitty 2 party system
People keep playing along the party lines so it is clearly working
I think the US now needs significantly more people like Burr, who refuse to be intimidated by this regime and all their henchmen, even though they must expect immediate retaliation.
If more people don’t speak up and organize, there will soon be no way to voice criticism, because then dissidents - even US citizens - will disappear unheard, as is the case in other dictatorships.
Burr has a knack for just laser targetting on the bullshit and telling it to fuck off.
Stupidest fucking word…
I dunno, the original meaning was kind of cool.
Removed by mod
Yah I know not being asleep was kind of nice.
I like being asleep. I wait my whole day for it.
No it was also intentionally dumb specifically to mock the right for being so dramatic about weird shit.
That link is cool, thanks for the history lesson! The Wide Awakes seem kinda awesome for their time…
It doesn’t seem to relate to the rest of your comment though… They were an antislavery, pro Lincoln group? What was the internationally dumb part?
My point was that the term has been used forever to be a mocking insult to the right, the dumb part is that it’s a intentionally childish insult. We’re awake while you’re still sleeping, naner naner boo boo or whatever. But yeah they seem like they could be fun cats to some extent or another.
Well… That still seems cool to me.
“His definition of woke is white liberals’ definition of woke, and they didn’t even know what it was; they just took the word from Black people. That’s the worst thing about our people — not only do we take from other cultures, we don’t even take the time to understand the definition.”
This was a powerful line from Burr.
Another word they’re trying to change the definition of is Antifacist. Some serious doublespeak.
Wow I didn’t really expect Burr to align so strongly against the system but I’m here for it.
Really? The guy who compared pedophile priests and the church’s behavior to seaworld is someone you didn’t expect to say this?
He is the closest we’re ever gonna get to Carlin
I actually think he’s better. Every bit as fearless, hits every bit as hard, but he can get me laughing out loud.
All right y’all, I’ll say it for you: HERETIC!
Don’t sell the future short.
Why not? His whole career is being anti-bullshit
He’s always been like this. Always.
Then wtf did you expect? He’s always been like this
Have you never seen standup or any interviews with him?
Oh both sides commedian. Biden is still the best president of my lifetime because of what is administration did in one term. Calling out while being part of the very problem he called out on.
Best president of our lifetime ain’t saying much. Like I agree, at least for the first two years, but who’s the competition? One low ass bar right there.
Well im old, but even then yeah. low bar. I bring it up because some people seem fine to risk getting a horrible president for the bar of historical presidents instead of one that exceeds that low bar with the idea that instead we will have something that has never happened historically somehow make it better.
Not a fan of burr, hes one of those guys who has an opinion about everything, even shit he knows nothing of, and his Schtick is “I dunno anything about this , but……” he also feeds and encourages people like Rogan and the manosphere by dancing for their money while saying hes against them
Ah yes, prefacing comedy with an indication that what he’s about to say shouldn’t be taken as an academic truth… what a bastard.
Dude needs to focus his comedy on whatever niche hobby he has the most factual knowledge about instead of talking about uncertain and/or complex socio-political issues at the forefront of our cultural attention.
And doing it for money no less? Smh
I bet your mom also told you you’re smart
Your mom told me I taste great
