Journalism is not a Standup comedy. We are not in the same world.
So what is your responsibility?
My responsibility is to make you laugh. And, if I am malicious, people know. People know if you speak it or not. So what people have done …You People, you journalists, for a while, and not even because you made you fuck, just because it was the hot story – suddenly, you would finish your act, and someone would be, like: “I want to tell you about some of the statements you have made.” “”Affirmations? I was up there to tell jokes.
One of the great things in Standing Comedy is freedom and irreverence. I’m not saying it can’t be done in the wrong direction. I am not saying that there has never been any racist person on stage to make jokes, someone ignorant. There is this in each company. But what they did was that they used this to try to shape the art form. The liberals did this, trying to control the fucking art. And the liberal actors who sucked then used it as a way to try to get more clicks and rise.
I had people who said fucked up on the internet, then they come to me – “Hey, Bill, how are your family?” And I want to be, like: “You don’t kiss my family.” But I can’t, because they are a white woman, so I can’t say anything because, oh, my God, when a white woman complains, the fucking people listen. So I’m just cordial. And they are liberals, guy.
Are we only going to talk about it? Because I don’t want to be like this guy in Ideal Policy.
No, no, that’s good. (At this point, I operated the screen on my phone to make sure it was always saved, and my locking screen was on: a photo of my two young children.))
It’s just life there, guy. Do you have two children?
Yeah.
What do you have?
Two boys. So far.
Oh, it’s great. (Burr lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles, but during the “Glengarry” race, they spent long stretches from time to time.) It was the most difficult thing to make this game.
I did a lot of work on myself with all this time alone. I really participated in this mission to get rid of my hair trigger temperament, which, I discovered, comes from all the pain of your childhood. So, especially with my wife, like, I have one thing that when someone does not agree with me, I start to be a defenseless child when no one listens to me. This is how my brain is wired. And it’s not fair for my wife, because we are just trying to decide in which restaurant to go.
I had these really deep and sometimes painful conversations, you know, because I don’t like revisiting this kind of thing. Who does? Who wants to go back and plunder on shit that was not fun? And just because all these bad things happen right now, this heartless period in which we are – this thief barons, these new thieves’ barons – that does not mean that you have to give in to this mentality. So I really have – I was a clogged, and I’m not now. I realize that one of the things that comes with age is this great responsibility to encourage and help young people. And I love to do it. It feels good. It brings me out of my own head.
This is why I stopped looking at the news of the company, CNN and Fox, because these people prefer to win rather than reason. They just try to win. They didn’t really try to find the solution. And it was, as, extremely depressing. So, my phone probably listened to me as I spoke, and all of a sudden this thing came across my Instagram flow, because I do not read now, and he said that the ancient Greek philosophers had these two mentalities: there are philosophy And philonikia. Philosophy is the love of knowledge and growth, or something else. I disagree with you – my identity is not my opinions. So I can listen to you, respect you and I can be influenced if what you say has merit. And then Philoniki is the love of victory, which is great if you play sports, but not if you are, you know, to speak to your wife. For example, I do not know how many times I have been in an argument with my wife or someone, and halfway, I realize that I am wrong, and in my head, I just think, Guy, you are wrong. You are wrong. And I will not type.
But I find, with my wife, that if I stay in there – “I am not trying to win anything here. I’m just trying to hear what you say ” – and I don’t lift the voice, then it comes back again. I will tell you this: if you really listen to the woman in your life, she blows from their mind.
So I try to live now in empathy. I have a lot of empathy for everyone, unless you were injured in people. I don’t care who you are, where you come from, from your political trends, the music you listen to. I don’t care. You are a human compatriot and I want to vibrate with you. I want to find the common ground. I don’t want to enter this shit argued. This is how they separate you, then they take these big subjects. Because these guys make this shit, prohibiting these books – do you think they will stop in these books? We now return to the industrial revolution. All these people died and started their heads so that we can work, and we simply let them remove. They used to have children of five and six who worked by ten hours of machines, losing fingers and stuff, and they did not fuck. These heartless people are the same heartless people today. They don’t care.
I just want to emphasize that you are the one who continues to raise politics.
I know. I try to be a man of the people. ♦