![]() ![]() What the freak did that guy do? What he do? He told other people what to invent. "He changed the world! The world was one way! And then Steve Jobs came, and it was another!" What did he do? Somebody, for the love of god. When he died, they're like, "He changed the world." That's insane. I didn't get the big deal made about that guy. I’ve never seen an hour of TV as funny as a great Louis CK special or a Chris Rock special.Actually nerd Jesus died last year, right? - Steve jobs. You’re never more free than as a standup comedian. “Even if your name is on it, it’s not your show, it’s their show (so) it’s kinda like getting a desk job. For him, those small parts beat the prospect of a commercially compromised show built around him. ![]() That abrasive quality also gets him work as a comic supporting actor: Melissa McCarthy’s brother in this summer’s The Heat, for example, or recurring appearances as Kuby in Breaking Bad. Whether he’s deriding Steve Jobs as “nerd Jesus” with a sweatshop or lamenting the rise of geek culture (“this is what happens when you get rid of bullying”), Burr says starting with an unsympathetic perspective keeps ever-savvier comedy audiences off balance. Thirty-five years old, you’re playing hide and go seek, you’re living the dream!” Dude, any job you can do in your pyjamas is not a difficult job. But these mothers are bending over at the waist putting DVDs into DVD players. what would you rather be doing, drilling to the centre of the Earth, shaking hands with the devil every time there’s a rumble in the ground?. “Oh yeah, all those mothers who die every year from black lung, from inhaling all that coal dust. Take a moment in his 2010 special Let It Go, as he heaped scorn on calling motherhood the world’s hardest job: ![]() The mature, blunt version of Burr became a frank confessor of his failings - anger, principally - and a defiant challenger of accepted banalities. After a while, without you really noticing, it morphs into ‘What do I want to talk about.’ ” “For this first I don’t know how many years of my career, there was always that thought of ‘what’s the crowd like,’ what are they like. “All of a sudden you get onstage and you think, ‘Oh, can I get away with that?’” 21, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre as part of JFL 42. “The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it,” says the 45-year-old Bostonian, who’ll be doing two shows on Saturday, Sept. Courting disapproval is something he’s known for, so it’s enlightening to hear him say he wasn’t always so fearless. The opinionated standup comedian is a nervy live performer, holding forth on gender and race and pacing the stage like a ginger jaguar. ![]()
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