Bill Burr

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Bill Burr
Born	1968 Canton, Massachusetts U.S.
Medium	Stand-up
Nationality	United States
Years active	1990's – Present
Genres	Cringe humor, Black comedy, Satire, Observational comedy
Website	billburr.com

Bill Burr (aka Billy Burr) is an American stand-up comedian from Canton, Massachusetts.

In 1995, he moved to New York City. Eight months later, he moved to Los Angeles. There he worked on a number of film and television projects. He returned to New York City in 1999.

He performs over three hundred shows annually, has two movies to be released in 2006, as well as a performance on The Late Show with David Letterman. In 2004, he began working on Chappelle's Show. In September 2005, Burr's HBO One Night Stand special aired. Along with many other projects, he has also been a guest comedian on the Bob and Tom Show as well as Opie and Anthony Show on XM Satellite Radio, sometimes sitting in when third member Jim Norton is away. He has also performed a Comedy Central Presents show which marked the recognition of his talent as a comedian by one of the leading networks in the entertainment business.

In 2006, he gained notoriety for an incident in Philadelphia as a part of Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour. After the crowd began to boo him mercilessly, Burr decided to fight back. He abandoned his scripted material entirely, proceeding to hurl profanity-laced insult after insult toward the crowd themselves and the city of Philadelphia. He continued in this off-the-cuff manner for over ten minutes, and was treated to a lengthy standing ovation as he left the stage.The video of which, taken by Mario Lafleur, can be seen here.[1]

On December 16, 2006, Bill Burr hosted a three-hour radio show on Opie and Anthony's XM radio channel The Virus (channel 202) titled "Uninformed w/ Bill Burr & Joe DeRosa" from 9pm-12am. The second Uninformed show aired February 10, 2007 from 9pm-12am.

In September 2007 Burr signed with Colorado Independent Label What Are Records?. His debut album Emotionally Unavailable: Expanded Edition was released October 16, 2007.

Emotionally Unavailable was previously only available at Burr’s stand-up shows. It features a complete unedited set with Burr covering topics from inadvertent racism to relationship books to crazy people on the subway. The “Expanded Edition” augments that album with previously unreleased highlights from a different tour -the Houston stop of the “I’m Rich Biatch Tour” which Bill co-headlined with Chappelle Show cast mates Charlie Murphy and Donell Rawlings. Much of the material from this tour later turned up on Burr’s HBO stand-up special.