| Bill Burr | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 10, 1968 Canton, Massachusetts U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up |
| Nationality | United States |
| Years active | May 1992 – present[1] |
| Genres | Cringe humor, black comedy, satire, observational comedy |
| Subject(s) | Dating, human sexuality, race relations, political correctness, professional sports |
| Influences | Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, George Carlin |
| Website | billburr.com |
William "Bill" Burr (born June 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, radio host and actor.
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Burr was born in Canton, Massachusetts. His father was a dentist, and Bill worked as a hygienist for a short time. He began stand-up at age 23 after attending Emerson College. In 1995, he moved to New York City and lived there for eight months. He then moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked on a number of film and television projects. He returned to New York in 1999 and moved back to Los Angeles in 2008, where he currently resides. He is 5'10" in height and is left handed.
He performs over three hundred shows annually, had two movies released in 2006, and has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. In early 2004, he appeared in two episodes of Chappelle's Show, and in September 2005, his HBO One Night Stand special aired. Along with many other projects, Burr has also been a guest comedian on the Bob and Tom Show as well as on the Opie and Anthony Show on XM Satellite Radio, sometimes sitting in when third member Jim Norton is away. He has also performed on the Comedy Central Presents show.
On December 16, 2006, Burr hosted a three-hour radio show on Opie and Anthony's XM radio channel program The Virus (channel 202) titled "Uninformed with Bill Burr & Joe DeRosa" from 9pm-12am. The second Uninformed show aired February 10, 2007 from 9pm-12am, and the show has continued to run on an irregular schedule about once a month. Since Burr's move to Los Angeles, it has primarily been a pre-taped show, rather than live. The show's collection of free podcasts can be found at http://www.uninformedradio.com/
In September 2007, Burr signed with Colorado independent label What Are Records?. An expanded version of his 2003 debut album Emotionally Unavailable was released October 16, 2007. Emotionally Unavailable carries content previously available only in Burr’s stand-up shows. It features a completely unedited set with Burr covering topics from rednecks to 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's Show cast mates Charlie Murphy and Donnell Rawlings. Much of the material from this tour later turned up on Burr’s HBO stand-up special.
As with other comics associated with The Opie & Anthony Show, in 2008, Burr's voice was featured in the game Grand Theft Auto IV. In the game, Bill plays Jason Michaels of the biker gang the The Lost MC in the mission "No Love Lost". In 2009, he reprised his role in the game's expansion pack The Lost and Damned. He is a Boston Bruins fan and periodically blogs for NHL.com.
He admitted on Chris Hardwick's Nerdist Podcast that he is afraid of the ocean. Burr's most recent special is entitled "Let It Go" which premiered on Comedy Central on September 18, 2010 and was shot at the Fillmore in San Francisco, California. He is referred to by several in the industry as the "Comedian's Comedian". This was confirmed on the Jason Ellis show Dec 2010.
Burr's brother, Robert, is a selectman from Canton, Massachusetts and was briefly a candidate to fill the Massachusetts' vacant seat in the United States Senate after the death of Ted Kennedy in 2009.[2][3]
Burr appeared in the movie Date Night as Detective Walsh. He also appeared in season 4 of AMC's Breaking Bad as Kuby.
Since May 2007, Bill Burr has recorded a weekly one-hour podcast, in which he speaks without reservation and off the cuff about his past and recent experiences, going on tour, and sports. Occasionally, he is joined by his girlfriend Nia, depending on whether she is present in their apartment or not. Burr also appears as a guest on other comedians' podcasts, such as Adam Carolla's podcast (June 16, 2010[4]), The Joe Rogan Experience (June 16, 2010[5]), WTF with Marc Maron (January 11, 2010[6]), and Chris Hardwick's Nerdist podcast (June 29, 2010[7]), where Burr wondered if anyone in the podcast audience was putting trivia about him on Wikipedia based on what he said, specifically whether people know he's terrified of the ocean because of the movie Jaws. Burr was also the very first guest on the Tom Green podcast. On April 18, 2011 he guest hosted the Hollywood Babble-On podcast alongside Ralph Garman, taking the place of a sick Kevin Smith.