Accountability in Entertainment • Page 171

he’s a whiny pissbaby who won’t shut up about “cancel culture” despite being a millionaire white dude comedian with his own animated sitcom and multiple standup comedy specials on Netflix

 

I mean, he kinda had a point with John Wayne. Like the man’s been dead for almost 50 years, what you gain from dredging that interview up? That he’s racist and has been known to be so for decades? It’s just hand wringing for the sake of it.

 

Pretty sure multiple people brought up how ridiculous it was when that resurfaced. It died out pretty quick.

 

obviously you can't "cancel" a dead person but I think it's important to know we've lionized a lot of shitty people as a society

 

Oh absolutely, I agree.

 

Burr bums me out because he genuinely could be a great comedian but he goes for low hanging fruit waaaaaay too often and it's turned him into a millionaire whining about cancel culture which is funnier than any joke he could come up with now.

 

So I’m confused here, y’all know how Burr’s material is but you’re gonna act like it’s bad now?

 

He’s a whiny crybaby, that’s all

 

He has always been extremely problematic.

 

That’s literally the majority of stand up comics, come on.

 

[Seinfeld voice] “What’s the deal with styrofoam?!”

 

“Why can’t I recycle it?! I throw it in the trash and animals just die!”
*Seinfeld slap bass riff*

 

i'm not uniformly opposed to comedy that pushes the lines/could be offensive to some. but, like, he also wasn't funny lol. kind of a lose-lose.

 

Only the white male ones
Seriously though it's the worst form of comedy

 

I think Bill Burr's stand-up was, at one point, generally funny and innocuous, but his last special was unwatchable because of the subject matter. He's also pushed back against other dumb edgelords (Bill Maher comes to mind) and said a lot of smart things (relatively speaking) about accountability and PC culture prior to 2019, so I don't really know what happened.

Didn't watch the monologue yet, idk how bad it was.

 

most standup comics aren’t crying about how they can’t tell the kinds of jokes they want to tell anymore while they’re on stage filming a special for Netflix and getting paid tons of money to tell whatever kinds of jokes they want

and the ones that are doing that are whiny babies

 

I watched the monologue and really didn’t think it was that bad. *shrug*

 

I just wanna point out that if you wanna call out white male comedians, maybe don’t do it on a site that’s like 99% white male and routinely runs off women and PoC. Just a thought.

 

Like goddamn, are there any women or PoC in this discussion? How about LGTBAQI people?

 

Noah Bradley fucking sucks

 

Burr can be funny outside of his standup, it's almost kinda weird seeing his standup material compared to him on talk shows because the content seems so different.

 

I'm a trans woman of color and I check this thread all the time but I'm not familiar with Burr so idk? I'm not about to watch a clip of him if it's gonna irritate me.

 

That, and his delivery is arguably more performative than it needs to be sometimes. Why Do I Do This and Let It Go were flame but he'll probably never match those again.

I dunno, maybe I'm going too hard on him since that SNL video is still some of the funniest stand up I've seen this year? It's possible my opinions on stuff could be clouded by personal truths to some extent though. Maybe I'm wrong and the all the criticsms are more on point.

He's not a transphobe (as far as I know) or racist but his sensibilities do lean a bit more towards-the fellas-, though it might be fair to say he has more perspective/insight than most dudebro comics he's compared to. His recent specials are hit or miss depending on who you ask. If the SNL clip, Why Do I Do This, Let it Go and his podcast don't click, I dunno.

 

the only time I liked Burr was in that clip of him talking about masks on Rogan that circulated a few weeks back

 

Mal Blum tweeted about Burr being a transphobe and provided examples of his transphobic comments in subsequent tweets but I'll just link to the original so nobody has to read those in case they find them to be upsetting.