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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up70·11 months agoHe didn’t just call them out, he called them out on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel averaged 1,720,000 viewers a night last year and that doesn’t count people watching the next day, or even later, on YouTube. Bill Burr has always been a “no fucks given” kind of guy and I respect him for that.
minus-squarecrank0271@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down1·11 months agoHe won my respect when he won over Philly by insulting every single person in it - while in Philly. (I can’t believe this happened 18 years ago.) https://youtu.be/bWuXfIZiSqY
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·11 months agoDamn. Booing Dom Irerra is low even for Philly. That guy is like comedy dynamite. He makes sports funny to me and I couldn’t give less of a shit about sports.
minus-squareAlenalda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoIt turns into almost an aristocrats joke. Not really a fan of his, but he delivered it well.
minus-squareSatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoBill Burr became culturally relevant by being controversial.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoYou mean like most successful stand-up comedians?
minus-squareSatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoLike Joey Diaz or Bill Cosby?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoOr, you know, George Carlin or Richard Pryor.
He didn’t just call them out, he called them out on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Kimmel averaged 1,720,000 viewers a night last year and that doesn’t count people watching the next day, or even later, on YouTube.
Bill Burr has always been a “no fucks given” kind of guy and I respect him for that.
He won my respect when he won over Philly by insulting every single person in it - while in Philly. (I can’t believe this happened 18 years ago.)
https://youtu.be/bWuXfIZiSqY
Damn. Booing Dom Irerra is low even for Philly.
That guy is like comedy dynamite. He makes sports funny to me and I couldn’t give less of a shit about sports.
It turns into almost an aristocrats joke. Not really a fan of his, but he delivered it well.
Bill Burr became culturally relevant by being controversial.
You mean like most successful stand-up comedians?
Like Joey Diaz or Bill Cosby?
Or, you know, George Carlin or Richard Pryor.