Bill Burr on How Different Comedy is Today at the 'Unfrosted' Premiere | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Bill Burr tells THR how "people just devour content" while at the 'Unfrosted' premiere. Plus, he talks about how comedy is different today and the new comedians he thinks are funny.

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00:00When I was reading the YouTube comments on the trailer all of the top comments

00:04were about you playing JFK in this movie how did this role come about for you?

00:10This guy here he just asked me to do it it was one day I just came down they

00:15put me in a suit threw a wig on my head and I did it I did watch a couple of the

00:19the press conferences and stuff to try to get some of his mannerism so I

00:23wouldn't be doing too tired of an impression I mean it's kind of funny the

00:29impression people do of him he doesn't really even sound like that so that's

00:32something that I noticed but uh I'm glad you know anytime I do something and

00:36people like it I'm happy I feel like I got away with something when you first

00:40saw yourself in the wig what was your reaction I mean I don't I think I was

00:48too busy making sure I knew what I was gonna do to really sort of take it in it

00:54was just more like just doing a guy I like to do a couple of takes and then I

00:58feel all right I didn't get fired nobody's yelling at me okay I can have

01:01fun with this you know what was Jerry like as a director he was great he was

01:07great as a comedian you know he all the fats trimmed off of it right to the

01:11funny knew what he wanted let me improv if he liked it we kept it if not he's to

01:18be like you know don't do that go more in this direction very very quick too

01:23it was awesome I mean I literally right over there and Gower went over there

01:28pulled in the Sun was still out when I left it was awesome

01:33quick and painless yeah oh it's tremendous Jerry recently said in an

01:37interview that he feels like stand-up comedy is really having a surge right

01:42now and it's an enduring medium because it's something that you can't fake

01:45what's your take on that it's something you can't what something you can't fake

01:50well I think it's kind of working in these times because people just devour

01:57content and we can only do a joke once you don't want to hear it again so it's

02:03sort of it sort of forces us to kind of work at the pace people are watching

02:08stuff you know for better for worse but everything can be faked up trying to

02:14keep up with that pace does that make it more difficult do you feel like it's

02:17more challenging right now to be in comedy that is an internal battle so if

02:22you if you put that on yourself I think it would be but I was very lucky when I

02:28started I started back before all this craziness so and then I've been able to

02:35benefit off of the internet and all of that stuff but you know I'm really happy

02:40for the the younger comics that they can they can sort of decide what they want

02:46to put out and not put out so that that aspect of it is good but I'm kind of

02:50glad the internet wasn't around because I I don't think I would want people to

02:54see anything I did in the first eight years it's pretty bad pretty bad are

02:58there any young comics new comics right now that you think are really funny

03:02it's always people always ask me this and then I all right well Steph Tolive

03:09Bianca Cristobal, Nate Craig, Paul Verzi, Joe Bartnick they said not like these

03:16aren't really those last guys you know they're there they've been doing it but

03:20they're ready you know what I mean so I know Fahim Anwar I'm so bad at this I

03:27always have like a bunch of I gotta start making a list so I get everybody

03:31Robert Powell the third right I just did a gig with that guy oh my god oh my god

03:37amazing I know when I walk away I'm going to think of a bunch of other

03:42people but that was a good list you listed a lot of people okay all right it

03:49was so it was so great talking to you thank you so much

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