“I have been on the road for the last five months . . . really thinking the worst of people.”
This is how comedian Bill Burr opens his 2010 stand-up special Let It Go, right before he launches into a tirade detailing his disgust for the human biomass he regularly encounters at the airport. It’s a sentiment you’d expect from a comedian who is known first and foremost for his anger. But contrast that with how he opens his most recent stand-up special, 2025’s Drop Dead Years:
“It’s kind of a weird thing to be over fifty, really starting to realize how fucked up you are. I thought I did stand-up because I loved comedy. I did stand-up because that was the easiest way to walk into a room full of a bunch of people that I didn’t know and make everybody like me.”
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