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.
00:00When I was reading the YouTube comments on the trailer, all of the top comments were about you playing JFK in this movie.
00:07How did this role come about for you?
00:10This guy here, he just asked me to do it.
00:13It was one day I just came down, they put me in a suit, threw a wig on my head and I did it.
00:18I did watch a couple of the press conferences and stuff to try to get some of his mannerisms so I wouldn't be doing too tired of an impression.
00:26I mean, it's kind of funny, the impression people do of him, he doesn't really even sound like that.
00:32So that's something that I noticed.
00:34But I'm glad, you know, anytime I do something and people like it, I'm happy.
00:38I feel like I got away with something.
00:40When you first saw yourself in the wig, what was your reaction?
00:44I mean, I think I was too busy making sure I knew what I was going to do to really sort of take it in.
00:51It was just more like, I like to do a couple of takes and then I feel, alright, I didn't get fired, nobody's yelling at me, okay, I can have fun with this, you know.
01:04What was Jerry like as a director?
01:06He was great, he was great.
01:07He was a comedian, you know, all the fats trimmed off of it, right to the funny.
01:12Knew what he wanted, let me improv, if he liked it, we kept it.
01:17If not, he used to be like, you know, don't do that, go more in this direction, very quick too, it was awesome.
01:24I mean, I literally, right over there in Gower, went over there, pulled in, the sun was still out when I left, it was awesome.
01:33Quick and painless.
01:34Yeah, it was tremendous.
01:36Jerry recently said in an interview that he feels like stand-up comedy is really having a surge right now and it's an enduring medium because it's something that you can't fake.
01:45What's your take on that?
01:46It's something you can't what?
01:47Something you can't fake.
01:50Well, I think it's kind of working in these times because people just devour content and we can only do a joke once, you don't want to hear it again, so it's sort of, it sort of forces us to kind of work at the pace people are watching stuff, you know, for better or for worse, but everything can be fake though.
02:12Trying to keep up with that pace, does that make it more difficult? Do you feel like it's more challenging right now to be in comedy?
02:20That is an internal battle, so if you put that on yourself, I think it would be, but I was very lucky when I started.
02:28I started back before all this craziness, so, and then I've been able to benefit off of the internet and all of that stuff, but you know, I'm really happy for the younger comics that they can sort of decide what they want to put out and not put out.
02:47So that aspect of it is good, but I'm kind of glad the internet wasn't around because I don't think I would want people to see anything I did in the first eight years.
02:56It's pretty bad, pretty bad.
02:58Are there 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, um, all right, well, Steph Tolliv, uh, Bianca Cristobal, uh, Nate Craig, Paul Verzi, Joe Bartnick.
03:15These aren't, like, these aren't really, those last guys, you know, they're, they're, they've been doing it, but they're ready.
03:21You know what I mean?
03:22So, um, I know, uh, Fahim Anwar, I'm so bad at this.
03:27I always have, like, a bunch of, I gotta start making a list so I get everybody, um, Robert Powell, the third.
03:34Rob, I just did a gig with that guy, oh my god, oh my god, amazing.
03:38Um, I know when I walk away I'm gonna think of a bunch of other people.
03:43Uh, shit.
03:45But that was a good list, you listed a lot of people.
03:47Yeah, yeah.
03:47Okay, all right.
03:49It was so, it was so great talking to you, thank you so much.
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