bill burr

Canton, Massachusetts U.S. Medium Stand-up Nationality United States Years active 1990s – Present Genres Cringe humor, Black comedy, Satire, Observational comedy Website billburr.com

Bill Burr (aka Billy Burr) is an American stand-up comedian, born June 10, 1968 in Canton, Massachusetts.

In 1995, he moved to New York City and lived there for eight months. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on a number of film and television projects. Returning to New York City in 1999, he lived in the Big Apple for the next nine years before moving back to L.A., where he currently resides.

He performs over three hundred shows annually, had two movies released in 2006, and has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman. In 2004, he began working on Chappelle's Show, and in September 2005, his HBO One Night Stand special aired. Along with many other projects, Burr has also been a guest comedian on the Bob and Tom Show as well as on the Opie and Anthony Show on XM Satellite Radio, sometimes sitting in when third member Jim Norton is away. He has also performed on the Comedy Central Presents show.

In 2006, he gained notoriety among comedic circles for an incident in Camden, New Jersey as a part of Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour. Prior to Burr, comedian Dom Irrera was booed and wasn't given an opportunity to perform his material. He embarrassingly walked off. Burr, the following comedian, criticized the audience as shallow. Booing mercilessly in retaliation at Burr (never giving him a true opportunity to perform his material), fought back. He abandoned his scripted material entirely, proceeding to hurl profanity-laced insult after insult toward the crowd (mostly from nearby Philadelphia). He incorporated historic Philadelphia references into the tirade. He continued in this off-the-cuff manner for over ten minutes, and was treated to a lengthy standing ovation as he left the stage.

On December 16, 2006, Burr hosted a three-hour radio show on Opie and Anthony's XM radio channel program The Virus (channel 202) titled "Uninformed with Bill Burr & Joe DeRosa" from 9pm-12am. The second Uninformed show aired February 10, 2007 from 9pm-12am.

In September 2007 Burr signed with Colorado independent label What Are Records?. His debut album Emotionally Unavailable: Expanded Edition was released October 16, 2007.

Emotionally Unavailable carries content previously available only in Burr’s stand-up shows. It features a completely unedited set with Burr covering topics from rednecks to inadvertent racism to relationship books to crazy people on the subway. The Expanded Edition augments that album with previously unreleased highlights from a different tour - the Houston stop of the I’m Rich Biatch Tour which Bill co-headlined with Chappelle's Show cast mates Charlie Murphy and Donnell Rawlings. Much of the material from this tour later turned up on Burr’s HBO stand-up special.

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