Bill Burr Can't Help But Laugh When He Watches The News | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I want to talk to you about this this project this movie that you're working on because it's a it's something that you and I have talked about because we are friends we have dined together we've hung out our wives have hung out it's just pictures with big chalices and candelabras we did I had a suit of armor brought in the corner you're talking about uh this movie that you've made is a subject that's near and dear to your heart it's about being dads older dads old dads old dads there was something that came about by

you know uh not getting my together and having kids really late in life like I'm 54 my kids are five and two and um I didn't realize like how much the world had changed like my daughter's in kindergarten now and I was in kindergarten 50 years ago so just the whole way that they teach like everything literally I'd be like oh you're in the jungle gym and she'd be like it's called the structure and then I'd be like yeah and then I'd be like oh my God I said jungle am I you know did I've

said borderline racist now like what did I just say and you just start freaking out and uh uh you know just sort of it's it lives sort of in that world and then also all of this this world now of where you know you you go back into somebody's Twitter account eight years and find a bad tweet and they're like this is who this guy is this guy's an and it's like I always looked at it like you had to go back eight years before this guy was an that's a that's an amazing like Lou

Gehrig run of not being an ass if you went seven years like this guy was totally cool but in 2014 oh you know that one random Wednesday he was really in a mood yeah and and it was just weird someone who I you know I lean left I'm not 100 left it's sort of like you know um I just thought that whole era was really fascinating to watch people like just trying to just sort of Ruin people like I understood the beginning of it when they were going after these monstrous people but then it just

became this this you know like these Ticky tack misdemeanors and they were just like just burn them down I was like for Frankenstein movie like they were all coming up the Hill so um it's sort of you know subtly lives in that world too right and and and you know one of the things that I relate to you on is we both come from like I say a similar part of the country I'm a little bit older than you and but I do relate very much when you talk about being a dad uh you often

relate it to when you were contrasted with when we were kids and that's something that hits home with me because you know I had kids later in life now they're teenagers but in the early stages I remember thinking this does not resemble the childhood that I have in any way yeah you know because first of all the uh the fact that so much care and attention is spent on each child it's something that was no I'm not saying that I love my parents but it was a different attitude there were six of us and I

remember very clearly at any given time if you ask my mother my father you know where's Conan they'd be like I don't know you know he's yeah you know you know no one knew exactly where you were they just sent you outside like that was a lot of it they just sort of sent you outside and you went out and you just met other kids your age and came up with stuff to do when you were outside and then eventually you ran into older kids and then they just beat the out of you and then

this is where and then you came up like that I did a cartoon for Netflix called episode family one of the First episodes is a scene where the young me and his friend are up in a tree and these guys start throwing rocks us and shooting fireworks and that was based on a true story there wasn't fireworks but it was just me and a friend of mine were climbing trees we're just climbing a tree because that's what you did before the no internet that was like that was going online climbing a tree and risking your

life so we climbed up this tree and these bigger kids came by and they saw us up there and they just started throwing rocks at us until their arms got tired we're up there like Brian getting hit in the ankles and in the back and then you just climb down the tree and then the ghost guys arousal but I remember number that and I bring this up because the minute that our uh my daughter could drive or my my son could drive my wife would check and she could show me on the phone where they

were and I thought that's just blows my mind it doesn't it doesn't shade Edgar Hoover yeah yeah it doesn't feel right to me that we are that accountable all the time and sometimes I wonder if I'm just jealous of there's it's there's a different there's like a care and attention I see what you mean do you know what I mean and I wonder because when I watch your comedy when I when I watched you at Red Rocks and you're talking about anytime you're talking about your child your dad how the how the house was tense

or there was anger people weren't dealing with things appropriately uh I think yeah I know what you're talking about was an ERA and I think I sometimes when I'm seeing my family and my wife's handling everything so beautifully for some reason I become enraged no I guess why where was well what do you mean they eat you're looking him in the eye and talking to them what was this I totally get that I'm about one time being in like uh a grocery store or something like that and I saw this this kid he started crying

about something and his mother went over and started hugging him and comforting him and I immediately I just felt this urge to go over and trip this little kid oh my God and then another time I remember the grocery store because that's where a lot of you know moms have like the kids and stuff and this kid was going like yeah Mom can I have candy and she was just like no and then he started crying and it made me laugh I was going to be like yeah I get used to that kid so um

so you enjoy happiness and pain of a child I thought I did but that was just me with all of my I was jealous of the kid who's getting hugged and then I was laughing at the other kid because I related like I remember when a long time ago I saw a sling blade when it was in the movie theater and I remember when when when he zoomed that guy out of the house in the wheelchair he's like get out of my house and he zoomed him out like I was all helpless I roared with

laughter and I remember I was with you these these actors that I was working on stuff and they looked at me in this horrified way right and I couldn't explain you had to be a comedian to understand like I think actors and comedians they process pain differently right where actors I think are more like examining it where comedians you just pave it over and it's like you're just laughing not cause you're happy that happened to someone in a wheelchair you're just laughing just how mean it was I told you about this that one time my

wife was on the plane with me and she we were going somewhere far so she had like a tablet and I started watching a movie and she had fallen asleep and I was I was watching a movie and I was laughing so hard I woke her up and then she you know when you don't know what somebody's laughing at you just start laughing she's like what are you laughing at I was trying to hide it and she looked and I was watching precious oh my God God oh my God it was literally oh my God

some it just gets so mean it's just so mean it pushes you through yeah into comedy again she was the mother said something so mean and then they just cut to her face and she was she was so sad I just I mean I'm not gonna lie being honest I was wheezing I was literally so I was laughing so hard the woman I didn't know on the other side of my wife was laughing and then my wife started punching me in the shoulder I just gave it like the tablet no she's so that's one of

my favorite things and we're always watching TV and she's forever getting teared up and I'm laughing my ass off like she used to watch The Biggest Loser and these these fat people would be crying how about all the cookies and burgers they were eating and they were crying like they lost a dog or something and she would be crying that I would just be laughing my ass off so so no most of the world is starving that's why like I'm 50. I went to like India and I saw this level of poverty that I just

maybe want to adopt every kid over here and then you just come back to America and this is slovingly feel oh you just can't stop me ignoring you it was just so hilarious oh and uh oh this won't end and then no and then then it's like this won't and then what it is it's because my wife will ever hear this my wife gets mad at me for laughing it makes it like oh dude I have worse ones than that I got worse ones error attack people not gonna laugh at this one because you're told

you're not supposed to no no that's not this crap some dude beat out of his girlfriend right you know how to get a crowd you have them you had them you're like yes I can top that yeah she's supposed to watch the news am I really supposed to be going oh time or you can laugh I mean it's a choice I have to like how does it help me but how okay I wanted you to I want to hear you pull this out so my wife was so sad about it that I had to make

a joke because I wasn't mature enough to be sad with her right so I was going like what do you think she said what do you think that that last thing she said right you know yeah exactly so she gets all mad right [Laughter] got really mad why did she marry you she's lovely I've met her she's wonderful like a week later my mother-in-law comes over right the story comes on the news stories over she goes I know I shouldn't say this my wife goes mom don't say it and she just goes I wonder what

the last thing she said I died laughing my my mother-in-law died laugh after my wife started out of the room yeah but the end of the day neither one of us beat her up so like she can't hear us laugh I'm not happy that that happened well there's I don't understand what the news is it's a bunch of you can't fix that happened that was horrible do you know what my gym at my gym they literally play CNN and it's just the whole state of Californians on fire school shootings and it's like I'm coming in

get away from this I'm on a elliptical and I gotta watch people's houses burning down right right how long are you supposed you're trying to make this seem like three hours on the elliptical so we should be showing like I don't know Dumb and Dumber I think this is going good I think it's going great