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Bill Burr is a goddamn treasure. One of the few middle aged, male comics from that group that hasn't succumbed to the, "they're gonna cancel me!" brain rot.
And he has such an amazing way of laying things out when he's critical of that mindset that makes it impossible for anyone even slightly reasonable to deny.
Good for Bill Burr.
I don't want to be the one defending Insurance companies because seriously fuck them.
But... Please correct me if I got it wrong, but for the California fires they are accused of refusing to sell insurance policies or asking very high prizes for them, which is a very different thing than selling the policy and then denying and delaying payments after something has happened.
An insurance company saying they won't insure you means that the risk is visibly and insanely high. Which it clearly was. If anything this should have been a pretty loud alarm bell that has been ignored.
What is the difference between refusing to renew a contract and refusing to pay the insurance claim from an "ethical" point of few?
If they refuse to play the claim, they are refusing to provide the service you have already paid them for.
If they refuse to renew a contract, they are not taking your money, and not agreeing to provide the service.
He didn't just call them out, he called them out on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Kimmel averaged 1,720,000 viewers a night last year and that doesn't count people watching the next day, or even later, on YouTube.
Bill Burr has always been a "no fucks given" kind of guy and I respect him for that.
He won my respect when he won over Philly by insulting every single person in it - while in Philly. (I can't believe this happened 18 years ago.)
That was one of the most brutal 'observational comedian' acts I've ever seen.
The constant reminders, "7minutes left", and the going all in on ... everything..
Perfection.
Thanks.
"and I WILL be selling merch after the show" lol
Bill Burr handles a heckler ... when that heckler is Philadelphia.
He speaks our language.
Damn. Booing Dom Irerra is low even for Philly.
That guy is like comedy dynamite. He makes sports funny to me and I couldn't give less of a shit about sports.
Dom Irerra was more open about his sexuality than a lot of the comics of his time, and it always made me respect him.
Rewatching Dr. Katz and thinking about the time period it was in, sometimes Dom feels absolutely subversive to the times.
His obsessive love for Dr. Katz is something a lot of men comics would have been afraid to commit to, even to this day.
He was by far the funniest guest on Dr. Katz and I looked forward to it every time he was on.
Only comic who was in all six seasons, no less.
Rewatched most of Dr Katz recently after not watching it in forever and Dom was really a highlight. Every scene I remember with him was good and seemed to hold up. I didn't get a lot of the show as a teen watching it, but there's so much gold in it now watching it as an adult.
It turns into almost an aristocrats joke. Not really a fan of his, but he delivered it well.
Bill Burr became culturally relevant by being controversial.
You mean like most successful stand-up comedians?
Like Joey Diaz or Bill Cosby?
Or, you know, George Carlin or Richard Pryor.
The clip in question.
They cut him off :(
Yea that was annoying, it's like the billionaires don't want that to be discussed on their network. No such thing as free speech when the platform is owned by the enemy.
Idk man, they certainly aired the most important bit.
Ooooo a celebrity endorsement