Bill Burr

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name = Bill Burr


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birth_date = 1968
birth_place = Canton, Massachusetts U.S.
medium = Stand-up
nationality = United States
active = 1990s – Present
genre = Cringe humor, Black comedy, Satire, Observational comedy
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website = [http://www.billburr.com billburr.com]
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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. After eight months of intimate exposure to Mets and Yankees fans, he 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 Shakeytown, 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 for an incident in Philadelphia as a part of Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour. After the crowd began to boo him mercilessly, Burr decided to fight back. He abandoned his scripted material entirely, proceeding to hurl profanity-laced insult after insult toward the crowd themselves and the city of Philadelphia. 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 " [http://www.myspace.com/uninformedradio "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 "" 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 Donell Rawlings. Much of the material from this tour later turned up on Burr’s HBO stand-up special.

As with other comics associated with "The Opie & Anthony Show", in 2008, Bill's voice was featured in the game Grand Theft Auto IV. In the game, Bill plays a member of a biker gang in the mission "No Love Lost".

Discography

* "" (2007)

External links

* [http://www.billburr.com Official website]
* [http://onetrickpony.ws/bill_burr Interview From September 2005]
* [http://www.myspace.com/uninformedradio Uninformed Official Page on MySpace]
* [http://www.jesterjournal.com/BillBurr.htm "Bill Burr: Comedy's Future" An appreciation from Jester (JesterJournal.com)]
* [http://www.WhatAreRecords.com/BillBurr Burr's home on What Are Records?]
* [http://www.jesterjournal.com/BillBurr08.htm Review of "Why Do I Do This?" on JesterJournal.com]