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The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I’m in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can’t seem to come up with anything new that’s funny. That’s a tough place to be as a comedian.

Bill Burr

London was like that too. It was that time of year when all the rich kids with the oil money have their cars shipped over.
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Beautiful Country Jobs
My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn’t be funny, but to observe it, it’s hilarious.
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Favorite Happening Kind
I enjoy collaborating with other people.
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Collaborating Enjoy People
Oh look, an ATM! Ok, here we go! I lost all my money, now what do I do? Get a gun! Rob a casino! Good idea! Look at all the lights! This is beautiful.
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Beautiful Gun Light
I keep doing specials because I think there are a lot of people who make movies and TV who are fans of comedy – if they start to like you, they’ll get a project going and call you in.
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Fans People Thinking
As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names… ‘The Thing That Shouldn’t Be’. ‘The Chair That Wasn’t There’, you know?
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Metallica Names Song
Once you do a joke and it works it’s only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Barrels Long Shooting
I started having a panic attack seeing my name in that list of people. It was pretty overwhelming.
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Attack Overwhelming Panic Sudden
So many people there are in politics that they’re overly cautious about laughing at stuff. They’re so damned concerned about what everyone else is thinking.
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Heart Thinking Years
You wanna know how you know you’re informed as a protestor? They don’t show your interview on TV.
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Interviews Television Shows
I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.
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Empathetic People Sadistic
I wasn’t the good looking guy, I wasn’t the hot chick, I wasn’t the fat guy, I didn’t have a catchphrase, I didn’t wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian.
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Comedian Guy Silly
I don’t mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I’ve been pretty busy lately. But I’ve had it the other way, where I’m staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.
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Phones Space Waiting
Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it’s a fun place to live.
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Desert Fun
What are they worried about? Nobody ever walked into a show as a bleeding heart liberal and had a comedian undo 30 years of life experience.
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Experience Heart Liberal Show Worried
There is a very difficult period in a comedian’s career – it’s that window of time where you’re good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.
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Career Comedian Ticket

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I’m in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can’t seem to come up with anything new that’s funny. That’s a tough place to be as a comedian.

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The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I’m in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can’t seem to come up with anything new that’s funny. That’s a tough place to be as a comedian.

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