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Do you know how many times a week people ask me why I’m yelling?

Bill Burr

ou’re in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke – or if you’re on the road, go to a ball game…
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Brain Control Decide Game Road Sending
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
If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you’re from and some of the thought processes.
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Chance Country East
Haven’t you noticed that every time the government f-ks up McDonald’s has a new sandwich?
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Government Mcdonalds Sandwiches
When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It’s always been high quality stuff coming out of there.
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Coming Out Quality Stuff
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’ve found is that by doing stand-up, I’ve actually learned how to combat depression. I don’t have clinical, but I’ve definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it’s a choice. Y
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Blood Bouts Choice Games Writing
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
Any other town you go to there’s this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder.
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Angel Funny Vegas
I couldn’t trash [Adolf] Hitler enough. Poor bastards, they make all these contributions to the automotive industry, aeronautics, space – but you pick one wrong guy and it’s all out the window. They’re never gonna live that one down.
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Guy Space Window
Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.
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Away Dropped Noticed Right
It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there.
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Golf Thinking Yelling
People should be happy to see you when you show up to a club because you’re a good person. And stop caring about what the industry is “looking for”. Just say what you think is funny. .
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Caring People Thinking
Michael Price is the showrunner so nobody works harder than him.
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Hard Nobody Work Harder
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
You’ll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There’s no risk when you go after a dream. There’s a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.
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Fantasizing Play Safe Sleep Tremendous

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