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I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I’m thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I’ve seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal.

Bill Burr

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
Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else’s success is not your failure.
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People Roots Surround Yourself
I’ve battled with that type of stuff, but what I’ve found is that by doing stand-up, I’ve actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don’t have clinical, but I’ve definitely had my bouts with it.
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Battled Clinically Found Stuff Type
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
If you’re on social media as a performer you can tell. If you don’t get any Tweets you know it’s bombed. I can pretty much gauge how it’s doing by comparing the reception to shows I’ve done that have actual ratings.
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Done Gauges Media
I wish they would teach it in schools: Give people the belief that they are going to do well. A lot of people are really talented and scared to follow their talent because you don’t know where it’s going.
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Giving People School
I’m one of those guys where you know, I’m 23 years into this and I love the road more than ever and rather than whittling down my schedule to just play the major cities.
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Cities Play Years
A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they’re really small.
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Anxiety Boys 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
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 don’t think people know what hygienist means.
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Mean People Thinking
The first guy who got Aids was a French flight attendant. How you like that Frenchie! You know when I come back and run for office, that may be the one that comes back and haunts me.
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Guy Office Running
Working on the Dave Chappelle show was amazing.
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Dave Shows Working
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
There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you, like, 17 right off the top of my head.
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Giving Head Reason
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

I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I’m thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I’ve seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal.

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