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Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.

~Bill Burr

Topics: Around Bad Based Because Breaking Breaking Bad Come Comics Ended Idea Know Life Like Maybe Most My Life Out Sitcom Tried Up Why Work Work Out I Tried

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Working on the Dave Chappelle show was amazing.

~Bill Burr

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The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.

~Bill Burr

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I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

~Bill Burr

Topics: Come Find Funnier Had Life Live Make Miserable Misery Think Used Will Would You

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You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

~Bill Burr

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Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

~Bill Burr

Topics: Always Being Come Comic Even Get Going Know Me More More People Only Out People Reasons Show Shows Stand-Up Stepping-Stone Tv Tv Show

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My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is when I'm off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.

~Bill Burr

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I've been guilty of being in the writers' room and going too dark; other people have gone too wacky and zany.

~Bill Burr

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You have to show up at 7 in the morning and be on like it's 9 at night. It's a skill. Some comics run from it, and they hate doing it, but the comics that are pros understand how important it is, and they get good at it.

~Bill Burr

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That's kind of my job in the writer's room. I'm always the guy going, like, 'People wouldn't say that there. They wouldn't say that.' Like, I hate when I watch sitcoms and something crazy happens, and people just kind of go, 'Huh?' and then they just go on.

~Bill Burr

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: June 10th, 1968

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