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March 16, 2025 - Lionel Nation
01:08:55
Bill Burr EXPOSED: Clueless Comedian Talks Hitler & Nazis – And Gets It ALL Wrong!
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I know people who will believe anything they hear from somebody that they quote like.
I know people who are so connected to people that they will believe anything the person says.
Because they like them.
I think that's the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my life.
They like them.
Oh, don't say anything about him.
I like him.
Don't say anything about the Tate brothers.
They're despicable people.
I cannot believe how these Chidroulos slid under the radar.
But you're going to find out.
You have no idea.
But that's okay.
But people will say, no, no, I like them.
Say, do you want to know the truth?
No.
No.
Uh-uh.
No.
I like people, too.
But I'm able to say, I don't know about that.
I don't know about that.
I don't know about them.
I think Alex Jones, I've been saying, is probably the paterfamilias of everything that we're doing now.
But there are some things that he's done in the past that I disagree with.
There are some things that President Trump I disagree with.
I love the guy.
You don't absolve your membership card merely by saying, but I don't like that.
I don't care for this.
And today's subject is Bill Burr.
And Bill Burr is a perfect example of something.
We have a lot to talk about.
One of the things which I love to do is really going deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep.
Because the deeper you get, the more you learn.
It's like when you learn and you...
Years ago, in Israel, in Jerusalem, when you're going down, down, down, down, from a historical point of view, irrespective of whatever you think about the politics, if you like history, you'll go nuts.
And as a Christian, you've got to go to Jerusalem.
You've got to see the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Christ's tomb.
I mean, this is a pilgrimage!
But as you go down, down, down, down, down, and we had a guy who said, smell that?
This is the Romans.
As you plumb the depths, you explore new layers, new areas.
It's like anything else.
But we, of course, in our very quick, kind of double-parked, drive-by mentality, we don't like spending a lot of time going into the depths of things.
Well, that's what we're going to do.
Bill Burr provides one of the best examples today of staying in your lane, and also this thing called Godwin's Principle, and also the power of memes, the power of momentum, and how, oftentimes, people will say things without any proof whatsoever.
Give an example.
Candace Owens is my favorite.
She provides no proof of anything.
Nothing.
She'll show you a picture, she'll show you a hint.
And I saw this on X. She had some CIA person.
Oh, JFK.
Absolutely CIA.
It was Intel.
Oh, it was the mob.
What's the proof?
I don't need proof.
I just like the story.
That's not proof.
How do you know what you know?
The epistemology.
How do you know what you know?
So I'm throwing a lot of stuff at you today.
It's really good.
This is a great tutorial.
All I ask that you do is just clear your mind.
Think about this and don't immediately start to defend.
Don't immediately say, wait a minute, that's my...
No, no, no, no, no.
It doesn't work like that.
Listen carefully to what I'm saying.
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It's like somebody's got their thumb on the scale.
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But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean no one's after you.
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All right, my friends.
Now, a couple of things I want to explain to you.
This is not about being...
Unfair to...
I like Bill Burr!
That's not the point.
The point is listening to what he has said.
Now let me see if I have this ready.
I hope I have this.
And let us hope, dear God, let us hope that this somehow works.
This is Bill Burr.
Oh, no.
Can you hear this?
Stop right now.
Can you hear this?
Something tells me you can.
Oh, don't tell me we're doing this again.
Don't tell me.
Can you hear this?
Can you hear me?
Because I can't hear it.
And don't tell me.
Don't tell me.
Can you hear this?
Can you?
No.
See, I don't know what this thing is.
We're going to do this again.
I'm going to do this again.
I have no earthly idea.
Why this is happening, let me try this again.
And I'm going to do this, I'm so sorry, but I'm going to make you have to sit through this horror show, because this is the part that drives me absolutely nuts.
For reasons I shan't understand, I'm going to bring this to your attention.
And I'm going to, let me see this, because you have to see this one particular piece.
Because if you don't understand Bill Burr, it's the notion of referencing Hitler.
Now, suffice it to say, I will promise you, most people cannot explain anything as to Hitler.
They know he's a bad person, without a doubt.
He's a terrible person, without a doubt.
He was a Nazi anti-Semitic.
And also a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible person.
No doubt about it.
Here we go.
Let me see something here.
Okay.
I'm going to try this.
I'm going to try my best.
I'm going to try my best because I want you to see this.
This sounds crazy, but I'm going to do my best because you've got to hear how this man pivots away.
Okay.
Hang on a second.
Just talk amongst yourselves.
I did all of this before.
All of my preparation.
All of this stuff.
I did it all before.
And it is now to no avail.
Okay?
But we're going to do it.
I'm going to try.
Just bear with me.
And thank you so much, dear friends, for being this wonderful, wonderful...
Stop Hitler!
And then this guy, he is the next Hitler.
Donald Trump, he's the next Hitler.
You can hear this now, right?
Good, good, good, good, good, good.
Good, good, good, good, good, good, good.
Now, now, now, now.
Listen to how he changes and how he pivots.
Okay?
Listen to how he changes.
And how he pivots.
This is the most important, okay?
Anytime you want to say somebody's evil, you just say he is the next Hitler.
Donald Trump, he's the next Hitler.
It's always he's the next Hitler.
He died like, what, 75 fucking years ago?
Nothing quiets a room like dropping the H-bomb.
This guy's seatiled twice.
Veterans, people in the armed services that died trying to stop Hitler.
And then this guy comes in, you know, and does that.
While being an immigrant, too.
The whole thing, none of it tracks how you can support the troops.
You know, America, love it or leave it.
And then this guy comes in and gives a shout-out to Hitler.
See, he has no, absolutely no clue as to what he is saying.
Now, before we begin, let me bring up the speed of Godwin's Law.
Can you follow me on this?
This is important.
Hang on a minute.
Oh, God, we can't watch this.
I'll show you this one later.
Oh, this is horrible.
This is terrible.
I'll show you this one later.
Okay, this is what I want you to read.
Okay.
Everybody read with me, okay?
I've got to show you the elephant later, which is so incredible.
Godwin's Law, it was 1990, it states that as an online discussion grows longer, This is a paraphrase.
Regardless of the topic or scope, the probability of someone making a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis approaches 100% or 1, often signaling the deterioration of rational debate into hyperbolic and emotionally charged rhetoric that undermines meaningful discourse.
You understand that?
Godwin's law.
The longer you talk, The greater the likelihood or the greater the probability approach is 100% that you're going to mention Hitler.
Okay?
Understand this?
Good.
I spent one time, I remember a while back, really going into, dare I say, the origins, the etiology, the teleology, the origins, the genesis of Hitler.
Nazism, it was an absolutely fascinating story.
And of that, you reduce it to the Holocaust, Nazis, and there's no way you should not.
You should not.
But that's like saying cancer is losing weight.
Because everybody who's ever had cancer always loses weight.
That's a symptom.
That's not the cause of cancer.
So what I'm saying is, understand the complexity of something.
And understand what happens when you become somebody who enjoys success.
For example, Candace Owens.
And I can tell you this because I've seen this.
I have been in this business one way or another for 30...
This is my 38th year.
So, this is my 38th year.
So, 37 years.
From when I went into talk radio and then Rush and the wannabes, and I've seen the TV and this, and I have seen this.
And the one thing that I will tell you, dear friends, the one thing which means the most to me, and let me first thank...
My good friend M.R.O.
Lavon, who says, Ah, first I want to thank you, Senator Schumer.
And I say this generally, Ah, Chuck never makes the same mistake twice.
Generally he makes five or six times.
Yes, that's John Kennedy's comment.
Thank you, Mr. O. Lavon.
And Big Dick says, Got my likes up.
Thank you for this.
Thank you.
Cut up chatter.
It says, I propose the Obama podcast team is twins with both sexes switched at birth.
Brother is originally sister and vice versa.
That brother seems female.
That brother seems to have some tendencies, but if you've seen him before, he was a basketball coach.
I didn't see that then, but thank you.
Remember, we don't know anything about this.
Because let me tell you, and I'm glad we're bringing this up, the more I know, the more I don't know.
The more I know, the more I don't know.
I am the complexity of the problem is what fascinates me, not with the answer.
I have loved vocabulary, weird words my whole life.
My mother instilled this in me.
I've always loved it.
It's been like a hobby.
The more you get into it, the more you realize, I don't know anything.
There's always another word.
I don't know that.
I didn't know that.
I'm not sure what that means.
So this is an example.
Whether it is, oh, I don't know, World War II, whether it's Nazism.
By the way, Nazism, not Nazism, which would mean there would be like two I's.
It's N-A-Z-I-S-M.
Nazism.
Like, zoology.
Not zoo-ology.
That would be three O's.
In any event.
So Bill Burr doesn't understand it.
And like Candace Owens and other people who will find themselves saying, this is terrific.
There's a guy who sits back and he's a, I don't know what he is, he's a he's a working out guy and he says, you don't need feed oil.
Feed oil.
Make sure you never go to bed next week.
Stay away from Brad.
And he's his expert.
Who is this?
By what do you know?
Cutup says, my first roommate was transsexual.
None of this switching is new to me.
I hate every...
I have very acute sight.
Okay.
But I want you to look at Craig or whatever it was before.
And you will see this.
I've been in talks where Godwin's Law snuck in.
Oh, yes.
So, going back to Bill Burr, and going back to whatever it is, you have to ask yourself, you don't know anything yet.
And with all due respect, you may have been, you may have lived with a transsexual, but for you to sit there and say, huh, he looks like a woman.
No.
You need a little bit more than that.
You're not ready to go yet.
Not ready.
It's like there's something about a diagnosis.
There are very few things in the life like death and pregnancy absolutes.
But let's talk about Bill Burr.
This is important.
And he realizes he's digging in.
And you might say to yourself, well, he's getting the attention he needs.
One of the things which is the biggest joke is, well, they're spelling his name right.
Well, there, that's all that matters.
Well, that's no, no, no, no.
Once you are determined to be a clown, that's it.
Kathy Griffin and other people.
And I don't know when that hits.
But Bill Burr, let me start off with this, is a very talented comedian.
There's no doubt about that.
He is very good.
He's got a natural way.
From what I see, I don't know about this, but from what I see...
He doesn't seem like a very nice guy.
My friend Anthony Cumia, who is a very nice guy, says, I'm not a big Bill Burr fan.
And that may mean something.
And again, Anthony likes some people.
But I don't know.
Bill Burr has built a career on his sharp, often politically incorrect humor.
And millions of his fans, I think, appreciate his kind of a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is kind of a take-no-prisoners attitude.
Because if someone is good at making people laugh, it doesn't mean they have a grasp on history, or politics, or world affairs.
And that's exactly the problem with Bill Burr.
Also, there are some people who don't understand the issue.
For example, Pam Bondi, bless her heart, does not understand there is nothing in any document.
This is not a document problem that we have regarding Epstein.
Documents are not the problem.
There is nothing in the document.
Nothing.
Stop saying that.
But Bill Burr is a comedian.
Who thinks his quick wit and...
Stage presence and all of that sort of stuff is somehow going to qualify him to speak extemporaneously on complex historical topics, particularly when it comes to Hitler and the Nazis.
Now let me stop.
Sometimes George Carlin said some interesting things that were really not dependent on fact.
They were observational.
I think Bill Hicks, probably one of the most important.
One of the most critical.
He did the same thing, but it's more observational.
Candace Owens, I hate to keep picking on her, she's making statements of facts without any proof whatsoever.
She'll lead you, and as long as she gets a number, Macron is a man.
Can you prove it?
Well, it's...
Can you prove it?
Well, what's there to prove?
A lot.
Where is it?
The CIA killed JFK.
Can you prove it?
Can you prove it?
What do you mean prove?
Can you prove it other than say it?
Because I don't think people understand what prove means.
I don't think they understand that just like if you're in a lab and you have two groups, you have a control group and the group that you've applied this particular treatment to and you've got to ask yourself, did this cure?
You've got to ask yourself, is there a significant difference?
Are there enough people who've been affected?
If you have 100 people who have a disease and you give this particular sample, this substance, and let's say 10 are cured, is that a significant difference compared to the control group?
Before you can even say this, here we don't know this.
People will say things and they have no basis for it so long as it meets your generalized There was a woman on Fox News who said all children must have protein from animals.
Animal protein.
Lean.
Lean.
And it's just absurd.
It's okay.
I'm not going to say don't do it.
But there is no kids ever in India.
Or China, who get their protein sores from plants or whatever, who are brought in because of a quashior core or one of those diseases.
It doesn't exist.
But you are going to resist this because you want this to be true.
If I said to you, prayer changes the power of prayer, you want that to be true, so you will believe it.
Whether it's true or not, you will believe that which you want to be true.
Americans, I believe, haven't even finished, doesn't matter.
It's good.
So when it comes to Hitler and the Nazis, Bill Burr says, okay, I can change my mind.
Because he's sitting back and his whole thing is, I'm Bill Burr.
What I say is golden.
Now the reality is, he really should stick to making jokes about, you know, sports.
Sports is very good.
Relationship sports.
I think his wife is black or something.
It's very interesting.
Absurdity of everyday life and all this stuff.
Because when it comes to real-world events, his ignorance is glaringly obvious.
History is not something, you know, like Tolstoy said, history is a wonderful thing.
If only it were true, this is a very complicated deal.
Now, when a comedian like Bill Burr wades into historical, you know, discussions and so on...
Especially one is serious.
And he's on the morning show or whatever it is with some people who are also not necessarily weighted down by expertise in this.
Anyway, when, and this is important, when he is on these shows, especially dealing with the subject of serious and devastating is Hitler's reign and terror and the atrocities and something which the people, the good people of Germany are still...
Still stung by this.
And here comes this bald-headed guy who comes and goes, okay, I'm a comedian, I can say something.
Because somebody makes a gesture.
Now you've got to ask yourself, do you really believe that Elon Musk is a crypto-Nazi?
Do you think he is?
Do you think that's a...
Do you believe that?
I don't.
I don't think anybody with real working neurons believes that.
But it becomes immediately clear.
Whether they've done their homework like Bill Burr versus Bill Burr, or if they're just repeating whatever nonsense they've been told or they're overhearing in echo chambers of Hollywood, that's the discriminatory aspect.
And let's be clear.
Bill Burr, for all of his comedic genius, knows next to nothing about Hitler, World War II, or the historical reality of the Nazi regime.
It's just incredible.
World War II.
World War II, give you an example.
We always forget the role of Russia.
Ask somebody the question, if we had never entered World War II, could Russia have beaten Hitler?
The answer is, oh yeah.
It would have been longer, it might have been bloody, oh yeah, absolutely.
And of course, had, you know, Hitler went to Stalingrad and the whole bit, and Robert Rosen, blah, blah, blah.
But, oh yeah.
And if you said, wait a minute, what?
Because we have this, what?
Private Ryan, the Saving Private Ryan view of this.
We came at the tail end of World War II.
It's a whole different story.
I'm not saying we had nothing to do with it.
But you've been giving John Wayne history.
Vietnam, by the way, was the movie Green Berets.
And if Bill Burr had any knowledge of what the hell he did or didn't know, he wouldn't make the kind of absurd and And uninformed comments that he's been making.
Now, it doesn't really matter.
He was okay.
Now, here's a dangerous trend.
These are comedians as historians.
First of all, comedians, with all due respect, and I mean this, I'm going to give you a perfect example, and I think this is the most important.
Joe Rogan has always fancied himself as being a stand-up comic.
I've heard his stand-up comedy.
He is a thinker.
He's a philosopher.
He's like the Jack Parr of our day.
He's an intellect.
He really is.
Why?
Because of his insatiable curiosity and his insatiable love of knowledge and his sincere and deep fascination over things.
I've seen little snippets of his stand-up, which is okay.
To me, stand-up is like...
I'm the worst audience there is, so it doesn't really matter.
But there's a disturbing trend that we're seeing in modern entertainment.
This is where comedians start believing that their ability to riff on current events somehow makes them experts in history, and how somehow their own particular leftist or right-wing or whatever it is personality blends in.
Give you a perfect example.
The guy who was my hero, if there is such a thing, the most important comedy, and I think is one of the most naturally funny, if he can stick with what he's doing, is Robert Klein.
But his politics, and also his anger getting older, or I don't know what it is.
But when he, child of the 50s, is perfection.
Absolute perfection.
I'll never hear anything like this again.
Lenny Bruce.
Lenny Bruce, when he first started off, he invented that riff.
Then Lenny Bruce got crazy because of the lawsuits.
He would read his indictments.
This is terrible.
George Carlin was kind of funny.
And then later on, he got sort of angry.
And then he...
It's okay.
Dick Gregory.
I've got this one poster I'm very proud of.
I open for Dick Gregory, Mort Saw, Robert Klein.
This was...
Mort Saw was coming from the beginning, but he never was angry.
Maybe because he always laughed or whatever.
It's a very tough thing.
Politics is a really weird...
Now, Dick Gregory is...
Dick Gregory was not funny.
He was profound.
Okay.
So anyway.
So here comes Bill Burr talking about this.
Bill Barr.
Bill Burr.
He's doing all this stuff that's very funny, and then all of a sudden he figures, I'm going to get into politics.
Ooh, ooh, ooh.
Johnny Carson deliberately.
You know why Johnny Carson was so good?
By the way, Johnny Carson was not that funny, but Johnny Carson was a genius.
Johnny Carson was so big that nobody, nobody in, you will never see the end of it.
Let me stop for just a second.
Let me explain to you in terms of size.
Johnny Carson was so big that at night, at 1130 or whatever, I, everybody in the, and this was before VCRs, or some of my clients would say VCRs.
They, people would watch this, and absolutely, he'd be the most important thing in a row.
As far as comics go, he makes you.
If he invited you over to the couch, and he always said, do not go, do not be clean.
I know people who try to double-cross Johnny.
And we're just blackballed from the industry forever and ever.
Let me also, on the subject, one of the biggest acts of all time.
Beatles, Charlie Chaplin, maybe sort of, Bing Crosby.
Bing Crosby was into movies, radio, music, song, and sheet music!
He sold more sheet music than anybody else!
Bing Crosby was a monster!
Rudy Valli!
Oh my.
Because everybody listened to him.
A lot of people today say, I don't know who Bill Burr is, but everybody knew Bing Crosby.
Everybody!
Do you know what it is when everybody knows you?
Everybody!
And not just knows you, but loves you.
So remember something.
Whenever you get too big, too big-headed...
And you say, well, you know, Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan is the biggest person, but on his best day, in terms of percentage and saturation, Bing Crosby was the biggest.
Now, Bill Burr, of course, is not the first and won't be the last celebrity to pontificate on subjects he has absolutely no idea about or that exceed far outside his area of expertise.
But the problem is that when comedians like him speak authoritatively about history, millions of people, especially younger audiences and people who have no idea who Hitler was, take their words at face value because they think there's something to them.
And the result is a growing number of people who get their history lessons from stand-up specials instead of historians, textbooks, analyses, or credible sources.
And other people who think that all you have to do is just say it.
I can tell you right now.
That I will take you to any meeting of, I guess I'd say, some JFK historians, and you will never know who killed JFK.
Never.
Never.
But you will hear so much stuff.
So the question always remains, even they don't know.
So when I hear Candace Owens, for example, on this loop say, well, JFK was killed by CIA.
How do you know that?
Because that's what gets people's attention.
Just because somebody has good numbers doesn't mean there's...
Listen, God bless anybody who does it, because I still can't tell you who killed, who actually got...
Suspicions.
Who have suspicions.
They're still trying to figure out sometimes what causes cancer.
We're still trying to figure out what causes World War...
The Civil War!
Shelby Foote was still trying to figure this thing out.
Now, all of this is particularly dangerous when it comes to World War II.
Whenever you talk about the atrocity of the Holocaust, the rise of the Nazi regime, global devastation caused by Hitler's ambition, and also when you put Hitler into the context of Stalin and Mao, you've got to ask yourself, well, who was really the worst?
And was the worst in terms of number?
Is that it?
How do you even categorize this?
How many people do you say, know nothing about Mao?
I mean, this is something which is important, because...
The global devastation caused by Hitler's ambition and this weird particular perverse view are not topics to be casually discussed by somebody who thinks that sarcasm and punchlines or whatever are a substitute for analysis.
And you might say, well, it's just Bill Burr, so why is he saying it?
See, because when he makes offhanded remarks about Hitler, it contributes to the growing trend, the growing trend of historical revisionism, where major world events, I've dumbed it down.
They're misrepresented, or they're outright distorted.
And there's something that's also bad.
It's the arrogance of the modern comedian.
The arrogance.
There was a time, ladies and germs, when the comedians used to know their lane, the greats, George Carlin, George Richard Pryor, even somebody as politically charged, as I mentioned, as Lenny Bruce, or I'm telling you, Mort Sahl was...
Bill Hicks is right up there.
Anyway, they all understood that their role was to provoke thought, not to rewrite history.
That's a different story.
They had a sense of responsibility when approaching, you know, some pretty serious topics, even if they used humor as a tool or as a fulcrum.
Today, however, comedians like Bill Burr and others are so wrapped up, and I think part of it is the scrum of the internet, but they're so wrapped up in their own arrogance and self-importance that they believe that their wit Gives them the authority to speak on subjects they haven't really even been bothered to study.
I mean, this is really it.
And let's be very clear.
Bill Burr is a comedian.
He's not a historian.
And when he sits there and he's given this position of whatever he says is okay.
And by the way, it's not only comedians, but people who talk about health, history.
Have you heard of the nonsense that people talk about?
Look at the TED Talks about anxiety and about self-help, Deepak Chopra and all that.
It's not just Bill Burr.
It's people who don't know what the hell they're talking about.
And there's something funny.
Just as we believe that people with British accents are smarter, we also believe that people who have an Indian accent are more in time able to manifest the deep part of all that in the soul.
And the way that you must cultivate the consciousness.
You know, why do you think, oh, this guy's profound.
If you took what he said, and he gave it to Junior Samples, and they talk like this, it's the consciousness of your inner soul.
You would say, no.
We are so, we also, we love people who speak quickly.
That's the thing.
We love that.
Ben Shapiro, Candace, that guy Destiny, for some reason that is a must know what he's talking about.
Wow, he's talking so fast.
And only a great mind could be able to formulate these words this quickly.
No.
Billboard doesn't Read deep into the complexities of Hitler's economic policies, the ideological roots of the Nazi movement, the military strategies that led to World War II.
He doesn't grasp the full horror of what happened in concentration camps and death camps and labor camps.
Do you know what the differences are?
Auschwitz and Dachau and Treblinka, he hasn't spent years Analyzing propaganda post-Versailles, post-World War I, the mindset, analyzing the techniques used by Goebbels,
or Goebbels, as people say, or the philosophical underpinnings and theoretical latticework of fascism, and how the difference between Nazism and communism, even though they're called socialism, and how Russia was our ally against fascism.
And instead, he casually throws around Hitler's name in a comedy routine on a podcast discussion as if it's just another talking point for a joke.
And you can see in his face, he almost is surprised that nobody's jumping in.
And the real problem, in addition to others, is Hollywood, or whatever this is called, their willful ignorance to know the truth.
I can't explain this one to you.
And you saw it.
Look at people.
Look at all the TDS folks.
Look at the people who are talking about current history.
People who are talking about President Trump.
They couldn't even get that one right.
Look at these people.
The Alec Baldwins and, well, pick your favorite, general.
One of the biggest reasons that comedians like Bill Barr think that they can get away with this is because Hollywood, and again, I use that term collectively, Hollywood as a kind of a metonym, but Hollywood or a synecdoche, I think is another one.
Anyway, Hollywood And the broader entertainment industry and world, these are filled with people who are just as ignorant as he is.
They don't know any better.
So the industry rewards performative and pretend political correctness while simultaneously allowing figures like Bill Burr to throw out historical nonsense with little or no backlash.
Why?
Because, very simple, because Hollywood itself is fundamentally unserious when it comes to Real-world issues.
I mean, these people spend their lives in a bubble of wealth and privilege and self-importance, kind of like detached and everything else, where actual historical knowledge takes a backseat to whatever narrative is currently popular.
How many people believe, for example, that Burns' documentaries are correct?
Or that it must be true I mean, you've seen this and it's got to be true.
I saw a documentary on something and it was...
I saw this...
I saw...
You saw...
You saw this...
Ken Burns?
It's on PBS!
Really?
Really?
And there's something else which you have to understand.
And this is something nobody ever wants to explain at all.
Unless you understand World War II from the point of the Germans, take this fellow, take this story, ask people what's happening, if you can get anybody to pay any attention, ask people what's happening regarding this guy, Mahmoud Khalil.
Ask him about that.
People will say to you, well, he should be deported.
What did he say?
What does he want?
Who is Hamas?
What's the point?
They have no idea.
They know good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy, Manichaean, black and white, apodictic, left and white.
Up and down.
Good guy, bad guy.
Left and right.
Manichaean.
Good guy, bad guy.
That's it.
Stop for one second, my friends.
Stop for one second.
I know that I'm making you, causing you to say, wow, this is a lot of Bill Burr.
Bill Burr is perfect.
Bill Burr is an important and very, very critical, critical person to be talking about.
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Let me ask you a question.
Who is it in your life that really affected you?
When I was a kid, comedians, I was first, I remember the first person I ever saw was Richard Pryor, was I think on Steve Allen.
I remember seeing old, I remember wonderful, I know George Carlin.
To see him kind of figure out.
But the guy that I thought was the greatest act ever I loved was Bill Cosby.
Now Bill Cosby later, I'll be fine, he was terrible.
But Bill Cosby could tell a story.
And telling a story is to me the most important thing in the world.
Richard Pryor is a great storyteller as well.
Lionel, it's okay.
Your jealousy of Candace is human.
Well, I understand that.
Look, you're entitled to your opinion, and I appreciate it.
And thank you, by the way.
And you pay for that.
She is a very smart person.
She's also a very, believe it or not, kind of a troubled person who has a lot of internal stuff she's trying to...
And I think sometimes that's a great source of talent.
I think she should go over and just explain things, or anybody else for the matter, with fact.
But I digress.
But thank you.
Bill Cosby, to Russell, my brother, whom I slept with, lighter than air.
I remember listening to these and just Noah.
Noah, yes God, build an ark.
No, this is God.
What's an ark?
I want you 40 cubits, but what's a cubit?
And he took these things and he broke them down into how incredibly silly the story is.
I thought it was fantastic.
And it clicked with me.
And I used to hear, I remember sitting on my, remember those hi-fis you had?
Like there were big cabinets where you lifted up this lid and you had this stack of like this many albums and you had this.
You know, you would drop the thing.
Anyway, had an FM radio.
And I used to just listen on the floor and just kind of put my head down and just listen to this.
We had no headphones, obviously.
I thought it was great.
And that was my...
And there were other people, too.
Comedians that I thought really were just...
I grew up...
Loving people like, you know, Merv Griffith, Steve Allen, Mike Douglas.
I love the old-timers.
And then later on, I got to meet and know, I got to know very, very well Pat Cooper, very, very well Dick Capri.
When the Friars Club was the Friars Club, it was really good.
Dick Capri was the second person.
Robert Klein was the first.
Dick Capri could make me laugh.
Nobody makes me laugh.
This is my laugh.
It's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
That's as far as it gets to me.
Freddie Roman, who was one of the great, oh my god, Alan King.
These were practical.
Practitioners.
And then something happened.
And then I got the chance to be in an endeavor with, oh, and I did my own stand-up every week for years.
I had no idea.
My first job ever was at the Claridge, the big room in Claridge.
I did it for like an hour.
I had music.
I had no idea.
I thought we were supposed to talk for an hour.
And I talked for an hour.
And I realized there's a lot to it.
But I thought, okay.
And then people were doing like, this one guy says, hey, do you mind if I could go on before you?
And I thought, well, I thought, I can't let him do an hour.
Well, Holly goes, I got a tight five.
I said, what's that?
He said, five minutes.
You got five minutes?
I said, I can't even say my name in five minutes.
I said, sure.
Five minutes?
I've been working on it and working.
And then one time, I never took, I realized these people, these comics, they're not funny.
They're not funny in real life.
They're into something else, a little bit different.
Let me give you an example.
When you talk to a cook, a chef, and you say to him, you're a professional.
I'd like to cook.
Oh no, you like to cook?
Yeah, well that's different.
Being a professional will take...
Oh, you've got to have prep work, mise en place, boom, boom, boom.
Fast, fast, fast.
Go, presentation.
I love watching.
Have you seen that Vivaldi, that great guy from either on YouTube?
There's two people I like.
Crispy Pizza.
Frank is the best.
I think his name is Frank.
And Vivaldi out of Quebec.
I love this.
Okay, but they'll tell you, no, no, you like to cook, but this is different.
Stand-up comedy, five minutes.
Guys in the back of the club used to have a flashlight, you see the light, and they have this, I'm going to say this, I'm going to have this, I'm going to move this around, I'm going to practice my, they have said the same line 50 times, And they know exactly how it works.
And that's a part.
And they're not funny people, but just like there are great chefs may not like cooking.
They may, on their day off, they may make peanut butter and jelly and not do this.
Stand-up comedy is a very, it's like building something.
It's very specific.
It's not what you think.
It's not, hey, let me just muse.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
You know exactly how to work the audience.
It takes forever.
When you have a routine down a bit, a piece, you know exactly every single time when you're standing there and you say, and then the weirdest thing was, so I walked in and I turned around and she was naked.
Okay.
Or, and I went and I turned around and she was naked.
It didn't work.
Let me go back to the other one.
And I turned around and she was naked.
Ooh, that was a laugh.
I turned around and she was naked.
Bigger laugh.
I'm going to take that line and I'm going to play with it and freeze it and trim it and skim it and cut it and slice it and dice it and sand it and mold it.
It's really something.
I mean, you've done this, and there's stuff that the professionals do that are really good.
I think some of the best, forget their private life, some of the best tacticians, technical people, Louis C.K. Watch Louis C.K. Absolutely the best.
Some great ones, too.
Louis Anderson.
Louis Anderson one time.
Oh!
And if you ever get the chance to go to a...
When I saw this...
Excuse me.
I used to see people sometimes...
Chiasi.
I used to see people who would...
Like, I would see their acts over and over.
It was the same thing.
I knew everything they did.
Didn't mean it make it a bad thing.
Charlie Kelly says, remember the deportee violated law?
He storms these buildings and illegally detain people.
Yeah, well, you gotta be careful.
I'm staying away from the topic because nobody really cares about it.
They all hate him and that's the way it is.
You gotta realize there are some things that are just not just like there's some jokes.
They're just not funny.
Just don't do it.
Know your audience.
Know who they are.
That's it.
You know who's interesting too?
So I can talk about this.
One of the best ones, example, the best one is a guy, Sebastian Maniscalco, right?
Have you ever heard him?
The most boring person you have ever met in your life.
I've heard him.
I said, who's that?
So, bottom line is, comedians and everything, very, very important.
I respect what they do.
It's a tough thing.
But then something happens.
Two things happen.
One, in the 80s, oh, you know who was great?
Sinbad was great.
George Wallace was great.
Seinfeld, before he was, he was actually very good.
To find their own thing.
Stephen Wright.
This one guy, Dimitri Marks.
Very good, but it gets, and also sometimes, do you get the routine?
You say, I know he's going to come on.
I'm Steven Wright.
I fell asleep with my head inside a satellite dish, and my thoughts were, you know, whatever.
Okay, once you see that, it's like, it's harder for me to say, I know what he's gonna...
Alright.
Two things happen.
Number one, 80s.
All of a sudden, evening of the improv, evening of the 80s, Ben Bud Friedman, that's...
We have the improv here.
Used to be on, what was it, 8th Avenue and where that Italian restaurant is?
Famous, famous improv.
It was Dangerfields, but this one, so all of a sudden they said, let's put this on TV.
All of a sudden it was that.
And then there's that.
Who was the black comedian who supposedly is the billionaire?
No, no.
The guy who owns all these...
No, not Tyler Perry.
He's a comedian.
Anyway, they started doing these things and everybody said, oh, I can do comedy.
Mel, um...
You'll think of him.
I see his...
Yes, he had that show late at night where we put all these comedians together.
In any event, everybody stood up and started doing this stuff.
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody.
Not Russell Simmons.
It's a guy.
Not Steve Harvey.
You know who he is.
He has a show like 130.
All these comedians would come in.
And he puts them together.
And not Arsenao Hall.
Byron Allen!
Thank you!
Ladies up, Mr. Colville's got it.
Thank you for this.
Okay, so...
It just got to be, okay.
On Times Square, if you like comedy, they would take these comedians and they would go out to have them draw people.
It got to be like oversaturated.
Then it got to be filthy.
Then it got to be weird.
Then it got to be, I don't know what.
And now there are people today, look, God bless you.
But the internet changed everything.
Everything.
We're like an oversaturation of everything.
There's always going to be somebody making a joke.
There's always going to be somebody telling a story.
And I love it.
Keep doing it.
I just think, oh, let me tell you something.
There is another one, too.
Sometimes people are filthy.
Sometimes people are filthy, and that's a personal thing.
If it works for you, that's great.
On a separate note, I am absolutely, positively 100% in love with this song Messy by Lola Young.
Have you heard this?
Very F-bombs like you can't believe.
But it's about something that's legitimate.
It's about a new way of thinking.
It's about ADHD or something.
So let me tell you something.
When somebody comes up and says something or tries something different, God love them.
When somebody says, I'm going to be...
I'm going to try something different.
Let me tell you something.
If you want to just see me absolutely just blow my mind, bluegrass in Japan.
And they don't even know what the hell they're singing.
But yonder in the holler, they're doing Stanley Brothers.
I love that.
So I love anything new.
And that's why despite everybody there is, whether it's Candace Owens or whether it's Lex Freeman, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It's great.
And the more people, the more inspiration and more people come forward and you do it.
Don't ever take her off.
Ever.
I don't care what it is.
A black woman doing great?
Terrific.
I don't care.
I'm just going to tell you what I think.
I'm going to tell you what I think.
But I love it.
The more we have.
Do you understand how important the thugs were?
How important hootenannies were?
Maria Mulder?
We were, Mrs. L and I were developed recently, Cafe Wa, all that, Bleecker.
You may not think so.
The Ramones were important.
Debbie Harry was important.
Remember Wyndham Hill and that New Age stuff?
That was important.
Remember when Cool Jazz came around?
Remember when, I remember the first time I bought a CD.
I thought, this is the greatest.
Remember the old days, the CDs, this long, this plastic thing?
What is this?
To break it open, you wonder, what is this?
When Cool Jazz came, Fatburger, Yellow Jackets, Spirogyra, all of that converges into what we are today.
Everything.
We need it.
I want a multiplicity.
Have you seen the old man who's like 87 years old?
He's a stand-up comedy?
Fantastic.
Have you ever heard comedy from other countries?
What I'm saying to you is welcome.
But understand you owe a little bit of a responsibility.
A little bit.
And you, more importantly, have a responsibility to understand these people don't know what they're talking about.
Okay, let me show you this one.
This I got to show you.
I played the Bill Burr thing.
I want to show you two stories, two things which I want to understand this, but I can't.
People who claim now who are immersed in their world of anxiety.
Have you met these people?
Their whole world is anxiety.
Anxiety.
Did I see Tom Scott?
Oh!
Tom Scott!
And the LA Express?
Tom Scott does the best version of the LA Express of Moscanada ever.
It was on a Denon sampler.
Tom Scott was one of the great, great sax players during that time.
I just saw Tom Scott.
Tom Scott was a monster.
Remember Richie Cole and the Alto?
Anyway.
So there are these people right now who are groveling, reveling in this world of anxiety.
Watch this and ask yourself whether you would be ever caught anywhere near this.
Don't knock it till you try it.
Oops, hang on a minute.
Sorry, let me try this again.
Pardon me.
Oops, I've got to move this.
Let me try this again.
Sorry for me.
Here we go.
Don't knock it till you try it.
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Would you ever?
Ever in your wildest imagination, in public, it's returned to the womb.
I understand the swaddling.
Would you ever, and if somebody comes up and starts to fondle you, play with you, you can't get out.
Somebody comes up, booga booga.
Forget it.
It's a human sack.
You're right.
Makes you easy to run.
This is where we are right now.
This is where we are.
And let me also tell you, this was something that we saw the other day, what I saw, which I wanted to share with you, that was, to me, so beautiful, sad, and tragic simultaneously.
Did you see this?
This was, they were together 25 years.
And this elephant is trying everything.
To wake up their partner.
and even.
The cock might just look at you, baby.
The cock might just look at you, baby.
She's trying to protect her.
You can see the resolution.
The understanding.
Look at it.
And also look at the way you feel.
Look what it's doing to you.
You're a human.
I just fell on her.
I don't know what to do when she's laying on her.
I'm sorry.
And you can say anything you want as far as did the animal know?
Are we being...
Anthropomorphic?
Was it sad?
Was it?
I don't know.
But if you felt something like that, and if you're finding yourselves like stopping this, like, don't show me that, don't make me cry, you're missing something.
You Are not a psychopath.
Because head and heart are connections.
The ability to understand this, but the emotional part.
And you're feeling sad over something that has nothing to do with you.
Nothing to do with you.
You don't know if there's animals.
It's an animal.
You can do it.
It doesn't really matter.
There is one that will kill you.
It's a chimp.
It's a mother with her baby.
And the baby's almost skeletonized.
And the chimp says, you are not going to take this away.
And it understands something.
And maybe we are anthropomorphizing.
Maybe we are.
Maybe this element says, oh, they'll roll.
I mean, who knows?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
There is something that...
And this is the most important.
Will artificial intelligence ever be able to mimic this?
Or feel this?
Will an AGI system ever be able to feel this?
And if you really want to see something, have you seen blackfin?
I didn't know this.
Blackfin deals with the cetacean animals.
These are bottlenose dolphins, porpoises, orcas.
And they have a paralimbic system that has either an extra lobe or a larger lobe.
And their ability to feel separation is profound.
So when you take away a calf, or whatever they're called, from the mother, from the pod, they just howl.
And this one mother was letting out a noise.
You don't have to be verse or conversant in whale.
Or cetacean language.
But you could hear, maybe you're just imagining this, a howl, a plaintive sadness that you cannot...
Oh, it was incredible.
And we do this to amuse ourselves.
And when these animals, these orcas, these...
Killer whales will all of a sudden go after or remember something, remember what happened.
Who knows?
They take the orca and they move it to someplace else.
And all of a sudden, hey, SeaWorld of Kansas City, we're getting a new orca.
Why is that?
I don't know.
I've hated zoos my whole life.
Hated.
Edie says, Mr. L, Temple Grandin created a hug machine for autistic people.
Originally engineered for cattle.
Interesting.
Remember Harlow's studies?
What about Christ is King?
Peterson controversy.
Don't know about this.
Is this Jordan Peterson?
I don't know anything about him.
I don't follow him at all.
So I don't know what to tell you.
This, this, I hated zoos.
I know we're changing the subject of orcas, but an orca will travel 300 miles in a day, just playing around, and you put them in this little thing so we can look at them.
One time at the Bronx Zoo, I will never forget.
Dear God, at that cage, when that ape, that great ape, that beautiful gorilla was just sitting there looking at you, it was, oh my God.
I'm not somebody who has this inordinate sense of animals.
I don't eat them.
I don't do anything like that.
Which is fine.
I'm not getting anybody who does.
I'm not an animal right, but I am amazed truly at how incredibly bright they are.
But I'm also amazed at how we think we're at the top of the heap just because we can, I guess, talk or because we can understand each other.
It fascinates me.
Absolutely fascinates me.
There was something so beautiful about them.
So MD, Edie Crowley, Charlie Calais, thank you so much.
Raul Rodriguez, cut up chatter, thank you.
Big Dickie Daniels and MRO Lavon, thank you as well for this.
And for, back to Mr. Burr, I do not believe that Elon Musk is a Nazi.
I do not believe that even, Kanye West is a Nazi.
Even though he's doing these stupid things to provoke and to anger people regarding swastikas and things like that.
Because if during that time...
I don't think Mr. Hitler would have thought of you as being a part of the superior race either.
Just say.
He was funny about that.
But I don't understand it.
It's like of all the things in the world to do, this?
It makes no sense.
Alright, my friends.
Thank you so very much.
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What a great day.
Happy, happy Saturday, ladies and germs.
Is it Saturday?
For some reason, I thought it was Sunday.
Isn't that weird?
Sometimes, I don't know where I am.
And for good reason.
Alright, my friends, have a great and glorious day.
See you later.
Don't forget, until then, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
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