Bill Burr’s Performance on the New Conan O’Brien
Jun 09th 09
I thought he was amazing, considering that there was a great deal of material that this guy couldn’t drag out on a network station. More surprisingly was the material he was able to churn out on the stage ( a bit about suicide, another about a stripper named Jupiter ).
Overall, it seemed that he wasn’t getting the assumed response from the audience as he should, so his joke transitions were apparent and kinda awkward.
I can’t fault him for this. He had a good run of jokes, but the audience for some odd reason didn’t “get” it. Surprising, since he was amazingly funny. I even felt awkward for laughing when everyone else wasn’t laughing ( to make sure you understand, I was watching this at home, and wasn’t actually there ).
I had to write this because if you had watched it and tried to gauge the humor by the audience response, you would’ve got a false positive. Very strange, one of the few moments I can think of when someone is really funny but not getting the reaction one would expect from the Tonight Show fans.
Bill Burr, if you are reading this, bravo on your performance, and too bad the audience wasn’t riveted by your work. The observational humor was too straight-forward for such confusing lulls during your set.
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i gotta be honest; i didn’t get that joke about the stripper. what am i missing?
It has been many weeks removed from when I saw it. I knew it was funny, but I did forget the bit.
Check him out sometime if you can.
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