Bill Burr on Adapting His ‘A–hole Vibe,’ Wanting a ‘Hostile Crowd’ for New Hulu Special and How a Rabbi Changed His Perspective on Censorship (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Bill Burr is the quintessential Boston comic. However, Burr has proudly lived in Los Angeles for some 30 years. “I’m feeling pretty lucky,” he tells Variety just days after evacuating from his house due to the L.A.

fires. He’s disgusted by the fact that the natural disasters, some of the worst in California’s history, have already become politicized online. “What kills me is a lot of it is just bots,” he says. “I think it’s treasonous behavior to politicize everything, keeping regular working people at each other’s throats.

That is only good for one group of people, and it’s not working people.” Remove the tragedy, and Burr says Southern California’s environmental hazards “make living out here exciting.” “I go back to New York and my comic friends tell me how soft L.A.

is,” Burr says. “I’m like, ‘All you New Yorkers come out here and leave with your tail between your legs because you can’t hack it.’ It’s funny that L.A.