Billy Corgan says he and potential half-brother Bill Burr have “stumbled into something bigger than us”

nme.com:

Billy Corgan has said that him and Bill Burr revealing that they could potentially be half-brothers has felt like they “stumbled into something bigger than us”.The revelation that the Smashing Pumpkins frontman and the comedian/actor could be related first arose last year, when Corgan appeared as a guest on Howie Mandel’s Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast, and recalled his stepmother telling him as a child: “Do you know who Bill Burr is?

Bill Burr might be one of the children that your father sired in his days being a travelling musician”.Things then escalated shortly afterwards, when Mandel surprised Burr – who was appearing as a guest on his podcast – by bringing the singer onto the show.

During the meeting with Corgan, Burr jokingly asked: “What was supposed to happen? Are we going to go play catch? We’re both in our 50s”.In another interview, The Mandalorian actor shared that he was left frustrated by the surprise “reunion” organised by Mandel. “I did not appreciate what Howie did.

Not at all,” he said.“Howie did what he did because he is a Hollywood whore and he doesn’t care what happens. He could’ve said something and he just brings up all that weirdness”, he added, also questioning Mandell’s motives.Now, Billy Corgan has again looked back on the possible relation between the two of them, and said that it feels like the original comments have led to something “bigger” than he anticipated.“It was pretty surreal.