1. William Frederick Burr was born on June 10,1968 and is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, actor, writer, and director.
44 Facts About Bill Burr
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Bill Burr started his career as a stand-up comedian before expanding his career as an actor on stage and screen.
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Bill Burr has received nominations for a Emmy Award and a Grammy Award.
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Bill Burr has hosted the Monday Morning Podcast every Monday and Thursday since 2007, and co-founded the All Things Comedy network in 2012.
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Bill Burr received a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nomination for Paper Tiger and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series nomination for the Quibi series Immoral Compass.
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Bill Burr created, co-wrote, and voiced the lead character in the Netflix animated sitcom F Is for Family.
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Bill Burr made his feature-length directorial debut as the co-writer, director, and star of the comedy film Old Dads and has had supporting roles in Daddy's Home, Daddy's Home 2, and The King of Staten Island.
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Bill Burr made his Broadway debut in the 2025 revival of the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross.
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William Frederick Bill Burr was born in Canton, Massachusetts, on June 10,1968, the son of nurse Linda Ann and dentist Robert Bill Burr.
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Bill Burr is of German and Irish descent, and was raised Catholic.
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Bill Burr first performed stand-up comedy at the age of 23 on March 2,1992.
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Bill Burr started to appear in numerous shows performing standup such as Showtime at the Apollo in 2000, Comedy Central Presents in 2003, Just for Laughs in 2004, One Night Stand in 2005, and Live at Gotham in 2006.
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Bill Burr gained prominence as a regular on Dave Chappelle's popular sketch comedy series Chappelle's Show in 2004 on Comedy Central.
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On September 9,2006, Bill Burr performed at the Tweeter Center in Camden, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, as part of Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour.
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Forgoing the rest of his planned material, Bill Burr unleashed a 12-minute expletive-laden rant in which he repeatedly attacked the crowd and the city of Philadelphia, especially its sports teams.
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Bill Burr is sometimes joined by his wife Nia Hill and has featured guests and interviews with other comedians.
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Bill Burr appears as a guest on radio shows and other comedians' podcasts, such as Opie and Anthony, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, The Adam Carolla Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, WTF with Marc Maron, The Nerdist Podcast, The Adam Buxton Podcast, and Nobody Likes Onions.
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Bill Burr's special Let it Go was recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco and premiered on Comedy Central on September 18,2010.
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That same year Bill Burr appeared in the comedy film Date Night as Detective Walsh.
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Bill Burr appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of AMC's Breaking Bad as Patrick Kuby from 2011 to 2013.
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Bill Burr played Mark Mullins in the 2013 buddy cop film The Heat.
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In 2014, Bill Burr filmed his fourth hour-long special I'm Sorry You Feel That Way at the Tabernacle Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.
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The network was established as an artist owned cooperative, which Madrigal and Bill Burr emphasize as an important aspect of the collective.
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Bill Burr voiced lead character Frank Murphy in F Is for Family, which premiered on Netflix on December 18,2015.
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Bill Burr writes and executive produces the series along with Michael Price.
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Burr's fifth hour-long special, Bill Burr: Walk Your Way Out, debuted on Netflix on January 31,2017.
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Bill Burr appeared in the third episode of the second season of the HBO series Crashing.
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Bill Burr has had sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden on November 14,2015, and then again on November 11,2023, the Royal Albert Hall on June 6,2018, and consecutive shows on March 4 and 5,2019.
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Bill Burr holds the record for the most consecutive sold-out shows at Boston's Wilbur Theatre, where he performed 19 sold-out shows in a row, almost doubling the record of 10 set by Aziz Ansari.
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Bill Burr sold out 20,000 seats at the Los Angeles Forum on September 28,2018.
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In 2023, Bill Burr had a cameo role as the voice of pastor Nick Saint Angelo in the episode "the wizard" of HBO series Barry.
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Chris Evangelista of SlashFilm wrote that among the films numerous cameos, Bill Burr's performance was "particularly memorable".
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Club writing, "Bill Burr seemed to have been booked as the Dave Chappelle Emeritus, a blunt-spoken comic willing to speak some possibly-uncomfortable truths, regardless of election results".
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Bill Burr was recommended to director Patrick Marber for the production by Nathan Lane, who was originally approached for the role but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.
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Lane stated, the revival had to have an "all star cast and the first person you should cast is Bill Burr" adding, "he's the leading comedian in America, a wonderful actor and sounds like a David Mamet-character".
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Bill Burr has been referred to as a "comedian's comedian" by observers of the American stand-up comedy circuit.
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Bill Burr often portrays himself as "that loud guy in the bar" with "uninformed logic".
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Bill Burr is married to Nia Renee Hill, who sometimes appears as a guest on his podcast.
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Bill Burr has named John Bonham, Dave Lombardo, and Nicko McBrain as his favorite drummers.
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Bill Burr has said that he believes political correctness fails to effectively address the problems it aims to fix, such as racism, because it only focuses on the words people use rather than changing their attitudes.
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Bill Burr has said that political correctness has no answer for, or impact on, other major sociopolitical issues such as the power held by bankers and pharmaceutical executives.
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Bill Burr voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election.
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Bill Burr did not vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election as he had a negative opinion of both.
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Bill Burr garnered attention for praising Luigi Mangione, who was charged for the December 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.