An alright standup special
It's a decent enough stand-up special. I often find Bill Burr entertaining without ever loving his specials, as he tackles topics that are kind of tired in a way that's usually amusing, thankfully, but never hilarious (not to me at least). Topics like gender, being in your 40s/50s, the "struggles" of fame, politics, cancel culture, the difficulties of being a comedian in current times- all those sorts of things.
I do like how he rides a line of being almost too much of an angry middle-aged comedian, but dials it back just after that he never goes too far. It ties into the whole making jokes out of ordinary topics thing, and while Burr is better than 90% of the comedians who tackle those topics in a way that's unbearable to watch, he's not quite among the few that can spin that stuff miraculously into gold; more like very listenable and sometimes amusing bronze.
I do like how he rides a line of being almost too much of an angry middle-aged comedian, but dials it back just after that he never goes too far. It ties into the whole making jokes out of ordinary topics thing, and while Burr is better than 90% of the comedians who tackle those topics in a way that's unbearable to watch, he's not quite among the few that can spin that stuff miraculously into gold; more like very listenable and sometimes amusing bronze.
- Jeremy_Urquhart
- Jul 22, 2022