BellaOnline Forums Relationships Married No Kids Comedian Bill Burr on Letterman Friday night

I was just wondering if any of you guys caught comedian Bill Burr's stand-up routine on Letterman Friday night....if not, well, it was a good rant that you would have appreciated, and funny too.

He first started by talking about how he wants to get a puppy, and he doesn't appreciate all of the strangers' comments about how he'll have to get the puppy fixed. He then was talking some about whether he would really need to get the dog fixed, which I didn't really agree with, because I am all for spaying/neutering to make sure the population of stray animals out there doesn't get too high, but then he went in another direction, and it totally cracked me up.

He started talking about how you'll see "experts" come on TV and say "The deer population is getting too high," and the like, and how they advise everyone to take part in the upcoming hunting season. He thinks that's not cool, since deer aren't really doing anything to hurt us (other than crossing the highway and causing wrecks, of course, but highways are usually in the middle of their habitats). He said "Why is it that when Phil has 15 kids, with another one on the way, no one says, 'make sure to take part in hunting season and shoot Phil down?'" Of course, he said it in a funnier way (something to the effect of shooting Phil in the face), but you get the gist. He said something like "Seriously, after you have 3 mediocre kids, is there really a need to go for a 4th? It's not like you're suddenly going to have one that is really that special." He said that the increase in "mediocre" people leads to more unnecessary traffic, more people standing in line at restaurants/coffee shops not knowing what to order, etc. He said there should be a halt to breeding for 25-30 years, because every minute, 1 person dies, but 3 are born. He said that we should let the population get down to around 30,000, and then we'd all be happy, getting to work earlier, and among other things, we would all get to attend the Super Bowl.

I just loved the routine, and of course, his little comments were probably much funnier than what I've conveyed here, but I thought you would appreciate it.

Ha ha! I love it! My favorite line was about people standing in line not knowing what order at restaurants. Isn't that the worst, when not only are they going to take forever ordering because there's so freaking many of them, but then they can't even decide? I want there to be a sign that says, "Groups of more than 3 people have to order in 2 minutes or less or they will have to go to the back of the line."

Here is the clip you're talking about:

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Thanks for providing the YouTube link - I figured it would probably be on there, but I hadn't gotten around to looking it up yet.

When Bill said that we should make babies illegal for the next 20 or 30 years, you could hear a pin drop. If me and my other CF friend were in the audience, you would have heard a chink of a couple of vodka and tonic glasses enthusiastic clapping and a couple of "Woo-hoos!"

That was hilarious! Thanks for sharing! I'm going to have my DH watch that tonight.

I just watched the clip. That was awesome! If only more people thought like him (in concept, not necessarily the extreme ideas he used for a laugh), this world would be a lot more spacious.