If you’re looking for a snapshot of Bill Burr’s worldview, I recommend listening to the comedian’s wide-ranging interview he sat for on NPR’s Fresh Air last week. Burr was promoting his latest stand-up special, Drop Dead Years, which premiered on Hulu Friday, and within 15 minutes on NPR, he had already worked himself up into one of his vintage rages. The target of his ire was Elon Musk or, as he put it, the “select few group of nerds” with “dyed hair plugs and a laminated face” who are authoring the end of the American experiment. Burr, with his roughneck Boston accent, asserts that the ascendant tech oligarchy has successfully obfuscated its takeover thanks to the enfeebled preciousness of the liberal mainstream. What exactly does he mean by that? Somehow, he lands on the overreaches of the #MeToo movement: “You can get canceled as a comedian for doing a Caitlyn Jenner joke, but this asshole can Sieg Heil?” he says, referring to Musk’s eyebrow-raising inauguration Nazi salute. “Where are all of these white chicks at the award shows who were speaking truth to power? Why did they choose to go after comedians and not the Ku Klux Klan?”
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