Bill Burr: Write like you're talking to friends
"The process was trying to become as comfortable as I was in a bar."
Comedian Bill Burr:
I used to write it all out and then I don’t write it now. I just treat it like how I used to if something funny had happened at work, if I was going to go tell my friends, I wouldn’t write it all out, memorize it, rehearse it in front of a mirror. I would just go up and I would just tell them the story. And I would act out all the characters and all that the way I did. But what happens is when you go on stage is you can bomb, you can have a bad show. There’s all that self-conscious stuff. So I guess the process was trying to become as comfortable as I was in a bar, shooting the shit with my friends, being that comfortable on stage. And that took a while.
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