Bill Burr

Burr performing in August 2006

Burr first performed stand-up comedy at the age of 23 on March 2, 1992.[10][11] He moved to New York City in 1994.[12] He 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. Also during this time he co-starred in the TV series Townies in 1996 and appeared in Two Guys and a Girl in 1998 and Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2002. He gained prominence as a regular on the Dave Chappelle's popular sketch comedy series Chappelle's Show in 2004 on Comedy Central.

Since May 2007, Burr has recorded a weekly one-hour podcast, Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, in which he speaks about his experiences, current events, going on tour, and sports, and offers advice to questions submitted by the listeners. The podcast is available on Burr's website, Spotify, YouTube, and on the All Things Comedy network he co-founded in 2012. He is sometimes joined by his wife Nia and has featured guests and interviews with other comedians.[13] In the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV, Burr voiced Jason Michaels of the biker gang The Lost MC in the mission "No Love Lost". In 2009, he reprised his role in the game's expansion pack The Lost and Damned.

Burr also 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,[14] The Joe Rogan Experience,[15][16] WTF with Marc Maron,[17] The Nerdist Podcast,[18] The Adam Buxton Podcast, and Nobody Likes Onions.[19][20] Burr was also the first guest on Tom Green's podcast. Burr's first hour-long special, Why Do I Do This? (2008), was filmed in New York.[21]

Burr's special Let it Go was recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco and premiered on Comedy Central on September 18, 2010. That same year Burr appeared in the comedy film Date Night as Detective Walsh. On April 18, 2011, he guest hosted the Hollywood Babble-On podcast alongside Ralph Garman.[22] He has also appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of AMC's Breaking Bad as Patrick Kuby from 2011 to 2013.[23] A later special, You People Are All the Same, premiered in 2012 as a Netflix exclusive.[24] Burr's stand-up special You People Are All the Same (2012) was the first to premiere exclusively on Netflix. He played Mark Mullins in the 2013 buddy cop film The Heat. In 2014, Burr filmed his fourth hour-long special I'm Sorry You Feel That Way at the Tabernacle Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. Unusual for modern comedy specials, the film was shot in black and white.

All Things Comedy was officially launched on October 1, 2012, with a roster of 11 podcasts including Burr's own Monday Morning Podcast, The Long Shot Podcast by Eddie Pepitone, and Skeptic Tank by Ari Shaffir.[25][26] By 2014, the network had six dozen members and over 50 podcasts.[27][28] The network was started out by comedians Al Madrigal and Bill Burr with The Daily Show on the All Things Comedy website.[29] The network was established as an artist owned cooperative, which Madrigal and Burr emphasize as an important aspect of the collective.[30] All Things Records was started in March 2014 and released three albums in the months following its creation including Believe in Yourself by Sam Tripoli, Live at the Comedy Castle by Brian Scolaro, and This Will Make an Excellent Horcrux by Jackie Kashian.[28] Madrigal sees the network as a way of improving representation of Latin American people in media.[31] For instance, the network provides Spanish-language podcasts such as Leyendas Legendarias and El Dollop.[32][33][34] All Things Comedy also partnered with Comedy Central to produce a documentary about Patrice O'Neal in addition to three comedy specials.[35][36]

Burr voiced lead character Frank Murphy in F Is for Family, which premiered on Netflix on December 18, 2015. The show was the first original Netflix animated series. The show, an animated sitcom he created and co-wrote, drew on Burr's stand-up and the absurdity of political correctness. Season 4 of the series debuted on Netflix on June 12, 2020.[37] Burr writes and executive produces the series along with Michael Price.[38] Burr's fifth hour-long special, Bill Burr: Walk Your Way Out, debuted on Netflix on January 31, 2017. He appeared in the third episode (titled "Bill Burr") of the second season of the HBO series Crashing.[39]

His sixth hour-long special, Paper Tiger, debuted on Netflix on September 10, 2019. He premiered a new podcast co-hosted with fellow comedian Bert Kreischer, called the Bill Bert Podcast, in October. In December, he played Migs Mayfeld in two episodes of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. In 2022 he acted in the Judd Apatow directed comedy film The King of Staten Island starring Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, and Maude Apatow. He promoted the film on October 10, 2020, by hosting NBC's Saturday Night Live for the first time.[40][41][42] In March 2022, it was announced that Burr will make his feature directorial debut with Old Dads, which he will also write and star in.[43] A few months later, he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series nomination for the dark comedy series Immoral Compass (2021–present).[44] His seventh stand-up special, Live at Red Rocks, was released on July 12.[45]

On August 21, 2022, he became the first comedian to perform at Fenway Park, in front of a sold-out crowd[46] of around 35,000 people; it was also the largest comedy show in the history of Boston.[47] Burr has had sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden on November 14, 2015,[48][49] the Royal Albert Hall on June 6, 2018,[50] and consecutive shows on March 4 and 5, 2019.[51][52] He holds the record for the most consecutive sold-out shows at the Wilbur Theatre, where he performed 19 sold-out shows in a row, almost doubling the record of 10 set by Aziz Ansari.[53] Burr sold out 20,000 seats at the Los Angeles Forum on September 28, 2018.[54][55] On Sep 16, 2021, he sold out Red Rocks Amphitheatre.[56]

In 2023 he had a cameo role as the voice of Pastor Nick Saint Angelo in the HBO series Barry episode "the wizard" starring Bill Hader.