Hello, happy new year, etc.

Welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes.

It is a podcast about, well, jokes and those who tell them I am your host

Fulcher senior editor Jesse David Fox. What happens is each episode and this is an

episode is a comedian picks one of their jokes to play and discuss.

And this week's guest is Bill Burr.

He picked a joke from his most recent stand-up special, Walk Your Way Out.

As these things go in these fractured times, some of you might instantly be like, sure, I love Billy

Burr. He's my favorite comic. I saw him when he played Madison Square Garden.

I listen to his podcast twice a week. You know, Bill Burr stuff. While others might be like, that guy was on breaking bed,

I think he has a cartoon on Netflix about his childhood. Yeah, to the latter view, that guy is a very famous revered stand-up comic.

It's because Burr is a master of digging himself out of a hole.

You know, it's something to pay attention when I play the joke. You know he'll start with the harshest, most disagreeable part of the material like right off the top. And then he'll sort of back away from it. He'll justify it, he'll like kind of half apologize for it.

So you look for like a push and pull of how he kind of goes one step forward,

or two step back of really walking the line of like what the audience may or may not

find offensive at that time. No one is really doing this at Burrs level

currently. So after we talk about how he does this and his relationship to offending people because, you know, if you aren't offending anyone, then, you know, are you really being edgy?

So without further ado, here is Bill Burke telling a joke and then talking to me about coming up with it.

The interview was recorded live at Volchrip Festival 2016, if you're wondering why you're hearing laughter or gasps.

So enjoy.

Talking to the ladies, talking about body issues.

They're always talking about body issues.

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