Comedian Bill Burr stopped by “The View” on Thursday morning, but apparently, his wife warned him against doing so. Why? Because of what he’s said about women in his stand-up.
Thursday marked Burr’s first time on the ABC talk show, which host Joy Behar pointed out immediately. Burr confirmed, and immediately admitted that, when he was officially locked in, his wife got skeptical.
“My wife was freaking out that I was coming on the show,” he said. “Yeah, she was like ‘Who the hell booked you on that show? You say all this dumb stuff about women, don’t go on that show.’”
“It’s a new guy,” Sara Haines joked with a grimace.
But Behar was quick to reassure him that “we are not snowflakes around here.” She also pointed out that she’s a comedian herself, so she understands what a shtick is.
As the conversation progressed, Haines wondered how Burr’s comedy has changed over the years as he’s “evolved” as a person. Burr noted that he got married and had kids, so his home life changed, and he realized he needed to work on his anger issues.
Host Ana Navarro quipped that his answer sounded like something he got from a therapist, prompting Burr to immediately joke about how men and women are treated in that realm.
“It always just sort of goes toward the guy to work on themselves,” he said.
When Behar bluntly asked what he was talking about, Burr clarified that “that sort of constructive criticism does not seem to come around the other way, to the woman.”
“This is why my wife didn’t want me to do the show,” he joked.
But don’t worry, the ABC hosts took it in stride.
