Bill Burr Credits Mushrooms For Improving His Personality | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I watched your special Drop Dead Years. Yeah. And uh loved it. And I know it's. coming out. When's it coming out? I want. to make sure I get It's out right now. Okay. We're taping this a little. beforehand. We're taping this in 1974. 1974. Very excited about the Red Sox. next year. The 75 Red Sox. Amazing. And. I'm glad that busing crisis is finally. Oh, finally. Yeah. No more racism. No. more racism in Boston. And I I'm I'm. looking forward to that story just sort. of disappearing so Boston can move. forward.

Boston will be fine. Yeah. Um, no, but. uh I watched your special and you talk. about going to the funeral of a friend. First of all, it's a very very funny I. feel it's redundant saying Bill Burr had. a really funny standup special. Why is. it so hard for you to say that about me? I just ruined against you. I ru You know. I ruined against you. You couldn't even. open your eyes. All right. On bidding. He said something that was mildly. amusing. achieved some success.

Another ginger from Boston. There's only. room for one. Just what I need. But I. watched your special and it was uh it's. fantastic. You talk about a losing a. friend and going to the funeral and of. course you have some very funny. observations about that, but it it opens. up you're it feels like you're you're. opening up a little more in this special. about your personal life and some of. your struggles and it's uh it's it's. fantastic. Oh, thank you. You know, I I. kind of uh you know, I was of that.

belief as most people that come from the. East Coast that you know, your your. anger and is like your security. blanket. And then and it's it's made you. who you are. It's why you're funny. It's. why you have character. It's all of this. stuff. And if you for some reason let go. of this and actually enjoy life or maybe. take responsibility for your actions and. see your how your behavior affects other. people uh for some reason that's going. to be like the undoing of you like uh. you know there's a lot I don't know.

about your how you came up but like in. standup there was a lot of stuff out. there don't get married don't have kids. basically don't find happiness that is. um the kryptonite to comedy and I I. found that it's it's that's not true and. it's really the opposite is is once you. kind of, you know, get yourself to a new. place, you can kind of revisit a lot of. that you talked about with like a. new like sort of point of view of it. Um, so yeah. No, I'm I'm Listen, but. believe me, dude, I I' I've only gone up. like one flight of the Empire State.

Building. That is my messed up. personality. So, uh, you know, this is. the the, uh, eternal question. Mhm. And. it's one I've thought about in comedy, which is you can be funny or you can be. happy. And I really believed in that. dichotomy. And I remember years ago. living in LA and stating that to getting. molested, doing the things you had to do to get a. late night talk show. Come on. It's out.

there now. All right. It's It's better. when you say it. Conan, say the name. We all did what we had to do. You know, I'm here now. It was a different time. Different time. A lot of couches. You know what? No one wanted me on a. couch, right? I mean, let's just be. honest. Not even your therapist. No one. Yeah. No one was like, "I got to get me. a piece of that Conan." Uh but uh that. featherless ostrich.

Why? Why do I invite you back? I don't. know. It's not right. Oh my god. I. really did believe that that was a. choice you had to make and I was okay. with being miserable. Yeah. Being. miserable and uh I thought it made me. tough. Yeah. I thought all of that stuff. like you know uh you know in all the. movies that you watch they just they.

they they made you believe in that. I. remember I watched the dirty dozen. I. watched the dirty dozen and there's that. scene where they have to shave in cold. water and we ain't shaving and blah blah. blah. So, I was sitting there thinking. like, "Oh, tough guys shave in cold. water." And I shaved in cold water for. like seven years as like a. dental assistant and standup comedian. And like it was like just something that. I I it was a subconscious thing that. that it was all of this stuff had. happened to me. So, you just always. thought I this I can't you got to get. tougher. You got to get tougher. You got.

to get tougher. So, all of this stuff. that's happening to me, I won't feel it. And what I was really doing was I was I. was walling myself off. Um, and it was. so funny. There was and there was a lot. of information out there about people. like being walled off and all of that. And I would just watch them fascinated. like, "How the do you know what. you're feeling?" Not even realizing that. I was the exact same way. And um, yeah. No, it's mushrooms. Mushrooms turned me. around. I had I had one mushroom trip. and it sort of woke me up. I've had. people tell me I should do that. I've. never done that. And I also have a long.

way to go. I'll admit that. I think I've. made progress. I you can be you can be. honest. I really do think you have and I. think mushrooms might be good for you. You've always thought uh pot would be. good for me. I did. Yes, I do. Pot's a. depress that pot is like I I don't know. And we weeded isn't weed anymore. Oh, I. mean that that would like Yeah. I. these people came over for. Thanksgiving, right? Why is it Why can't. it just be Thanksgiving? Cuz you know. something? It's how I It's how I grew up.

talking. Okay. Okay. I'm just saying I. don't mean it in a bad way. I went to my. kids christristening. Yeah, I. know. I know. Sorry. So, I had some. friends over for what is arguably I feel. the best holiday. You see, this is what. I really feel. But I said. Thanksgiving. But I really love. Thanksgiving because Yeah. It's a nice. hang and you don't have to buy anything. at the Christmas. I can't stop looking. giblets and gravy as he sips his. dainty little coffee. Nice coffee. I I had to get rid of the.

straw. Um, I'm not that I'm not evolved. enough as a man that I can drink out of. a straw and still feel all right about. myself. I just think of it as an. aluminum dick. [Laughter]. Just doing my part to to show that I'm. an ally. Aluminum dick. Wait to take another sip. Oh my god. Oh, come on. This episode is. called Conan Swallows. Um.

um anyway, what was I talking about? So, I had some. people over for Thanksgiving. Uh and. this guy go, he has a joint, right? So, you know, I'll take a couple of hits, whatever. I go, "What is this?" And he. told me, he goes, "It's a nice afternoon. sativa, right?" So, that sound like the. wind was just blowing. Yeah. Through my. non-existent hair. So, I go, "All. right." So, I Dude, I took three of the. hits off of that thing and I just wasn't. at Thanksgiving anymore. I mean, I was. like there I was like, my wife just. people kept talking to me. My wife just. kept going. He's useless. He's useless. You got to wait a couple hours. It's so.

powerful. Yeah. I No, I'm not. I It's. too late for you. No, that's why I I and. I ended up texting you some of the jokes. a few days later. That thing where we. were doing the thing uh me and this. other guy were high out of our minds and. like nobody in this industry was is have. been buying anything since the strike, but they're taking meetings wasting your. time. So, we were like we should waste. their time back. We were just pitching. sequels to perfect movies that didn't. need a sequel. And my favorite one was uh two flew over. the cuckoo's nest. This time he's. keeping the sink and and and it's it's.

all about it's all about the Indian guy. After he throws it, he picks the sink up. and he's running with it and Tommy Lee. Jones is chasing him. It's just. basically comes the fugitive. You you you merge fugitive. Yeah. And my. favorite part was he's standing near the. waterfall and he's like this sink means. a lot to me. And Tommy Lee Jones like I. don't care. and he jumps. So I I opened that up to. my podcast listeners. Dude, regular.

people are so funny now because. they're they're pitching jokes and so. now they're funny. Somebody here had the. best one wrote a sequel to Schindler's. List. It was called Schindler's Wrist. Um it's the it's about the carpal tunnel. Schindler got writing the list and and. the therapy. just this and the therapy. and the therapy that happened and the. movie just ends with him being like, "Yeah, you know, it feels pretty good, you know, just just totally. anticlimactic.". How you feeling, Schindler? I got to. say, pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah,

you're you're a wizard. They just sit. there pitching it with a straight face.