Good lord, all these people seem adept at is missing the point of stand-up comedy. The writer, likely unknowingly, just proves Burr's points:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90402673...bout-bill-burr
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If Burr actually thought he had anything to lose by complaining about how hard it is to be a comedian in 2019, that the diehard fanbase he’s carefully cultivated over decades of stand-up wouldn’t come along for this ride, he might comport himself differently. But because he knows there’s a brewing cultural backlash aligned with his own beliefs about what topics should remain forever fashionable, he is able to couch his old-fashioned ideas in the premise that they’re just too powerful and dangerous.
They’re not, though. They’re mostly just hostile expressions of aggrievement. That’s been part of his bread and butter all along anyway, but now the focus of his ire has shifted. Whereas once he yelled about how fat people eating too enthusiastically at the airport disgust him, now he’s yelling about how hypothetical fat people might respond to his fat jokes, given the climate.
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There’s that word “triggered” again, the absolute worst thing a person can be in a comedian’s eyes, even though very few people, at least in my endless scrolling of the internet, seem to identify that way in earnest anymore. These comics—and the reactionary pundits suddenly cheering them on—are so obsessed with belittling the outraged that they can’t even take a second to bask in the victory of having banished ‘triggered’ from one side of the discourse. Instead, they churn out more material about how the people triggered by the wrong things are bad and the brave heroes triggered by those people are actually amazing. The irony of it all is lost on them.
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Strange, because that's his exact message. He's not lamenting the age of comedy, he's pointing out how utterly stupid it all is. By decontextualizing his special and being triggered by exaggerated comedy routines the writer has essentially proven him right. It's insane. Don't be upset that you missed it, or that your perspective might just be open to criticism. It's not his fault if the other side internalizes it as justification for their own beliefs. In fact he has a whole bit about this in one of his previous specials (I believe it was Sorry You Feel That Way).