Published by The Parthenon on 9/13/13.
Bill Burr will take the stage at the Keith-Albee Theatre Wednesday for a night of unrated comedy that is not for the easily offended.
“I’m just sort of that guy you meet at a bar who makes sense for about 20 minutes, and then you figure out that I kind of almost flunked everything in high school and you just sort of laugh at me,” Burr said.
Burr said he is excited to visit West Virginia on his tour, despite the negative perception the state has.
“I think it’s a beautiful state and it really gets a bad rap,” Burr said. “The way everybody has trashed it, I thought I was going to go there and it was going to be like a junkyard, but it wasn’t. It’s gorgeous.”
Even though his most recent special “You People Are All the Same” was released last year, Burr said he has a completely new routine ready for the next one. “I could shoot it tomorrow,” Burr said. “Well, probably not tomorrow, but in a month if I wanted to.”
Burr said he believes in leaving enough time for a project to use all of its momentum.
“It’d be like if you owned a store and you put the locations too close together,” Burr said. “It’s like the store is competing with itself.”
Finding the fine line between giving fans what they want and leaving them wanting more is one that Burr said he tries to balance.
“You don’t want to be out there too much, but you don’t want people to forget about you,” Burr said. “You try to be out there without being annoying, but no matter what you end up annoying people anyway.”
Burr has most recently been seen portraying Patrick Kuby on AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” With only three episodes remaining, Burr was cryptic on whether or not viewers have seen the last of his character.
A “Breaking Bad” spinoff for character Saul Goodman, Kuby’s boss, has been discussed, but nothing is confirmed.
“If something happens, I would love to do it,” Burr said. “If not, it was awesome to be a small, small part of the show.”
Burr said this role in “Breaking Bad” has paved the way for other dramatic roles on the horizon, including his role as a lawyer in the upcoming Kevin Costner film “Black and White.”
“I’m just happy because Vince Gilligan gave me a shot on ‘Breaking Bad,’ people saw that I can do some drama,” Burr said. “I’m getting 50-50, like some funny stuff, some dramatic stuff.”
Burr also runs the successful “Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast” and is working on a mature cartoon, but is reluctant to give details until it gets a television deal.
Burr will perform Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at Marshall University’s box office in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center or Ticketmaster.com.
Tickets are $5 for fulltime Marshall students and $25 for the public. All seating is general admission.