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Bill Burr “Drop Dead Years” Comedy Special Trailer [Video]

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One sign of just how weird things have gotten on this planet of late: The most outspoken progressive with a mainstream-media platform in 2025 is the comedian Bill Burr.

We’re reasonably sure Burr would recoil from that characterization; for more than thirty years, he’s been one of the most proudly adversarial voices in stand-up comedy, a ferocious Boston ball-buster who punched up, down and sideways in his act but took particular glee in putting liberal sanctimony on blast.

But profound and unprecedented historical upheaval has a way of moving the goalposts for everybody. And in the delirious aftermath of the 2024 election, Burr has emerged as just about the only public figure willing to call a mask-off moment for oligarchy what it is, whether he’s roasting our Big Tech shadow president Elon Musk (“Look at that guy, with his Turkish hair plugs and his laminated face—and now he’s out here sieg-heiling”), delivering a sincere argument on his Monday Morning Podcast that billionaires should be put down “like fucking rabid dogs,” or sitting on Jimmy Kimmel’s couch and shouting “Free Luigi” on national TV while Jimmy’s whole career flashes before his eyes.

All this might be simply an expression of the same contrarian impulse that’s fuelled him all these years—this is, after all, the same Bill Burr who went down in comedy history some years ago for treating an unruly Philadelphia crowd to a twelve-minute blitzkrieg of fuck-Philly jokes that began, “I hope you all fucking die, and I hope those fucking Eagles never win the Super Bowl. Go fuck yourselves” and only went harder from there. But with comedy (and pop culture in general) tacking cravenly to the right to curry favor with an ascendant Dork Reich, Burr’s oppositional defiance looks a whole lot like bravery.

Whether Burr will continue angling for a spot on a DOGE watchlist in his next Hulu special Drop Dead Years, which hits the streamer next month, remains to be seen. Filmed last summer at the Moore Theater in Seattle, it’s supposedly his most personal hour to date; the trailer, which you can check out below, finds Burr (who turns 57 in June) teeing off on open-casket funerals (“I don’t get it…You told me he was dead; I believed you!”) as well his own more-statistically-likely-than-ever demise. In a forthcoming conversation with GQ, Burr—who’ll also make his Broadway debut this coming month in Glengarry Glen Ross, playing Dave Moss, the Ed Harris part, opposite Kieran Culkin’s Ricky Roma—says his approach to comedy has changed after a brief “existential crisis” led him to question his motivation for still getting onstage after all these years.

Eventually, he explains, “this voice in my head said, ‘Well, maybe you could do it for the crowd for once, instead of being so goddamn selfish. Maybe somebody out there is having a bad time or their home life is coming unraveled or they don’t have a home. Maybe you could do it for them.’ I feel like finally getting out [from] between my ears and actually thinking about other people…brought this lightness, I like to think, anyways, to what I’m doing up there. I’m still talking about crazy stuff, but it’s not coming from the desperate or angry place that it used to be.”

Drop Dead Years premieres on Hulu on March 14th.

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