05-09-2015, 05:52 PM,
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RE: Haley's voicing a character in "F is For Family"
Quote:A little shy of two weeks before an unprecedented 19-show run at the Wilbur Theatre, Bill Burr is feeling nostalgic. He has been playing the big rooms for a while now — when he performs in Boston, he’s a regular at the 1,200-seat theater. But the Canton native remembers much smaller rooms, and much leaner times, a short walk away.
“I’ve definitely been thinking about how I started my whole career right across the street at Nick’s Comedy Stop,” he says, speaking by phone on his way to a gig in Jackson, Miss. “It’s making me think about driving my beat-up truck in for no money for all those years, driving in there and meeting Patrice [O’Neal] and Dane [Cook] and Robert Kelly all those years ago.”
Burr, 46, talks like a comic who’s still struggling to reach the top. He’s glad he’s still doing stand-up after all these years, he says, and that people still care to come out and see him. Do they ever. Seventeen of those 19 shows, which begin Saturday, were sold out at press time.
...Burr is still building on an already formidable arsenal of comedic skills. “I focus on the artistic side of it,” he says. “And with each hour that I do, there’s a new skill that I’m working on that I’m trying to add to what it is that I did previously. Once I learned how to write a joke, then it was, like, acting them out, and then there was a little bit learning how to do one-way conversations. There’s always been little things you can add that just makes you a little bit better.”
...As much as Burr is hitting right now, he has had a miss or two. “Pariah,” a pilot for FX in which Burr was to play a disgraced TV personality, seemed like a perfect fit. It didn’t get picked up by the network, proof to Burr that he has to keep working.
“See that?” he says. “And everybody was going, ‘Oh my God, that [expletive] pilot is hilarious,’ yadda yadda yadda yadda. And then boom, takes your legs out. It was good that I had two [TV projects] going. I got one of them over the wall.”
The one that did get picked up is the animated “F Is for Family,” which Burr created with “Simpsons” writer and producer Michael Price. The six-episode series centers on a family in 1974. It’s set to debut on Netflix in December, and stars Burr, Laura Dern, Mo Collins, Sam Rockwell, Justin Long, Gary Cole, David Koechner, Kevin Farley, and Hayley Reinhart.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-...l#comments
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