Conservative Comedy Fans Accuse Bill Burr of Going Woke for Roasting the L.A. Fire Conspiracy Theories
Is it woke to believe that extreme drought conditions and 90-mile-per-hour winds caused the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires instead of trusting Whitney Cummings’ homeless hang-gliding arsonist theory? Bill Burr’s former fans certainly think so.
The stand-up icon Burr is among the dozens of A-list comedians whose families evacuated their homes during the destructive blazes that broke out in Los Angeles County last week and continue to burn today. While the Burr household stayed intact thanks to the hard work of the first responders protecting Burr’s neighborhood, the comic isn’t about to strip down to his skivvies, crawl into his unburned basement and start criticizing firefighters and local officials on the internet from the safety of an armchair just yet, unlike so many unlovable and vocal commenters in the corners of the internet where Burr used to be a hero.
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Burr appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night where he praised the men and women on the front lines who continue to protect lives and property, describing the response to the wildfires as “the perfect awful thing that could have happened” while mercilessly mocking everyone who is currently lobbing accusations and conspiracy theories at local officials from the far sidelines of the disaster.
Burr began his appearance on the late-night show by laying into the right-wing rubes who have been criticizing California officials and first responders for their management of the fires while spreading ridiculous disinformation about supposed roving unhoused arsonists causing the fires instead of, you know, extreme weather and drought conditions exacerbated by climate change. “I love how all the chatter out there is about bands of illegal immigrants and homeless people lighting fires,” Burr said of the astoundingly popular conspiracy that some of his dumber fellow comics have endorsed. “They’re lighting fires everyday! They’re living outside! They’re fucking cold!”
“This theory (claims) that some homeless guy without a car went from Altadena all the way to the Pacific Palisades — what, did he have a hang glider?” Burr joked about Cummings’ favorite theory on the fire’s origin.
Unfortunately for Burr, the double-whammy of praising any public servant in the State of California and refusing to toe the conservative company line on the latest insane conspiracy that the right is pushing to distract from real issues landed the comedian on the woke list for some of his angriest ex-fans:
It’s always funny to see how the crowd of conservative “comedy” fans who rail against identity politics in stand-up assume that every angry, bald, middle-aged white guy who does rant comedy has an artistic obligation to reflect every one of their views, simply because these fans are also angry, bald, middle-aged and white. Anyone who has actually listened to Burr’s stand-up over the last three decades instead of just watching his face get red while assuming some immigrant must be on the receiving end of his rage knows that Burr has had no patience for this kind of bullshit since the beginning.
Nevertheless, these former “fans” will just baselessly claim that Burr went woke and, therefore, broke when he refused to believe that flying vagrants wielding gasoline canisters are America’s largest environmental threat. Burr might as well have written in AOC for president when he failed to use his time on Kimmel to proclaim that anyone who works for the local government in California must be a useless woke diversity hire who took her/their/xer job from a more deserving, completely bald white man.
Burr will go woke in his new Hulu special Drop Dead Years on March 14th, and, in that same spring, he’ll go broke in his Broadway debut in the infamously leftist play Glengarry Glen Ross by David “DEI” Mamet.
