Bill Burr Wore Pink on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Just to Trigger Anti-Woke Trolls
Conservative culture warriors spent the beginning of 2025 trying to convince the internet that legendary rant comedian Bill Burr is the face of wokeness in humor, so why wouldn’t he wear an outfit that matches his new image?
For years, angry, middle-aged, balding white guys who punch holes in their own walls every time Disney casts a Black person in a kids’ movie mistakenly believed that Burr must think exactly like them, given that he’s the closest thing to a celebrity doppelganger they’ll ever have. This is because angry, anti-woke right-wingers weren’t actually listening to what Burr has been saying about topics such as racial inequality and economic exploitation since the 1990s, probably because the constant, thunderous pumping of blood in their ears drowned out the sound of Burr’s routine.
When Burr took up the causes of defending accused CEO shooter Luigi Mangione and attacking exploitative billionaires like Elon Musk who use their immense wealth and influence to sow division in America earlier this year, he invoked the ire of conservative culture warriors and wannabe creatives like Ben Shapiro who deemed the notoriously anti-feminist, anti-PC stand-up to be the “wokest of the woke on everything from race to economics.”
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Just imagine what little Benny is going to say about the sweater Burr just wore on Late Night with Seth Meyers:
Per usual, the star of Broadway’s Glengarry Glen Ross ended his appearance on Late Night yesterday by skewering both sides of the culture war, though he had a little bit more fire for the right-wingers who are in such denial about his supposed woke indoctrination that they continue to accuse his wife Nia Renée Hill of brainwashing him into thinking that Black people both face discrimination and deserve equal rights as angry white guys on the internet.
As Burr was riffing about the state of Major League Baseball and the exorbitant payrolls of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees, he pulled out his signature “annoying, effeminate liberal” voice that once made him an unintentional right-wing icon, on which Meyers commented, “I love your intense accent work that you’ve developed about California.”
“Yeah, while wearing a pink sweater,” Burr cracked back to a big laugh and a round of applause.
“I always do something to give the trolls something to talk about,” Burr said of his styling yesterday evening. “So there’s going to be a bunch of, *meathead voice* ‘He’s wearing pink now on this liberal show, what is this some woke shit?’”
Burr then diverted the discussion toward a familiar topic that he brings up often, which is the demonization and devaluing of the very word “woke.” Burr pointed out, “You know what’s funny is that white liberals are the ones that gave the definition of ‘woke’ to whites on the right. So no white people understand, it seems, what that word really meant when they took it from Black people.”
“So people on the right just think that it means an insufferable, self-involved liberal douche,” Burr said of “woke" and its current definition. “And they’re not wrong if they’re talking about a white person!”
