"That's a Bill Burr 2004 right there." Legendary comedian Bill Burr reviews some of the most popular impressions of himself and gives his opinion on each one. From Jay Pharoah and Marina Franklin to Andrew Santino and even Jon Lovitz, here are some of the best impressions of Jeff Goldblum.Check out Bill's film, Old Dads, on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81674327 His Monday Morning Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5SFiQlOQ3EKmwp0chE1QzYAnd all of his tour dates: https://billburr.com/#tourdatesDirector: Funmi SunmonuDirector of Photography: Grant BellEditor: Richard TrammellTalent: Bill BurrProducer: Emebeit BeyeneTalent Booker: Paige GarbariniCamera Operator: Nick Massey; Lucas VilicichSound Recordist: Cassiano PereiraProduction Assistant: Liza Antonova; Shenelle JonesStylist: Lauren PrestonHair & Make-Up: Vanessa RenePost Production Supervisor: Christian OlguinPost Production Coordinator: Scout AlterSupervising Editor: Doug LarsenAssistant Editor: Andy Morell
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00:00 - Who likes to see an impression of themselves?
00:02 [laughs]
00:03 - It's like you can't just go around calling people fat.
00:06 - I wish I was still that animated.
00:08 I'd get rid of this [beep] COVID weight.
00:10 Hey, Vanity Fair peoples, I'm Bill Burr.
00:13 And today I'm going to be watching people
00:15 doing impressions of me.
00:16 - It's glued to the back of his head.
00:18 [yells]
00:20 - It's early Bill Burr.
00:21 - You do these easy impressions.
00:23 You know, you do your thing.
00:25 You do 'em easy.
00:27 You know, they're easy to do.
00:28 It's not hard, you know.
00:30 Do somebody else.
00:31 Somebody hard.
00:33 Somebody from Boston.
00:34 You know?
00:35 Do Burr.
00:37 - It's too much New York in that one.
00:40 [laughs]
00:42 No, he's got the cadence, but he still has the, oh.
00:46 - They're easy to do.
00:47 - Now I gotta like shit on another comedian.
00:49 You know, it's better than I could do an impression of him.
00:51 How about that?
00:52 That impression is me if I grew up in like New York,
00:55 like Queens or something.
00:57 Like, "Hey, hey, fucking, standing here."
01:00 Yeah, they got a little bit of that.
01:02 Jay should get on with his life.
01:04 There's no money in him doing an impression of me.
01:06 I would move on to Ben Affleck
01:08 or somebody a little better known.
01:10 - Okay, shut the fuck up.
01:12 Sit down, okay, all right.
01:15 All right, look.
01:16 Okay, all right, look.
01:17 All right, you know, I'm not trying to be a dick, okay?
01:19 Okay, hang, hang, hang, dinner.
01:21 Hang on, hang on, hang on.
01:23 [laughs]
01:24 It's too fucking expensive to live here, you know?
01:26 Everyone wants to live off,
01:27 "Oh, I wanna live off the L train," you know?
01:29 - Wow, that guy takes it, man.
01:30 That was amazing.
01:31 I tell you what, it's weirding me out,
01:33 people with hair doing it, and they're skinny and shit.
01:35 And I feel like I'm watching one of my old VHS tapes.
01:38 That guy is amazing.
01:39 - I feel like in five years,
01:40 the L train's just gonna go cross country, you know?
01:42 Just so people can sit and they live,
01:43 "Yeah, I live off the L train.
01:44 "I'm off the Wilmington, Delaware stuff."
01:47 [audience laughs]
01:48 Oh, it's brutal, it's fucking brutal!
01:50 - Yeah, he had the whole thing.
01:52 He's doing me in like 2004, 2007.
01:55 I think I used to own that shirt.
01:57 Me did the whole thing.
01:58 I used to have it unbuttoned a little more,
02:00 back when I was single, you know,
02:02 trying to attract people with my alabaster-freckled chest.
02:05 [laughs]
02:07 That didn't work out for me.
02:08 No, that was amazing.
02:09 Very talented.
02:10 I don't ever wanna see those again.
02:12 I don't wanna be in my head about what it is that I,
02:14 I know I lean on the mic stand.
02:16 What I'm doing is working for me.
02:17 I don't need these people to be pulling it apart, you know?
02:19 Take one thread out and then that's it.
02:21 Then all of a sudden I care about people, right?
02:24 - Invitations the best form of flattery, no?
02:26 - No.
02:27 Depends on how it's done.
02:29 None of these impressions so far have me depicted
02:31 as particularly intelligent, I can tell you that.
02:33 [laughs]
02:34 It's me, ah, ah, eh, ah, what the fuck, ah.
02:38 The Republicans are all like,
02:39 how did 81 million people vote for Biden?
02:42 It's like they didn't vote for Biden, all right?
02:45 They voted against Trump.
02:46 Yeah, it's like they hated him, you know?
02:48 Yeah, it's like they hated him
02:49 more than like a child molester, you know?
02:51 It's kind of, never seen anything like it, you know?
02:53 Then you ask him why, you're like, why do you hate Trump?
02:55 It's like, ah, somebody told me
02:57 that he called Rocio Donald fat.
03:00 [laughs]
03:02 Yeah, that's fantastic.
03:03 These people, they're doing a really good job.
03:05 I just was watching the man you're,
03:07 it was really just, this guy and the last guy,
03:09 they just, I started remembering gigs
03:12 where I recorded myself and would go back,
03:15 'cause you know, making a tape,
03:16 trying to get like a agent or something like that.
03:19 And during this period of my career,
03:22 I couldn't watch myself.
03:24 I'm like, what am I doing?
03:25 Why am I moving around like that?
03:27 That, what he's doing there,
03:28 that was all like nervous energy,
03:31 frustration with where my career was at
03:33 and all of this other stuff, so yeah.
03:35 Wow.
03:36 These are all like Bill Burr fine wine.
03:38 That's a Bill Burr 2004 right there.
03:42 Oh God, you know, you saying all these kind things to me
03:46 and now I gotta be nice to you.
03:49 That's a high pitch, like a soprano.
03:51 It's because it's early Bill Burr.
03:54 It's early Bill Burr.
03:56 You gotta know.
03:57 It's really good.
03:58 You gotta know.
03:59 Yeah, that must've been really, really,
04:02 really, really early on.
04:04 Yeah, Marina's been breaking my balls for years, so.
04:07 That was actually a lot nicer
04:08 than I thought it was gonna be.
04:09 I would add a little hopelessness,
04:13 but the euphoria that comes when you just don't care.
04:17 When the hell did we meet?
04:18 Like '99, 2000.
04:20 So I think that just got burned into her brain, so.
04:23 This is like wild.
04:24 It's like watching my, like I said, my old standup tapes,
04:27 which I don't do, but like if I were to do that,
04:30 these are all very good.
04:31 Marina did a great job.
04:32 Oh dude, fucking this guy, Jay Pharoah.
04:35 Love that guy.
04:36 (laughing)
04:38 Fucking guy.
04:39 Pharoah.
04:40 Fucking Pharoah.
04:41 His fucking beanie's hanging off his head.
04:43 Like he's the fucking summer winter for this guy.
04:45 How the fuck does this stay on?
04:47 Yeah, yeah.
04:48 The fuck, is it glue?
04:49 Is it Gorilla Glue?
04:50 What's he doing?
04:51 It's glue.
04:52 It's glue.
04:52 It's glue to the back of his head.
04:54 (laughing)
04:55 Well, I mean, with the face swap, that was pretty wild.
04:59 Yeah, I mean, that was pretty good, you know.
05:01 I have a choppy cadence, I guess.
05:04 Summer winter for this guy.
05:05 This is why I didn't want to do this shit,
05:06 'cause I don't want to know what it is that I do.
05:08 I mean, I think that was the clean version of it.
05:10 That sounded like young me,
05:11 as opposed to beaten down by life that you now see,
05:15 which is why I'm wearing my happy blue sweater
05:17 to try to offset where I am mentally right now.
05:19 I mean, I don't really listen to myself.
05:21 It's not like I watch.
05:23 I think, no, it sounded good to me, I think.
05:28 I mean, I was too weirded out by the fact
05:30 that my face was on his face.
05:31 Yeah, and I was like, I used to have hair.
05:33 Oh shit, is he my AI replacement?
05:35 (laughing)
05:37 AI Andrew Santino is gonna come kill me one night.
05:40 The Illuminati liked you better when you had hair.
05:43 And then that'll be the end of me.
05:44 But that'll be good,
05:45 'cause I won't have to go to LAX anymore.
05:46 Fantastic.
05:47 I'm gonna leave my doors unlocked tonight.
05:49 Get off of it.
05:50 Bro, nobody gives a fuck.
05:52 This is podcast me.
05:53 Fucking cordyceps on me, I barely eat mushrooms as is.
05:56 There you go.
05:57 See, now that makes me feel like he listens to my podcast.
06:00 I mean, you wanna talk on a podcast
06:02 about something else,
06:02 and everybody's just losing their mind.
06:05 Yeah, that was a good one.
06:07 Well, he did say talk,
06:08 so he got a little New York in there.
06:09 I got a lot of New York guys doing impressions of me.
06:11 That's pretty cool.
06:12 What I liked about this one is I feel like
06:15 he was doing not me doing standup.
06:17 He was doing the podcast,
06:19 where it's just more like you're hanging out,
06:21 and I'm just like talking and you're listening
06:22 for whatever reason,
06:23 getting through your cardio,
06:24 or some awful Southwest flight,
06:26 whatever the hell it is you're doing.
06:27 That's almost cigar,
06:29 smoking a cigar with me.
06:30 I slouched down the seat like that,
06:32 and I'm like, "Hey, that's all bullshit.
06:33 "All these fucking people out here,
06:35 "what are you gonna do?"
06:36 [laughs]
06:37 Acting like I'm saying something when I'm not.
06:39 Yeah, that was a great one.
06:40 I thought this was gonna be a lot more painful.
06:42 I'm enjoying this.
06:43 I was just like, you know,
06:44 thought the self-loathing was gonna come up.
06:46 But they're actually, these are really funny.
06:48 - This is your whole act.
06:50 Albert Einstein's a genius.
06:51 What do you think, Bill?
06:52 [grunts]
06:53 Is he?
06:54 Is he?
06:55 Really?
06:56 He couldn't even get a decent haircut.
06:57 What's that?
06:59 His mustache, he couldn't trim it.
07:01 The guy who had the AD,
07:02 he was just, you know,
07:03 how'd you come up with this stuff, Albert?
07:05 - Ah, that's one of my favorite people
07:07 I have met since I got in this business.
07:10 I love John Lovitz.
07:11 He's old school, old school guy.
07:13 Like, I can't argue anything
07:15 that he's saying about my act.
07:16 There weren't so many assholes in the world.
07:18 What would be a great show
07:19 would be our phone conversations
07:21 and our text messages,
07:22 because that podcast,
07:24 which I highly recommend you check out,
07:26 'cause John was on fire that day trashing me,
07:28 is nowhere near what we do on the phone.
07:30 - He likes John's impression of you.
07:33 Is that your favorite?
07:33 - I can't pick favorites here.
07:35 I gotta run into all these people down at the club.
07:36 You're gonna create all this drama.
07:38 I liked, for different reasons,
07:40 I loved John because, you know,
07:43 he just, he gets like right to it.
07:44 He's like a surgeon.
07:45 He just goes right for the nerve.
07:47 So I like him 'cause he was being funny,
07:49 but he's also really trying to trash me.
07:50 So he's also a legend.
07:52 So I love that one.
07:54 I love Marina's 'cause I know her
07:55 from way back in the day.
07:57 Andrew Santino's as far as creepy factor
07:59 with the face swap was incredible.
08:01 The one kid who came out with the shirt.
08:04 I mean, I liked them all.
08:05 They were really good.
08:06 I'm flattered that people that funny
08:09 have listened to me enough,
08:10 taken the time to listen to whatever it is I'm doing
08:12 that they can do an impression.
08:14 All right, I just wanna thank all the amazing comedians
08:17 that took time out of their busy schedules
08:19 to do an impression of me.
08:20 I'm very flattered.
08:21 You all did a great job.
08:22 And now I hate myself even more.
08:24 Thank you.
08:25 Thank you, Vanity Fair.
08:27 I wore a sweater for you guys
08:29 to feel even worse about myself.
08:30 (upbeat music)
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