Bill Burr (aka Billy Burr) is an American stand-up comedian, born June 10, 1968 in Canton, Massachusetts. In 1995, he moved to New York City and lived there for eight months. He then moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked on a number of film and television projects.

He returned to New York in 1999 and moved back to Los Angeles in 2008, where he currently resides. He performs over three hundred shows annually, had two movies released in 2006, and has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. In 2004, he began working on Chappelle's Show, and in September 2005, his HBO One Night Stand special aired.

Along with many other projects, Burr has also been a guest comedian on the Bob and Tom Show as well as on the Opie and Anthony Show on XM Satellite Radio, sometimes sitting in when third member Jim Norton is away. He has also performed on the Comedy Central Presents show. In 2006, he gained notoriety among comedic circles for an incident in Camden, New Jersey as a part of Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour.

Prior to Burr, comedian Dom Irrera was booed. Burr, the following comedian, criticized the audience as shallow. He abandoned his scripted material entirely, proceeding to hurl profanity-laced insult after insult toward the crowd (mostly from nearby Philadelphia).

He incorporated historic Philadelphia references into the tirade. He continued in this off-the-cuff manner for over ten minutes, and was treated to a lengthy standing ovation as he left the stage.[citations needed]

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