Bill Burr is an accomplished standup comedian who for the past four years has been broadcasting The Monday Morning Podcast, the latest of which at this writing (March 28) currently enjoys 12 bars out of 12 in the “Popularity” column on Apple’s iTunes Store. Burr has a Twitter and a dot-com, he is one of the writers and stars of a short film called Cheat, which has been selected to run in the Tribeca Film Festival, and most importantly for us here in Baltimore, he is appearing at the Recher Theatre in Towson for two performances of his standup comedy show “You People Are All the Same.”

We joined Burr via telephony to his apartment in Los Angeles, Calif., at 8:45 in the morning, Pacific Time. So as not to wake his girlfriend, Burr had been standing in the apartment’s laundry room since 7 a.m., participating in phone interviews with People Like Us every 15 minutes or so.

City Paper: On your podcast you seem to be completely automatic, unfiltered, somewhat unpleasant, even. Is that because you do not prepare for it?

Bill Burr: No, I’m just fucking around. Whatever topic gets brought up I just go off on it. I just do it. I select the questions that have an appeal to me, but I don’t write down anything or work it out, that would be way too much work. (laughs) I just go on and try to get on a roll. I’ve done podcasts for, like, 37 minutes or something and it kinda dies and I just stop it, hit erase and I just start over again.

CP: So it’s just you being a real human being.

BB: It’s me being a jerk. Like I said, I go off on everything, and it’s funny, people love the podcast and they laugh, but there is a certain segment of people, they laugh at everything until you come around to something they’re into and all of a sudden they get all sensitive. I’m not funny anymore, I’m making statements, and they would say, “You know your statements about obese people, your statements about potheads, or, your statements about my football or hockey team, you know” . . . It’s me being silly, you’re not supposed to take my podcasts seriously. People asked me a question, “If you’re in a gymnasium, and it’s full of 6-year olds, how many you think you could kill before they overtook you?” It’s a ridiculous question, but I answered it, and it was funny. I do it every Monday, because I remember when I had a real job I hated going to work on Monday, so it’s just something that’s supposed to make you laugh, it’s supposed to be over the top, it’s supposed to be ignorant, it’s supposed to be all of those things, and you’re not supposed to take it seriously, and it’s kind of a way that I weed out certain people. Like if people ever send me an e-mail that they’re offended by my thoughts on potheads—you know somebody said that—he goes, “Yeah, I’m thinking about unsubscribing,” and I just said back, “Then fucking unsubscribe, I’m not making any money on this thing.”

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