Bill Burr: ‘We Don’t Have the News on in the House, Disney Movies Are Bad Enough’

KIMMEL: “Are your kids aware of what’s going on? How old are they?
BURR: “About to be 8 and 4 1/2. So they — yeah, they are, but I don’t think they understand the magnitude of it. Like, we don’t have the news on in the house. Disney movies are bad enough with one parent dying every time. You don’t need to put the news on. I know that happened to Walt, but why do we all have to pay the price?”
(Laughter)
KIMMEL: “Yeah, it’s like, we don’t want the kids to see the fires. Put on ‘Bambi.’”
BURR: “No, it gets better. It gets better.”
KIMMEL: “Do you watch those Disney movies with your kids? What do you watch with them?”
BURR: “What do I watch with them? I’ve watched lighter stuff with my daughter because she has the female brain, more evolved. And my son, swear to God, I watch ‘Kojak’ with him. Half the people don’t even know that it’s a cop show from the ’70s. I had this amazing bonding moment when he was 3. It’s a cop show from the ‘70s, so anybody who isn’t white is running down an alley with a knife, right? So, there’s this Puerto Rican actor in the prime of his life wearing a silk shirt flying down the alley like a sprinter. And a lot of people don’t know this, Telly Savalas’ brother Stavos was on the show, that was his character’s name. He was fat, he kept his hair. Telly was in shape, lost the hair, right, balance of life. So he’s this fat bastard, they have him chasing this Puerto Rican dude flying down the alley. So my 3-year-old son is watching, this Puerto Rican dude just flies by and then Stavos comes down in his Sears suit and his loafers. My son, 3 years old, just watching TV, starts going, ‘Ha-ha.’ And then I looked at him and we both just started laughing. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, he already knows a fat guy running is funny.’ It’s amazing. And like, I already saw the cigars we were going to smoke in the future. I’m like, this is my guy. Thank you.”