Bill Burr
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Gene Kelly, Harry Belafonte, Ella Fitzgerald.
I mean, it was crazy lineup.
And...
Jimmy Durante and all this shit.
This was like, it was a big deal that this is the first time like marrying Hollywood and politics.
Now where that's led us is probably a bad thing, but, um,
It was just, I don't know, watching all these performances and everything.
So we're watching Ethel Merman and she's literally wearing just like this winter coat during the performance because she went there for rehearsals and she got stuck in the snow and couldn't get back to her hotel.
And she was a Republican and still sang songs.
To the president.
And rather than all these fucking douches today.
I'm not fucking going there.
Fuck you shit right.
She put her politics aside and she did it.
And as she was singing.
Nia just goes.
She said something like, there's a fucking, there is a tough broad.
And I just started laughing.
And I said, what do you mean?
She goes, you can just see it.