Comic Bill Burr
Nationally known stand-up comic Bill Burr performed at the Fox Theatre on Sunday night, and on the following day on his Monday morning podcast, he went on to praise Detroit. (Though, after listening to him, you realize he may need a little geography lesson about Detroit, lakes and rivers.)
In 2013, the New York Times wrote that Burr "has been one of the funniest, most distinctive voices in the country for years."
Here's what he had to say:
"I am in beautiful downtown Detroit. Michigan. I know some of you probably laugh cause you (hear) all that fucking shit about Detroit all the time. This fucking city is awesome. Can be scary, I'm not going to lie to you. But every time I come here it gets a little bit better. You know it's kind of a fucking exciting thing, you know.. It's one of our great cities here.
"Sits here right by the lake. Right. Lake Erie. Beautiful goddamn city. You know I like when you go through Detroit, you always see a bunch of Cadillacs, Buicks, even though those fucking cunts left this place... I don't know who's at fault for that shit, if it really is just the corporate greed or if the unions became just such cunts it was cheaper. I always go with the corporate guys being assholes because you know, basically if you didn't have the unions we'd have sweat shop labor in this country."
