Comedian Bill Burr gave college kids a reality check when he said that he hates liberals and how hypocritical they are during his latest performance at UC Berkeley.
He specifically targeted white liberals during his Saturday night show on the campus, saying, “I f**king hate liberals.”
SF Gate reported that Burr’s set also included jokes about the Israel-Hamas conflict, transgender issues, and President Joe Biden’s cognitive state.
The “Old Dads” star pointed out how white liberals are thrilled to display Black Lives Matter signs on their property, but fail to take meaningful action to support the movement.
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“That’s like if I told you my great grandmother in Germany had a ‘Knock it off, Nazis’ sign,” he quipped.
While Burr did not clarify what liberals could do to address “white supremacy” in the country, he did tell the college kids that they should be on the lookout for self-proclaimed “empaths.”
“If you run into a white person who says they’re an empath, run the other way,” he advised them, noting that empaths, like white liberals, “like making other peoples’ suffering about [themselves].”
The Old Dads actor also joked about Biden’s alleged dementia, which the collegiate hipsters found hilarious.
Biden’s cognitive decline was on clear display on Monday, when he appeared to suffer a glitch during the White House’s Juneteenth celebration.
The 81-year-old commander-in-chief was caught on camera seeming to be totally frozen as the people around him, including Vice President Kamala Harris, danced and clapped along to gospel singer Kirk Franklin’s performance.
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“Lights are on but no one’s home,” former President Donald Trump’s campaign tweeted in response to the video.
Meanwhile, Burr also took shots at “tech bros” during his Saturday show. “I hate the term ‘tech bro.’ They aren’t bros. They’re nerds, and they are way more dangerous,” he joked.
He said that only “socially inept” nerds would want to replace the nation’s workforce with AI.
Burr also taunted a front-row heckler in a Lakers jersey, which sparked laughter from the Warriors-supporting students.
“Oh, the Celtics suck, do they?” referencing the team leading the NBA Finals 2-0.
The show wasn’t the first time the comedian went after liberals. In December, he roasted late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and fellow left-wingers by predicting Trump’s Republican nomination win, which he put on liberals for indicting him.
Burr argued, “If you want to see a great case on narcissism … liberals are so f***ing stupid, the way that they handled Trump.”
“Now, he’s a martyr! He’s coming back, Jimmy! He’s comin’ back! It’s gonna be great for comedy!” He noted.
Burr clarified that he wasn’t supporting either Biden or Trump, joking, “With any luck, they’ll both die of natural causes before the election, and maybe you could get somebody that still has something to live for.”
Fellow comedian Bill Maher, said he refuses to perform at college campuses, specifically UC Berkeley, citing a lack of open-mindedness among younger audiences.
On Club Random this week, Bill Maher and Ray Romano discussed how college students don’t want to hear any opinions that go against their worldview.
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During a discussion with comedian Ray Romano, on a recent episode of his podcast Club Random, Maher said, “They don’t want to hear anything they don’t already agree with.”
“They don’t want their minds pried open, and you know what? Let somebody else do it,” the 68-year-old cantankerously added.
Romano seemed to agree that Maher, a liberal who often criticizes the actions and ideals of fellow liberals, is too divisive for younger crowds.
“First of all, they would protest before I even got on the campus,” Maher said in reference to a 2014 incident, when a student group at UC Berkeley tried to revoke his invitation to speak at the school.
“I was uninvited when I was invited to be the keynote speaker at the Berkeley graduation and then re-invited, but today, are you kidding?” he remarked.
“These kids? ‘That would be the first thing they would do. They don’t want to hear anything they don’t already agree with.”
Maher criticized young audiences for dismissing his talking points due to his age. “I’m not going to hold my tongue when they embrace stupid ideas,” he told Romano.
“And of course, then they’ll just say the tritest, easiest, most erroneous thing lobbed at people like us is: ‘you’re old, now it’s about just get off my lawn.'”
Maher also challenged their unwillingness to engage with his ideas, saying, “You put zero amount of thinking into the actual point I’m making.”
“What about the idea? Am I right? Should we bring communism back because I think it’s a bad idea?” he questioned.
“Maybe because I remember what happened the first time and you don’t, and you don’t care to learn.”