Bill Burr

Bill Burr was born on June 10, 1968, in Canton, Massachusetts, to a dentist father for whom he briefly worked as a dental hygienist. An Irish American, he grew up outside Boston, performed his first stand-up set at age 23 on March 2, 1992, and moved to New York City in 1994 (later to Los Angeles in 1995 and back to New York in 1999). He gained early notoriety with a recurring role on Chappelle's Show in 2004, appearances on Comedy Central Presents (2003), Just for Laughs (2004), and Late Show with David Letterman, and early TV roles in Townies (1996) and Two Guys and a Girl (1998). Burr's stand-up career exploded with his first hour-long special Why Do I Do This? on Comedy Central in 2008, followed by albums like Emotionally Unavailable and tours such as The Uninformed Comedy Tour (2009). He voiced Jason Michaels in Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) and its expansion, and built a massive podcast audience with Monday Morning Podcast starting in 2007, co-founding the All Things Comedy network in 2012. Film roles included Date Night (2010), Stand Up Guys (2012), The Heat (2013), Daddy's Home (2015), and The Front Runner (2018); TV highlights featured Patrick Kuby in Breaking Bad (2008–2012). In the 2010s–2020s, Burr created and starred in the Netflix animated series F Is for Family (2015–2021), released specials like You People Are All the Same (2012), I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (2014), Walk Your Way Out (2017), Paper Tiger (2019), and Live at Red Rocks (July 12, 2024), and earned a Grammy nomination for Paper Tiger and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Immoral Compass (2021–present). He directed, co-wrote, and starred in Old Dads (2023), hosted Saturday Night Live, and played roles like Migs Mayfeld in The Mandalorian and Coach Bobson in Reservation Dogs. Burr made history as the first comedian to perform at Fenway Park (2022) and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus (2023), was ranked 17th on Rolling Stone's '50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time' (2017), and became a licensed helicopter pilot in 2015. Personally, he married Nia Hill in 2012; they have a daughter, Lola, born January 20, 2017; his brother Robert is a selectman who briefly ran for U.S. Senate in 2009.