Bill Burr opened last night’s Saturday Night Live with a monologue about which only one thing can be said: a man spoke for seven minutes into a microphone. Topics ranged from anti-maskers (“Doesn’t bug me, take out your grandparentsâ€) to Times Square (“Get the peep shows backâ€) to Pride Month (“A little long, don’t you think?â€). Coherence was not a strict priority for Burr, who also touched on race relations and cancel culture (of course) to generally mixed results and groans from the audience, though he may have a point about John Wayne (“He was born in 1907â€). As a viewing experience, the monologue was made all the more painful by the expressionless faces of the SNL house band, who usually serve as helpful barometers of a monologue’s success but whose masks betrayed no emotion here.
Bill Burr Plows Ahead in His SNL Monologue
