Bill Burr caused quite the stir with his first-ever Saturday Night Live appearance this past weekend. The standup comedian's controversial hot takes regarding white feminism, cancel culture and Pride Month, shared during his opening monologue as SNL host on Saturday, drew mixed reactions from viewers online.
The monologue started out wholesome, with Burr thanking the audience for coming out "during these difficult times" of coronavirus and honoring NBC's pandemic prevention guidelines. ("You guys all look like surgeons with your masks on," he teased.) Then, he veered off into his candid yet harsh Burr-isms on topics like New York getting its edge back, thanks to some man randomly sucker-punching Rick Moranis on the Upper West Side, and also the way in which white women have "hijacked the woke movement."
Fellow white women - if you are responding to Black men or Black women about Bill Burr and joining white women to complain about misogyny - congrats! You’re doing what Bill Burr said you would. High jacked the message and avoided being called out for upholding white supremacy.
— MoisurizedHelenaForMVPHarris (@rudesttooter) October 12, 2020
Bill Burr is trash and has always been trash. Not because he doesn’t raise valid criticisms in some of his comedy, but because he has always leveraged his ability to point them out to the detriment of change and the benefit of himself, and he can fuck off into the sun for it.
— feminist next door (@emrazz) October 11, 2020
While some viewers were left completely offended by Burr's words, others thought the F is for Family creator was spot-on with many of his opinions. You can read them all, along with his entire SNL monologue, below.
"Thank you so much. Thank you. I am so excited to be here. I have been doing standup forever, and this has always been a lifelong dream of mine, to come here and host Saturday Night Live. So thank you so much coming out during these difficult times. You guys all look like surgeons with your masks on. Makes me feel comfortable that you're wearing masks. I like people who wear masks. That's good. You're listening to the eggheads. The people we all cheated off of in high school, right? Keep listening to 'em.
And then, if you don't wear a mask, that doesn't bug me either, right? Take out your grandparents, you know? Take out your weak cousin with the asthma. I don't care. It's your decision. There's too many people. It's a dream come true. If you're that dumb and you want to kill your own family members, by all means, do it. Stops you from reproducing. It's literally a dream come true.
And speaking of dreams come true: Did you see Rick Moranis got sucker-punched on the Upper West Side? New York is back, baby! New York is back! Yes! We lost our edge there for a minute. City started looking like a giant Bed, Bath & Beyond and then, bam! Old Ricky took one in the chops. It had to happen. That's what happens when you stick an M&Ms store in Times Square, all right? The universe has to balance itself. Get the peep shows back in Times Square. Old people can walk safely 40 blocks away.
I don't know. I'll probably get "canceled" for doing that joke. You know, how stupid is that "canceled" thing? They're literally running out of people to cancel. They're going after dead people now. They're trying to cancel John Wayne. It's like, "Yeah, dude, God did that 40 years ago." They're all up in arms. They're like, "Did you hear what he said in that interview in Playboy in 1970? Can you believe that?" It's like, yeah, he was born in 1907. That's what these people sounded like. You never talked to your grandparents and brought up the wrong subject? And all of a sudden they went off the rails? Like, "Oh, wow, Grandma. Just keep making the cookies!" You don't bring up race or religion with your grandparents. You keep it simple. Anyway, I don't know. I guess my grandparents are older. I don't know.
Plowing ahead. Plowing ahead, let's talk. Let's talk white women here, shall we? Let's talk white women—you're amazing. Amazing, your accomplishments over the last few years. I gotta tell you, the way white women somehow hijacked the woke movement, generals around the world should be analyzing this.
Just to refresh your memory: The woke movement was supposed to be about people of color—not getting opportunities, the at-bats that they deserve—finally making that happen. And it was about that, for about eight seconds. And then somehow, white women swung their Gucci-booted feet over the fence of oppression and stuck themselves at the front of the line. I don't know how they did it.
I've never heard so much complaining in my life from white women. "I'm hurt, with my SUV and my heated seats. You have no idea what it's like to be me." Trashing white guys. The nerve. Where's the camera? The nerve of you white women. Listen, I don't want to speak ill of my b***hes here, OK? I don't. But let's go back in history here, OK? You guys stood by us toxic white males through centuries of our crimes against humanity. You rolled around in the blood money. And, occasionally, when you wanted to sneak off and hook up with a Black dude, if you got caught, you said it wasn't consensual. Yeah, that's what you did! That's what you did! So why don't you shut up, sit down next to me and take your talking-to? Thank you.
So, I haven't been in New York for about a year, you know? I was here last year, I was shooting a movie. Had a great time with Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and all the guys. Yeah. Had a great time. And I hadn't been here in, like, 13 years. And I immediately noticed how extra-crowded the city was. I was getting all claustrophobic. I'm like, "What's going on? How much, people not using safe sex and making all these babies," you know?
So I finally walked up to this old New York door guy and I was just like, "Dude, what's going on? What's with all these people here?" And he was just like, "Oh no, no, no, don't worry. It's June." He goes, "It's Pride Month." And I'm like, "What's that?" You know, I'm 52. I never heard of it. Didn't have that when I was a kid. He goes, "Oh, it's Gay Pride Month." And I was just like, "Ohhhhh!"
Dude, you know when you're just like stuck in the matrix and you just can't—everything's just pressed up? You can't see anything, and then somebody gives you that little nugget of information that just pulls it back? "Why's it so crowded?" "It's Gay Pride Month." Oh! Tank tops! Zero-percent body fat! Two guys kissing! Rainbow flags! Aahhh! I didn't know that. That's what I learned.
The month of June is Gay Pride Month. That's a little long, don't you think? For a group of people that were never enslaved? How did they get all of June? Dude, Black people were actually enslaved. They get February. They get 28 days of overcast weather. Sun goes down at 4 in the afternoon. Everybody's shivering. Nobody wants to go on the parade. Look, how about you hook 'em up with July? These are equator people. Give them the sun for 31 days. There's gay Black people, they could celebrate from June 1, June 31, 61 days to celebrate.
Alright, that's all my time. We got a great show for you guys, everybody. Jack White is here. It's gonna be amazing! Please stick around. We'll be right back."
