Bill Burr Shared His Take on Elon Musk and "Unhappy" Billionaires on The Tonight Show
The comedian vented about the billionaire head of DOGE and talked his Broadway debut in Glengarry Glen Ross.
As a stand-up comedian and host of Monday Morning Podcast, Bill Burr is known for speaking his mind — and he did exactly that during his March 18 visit to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Burr, who makes his Broadway debut in Glengarry Glen Ross in March 2025, is also back on the stand-up circuit, and explained to Jimmy Fallon the meaning of his latest comedy special's title, Drop Dead Years.
"It's the years that I'm in right now. I'm 56, soon to be 57 — so, you know, this is too young to die of natural causes, but it's not too young to just drop dead," Burr joked before elaborating a bit more.
"That's so positive," Fallon laughed sarcastically.
"Well, it's a positive time, Jimmy," Burr shot back.
Bill Burr asks why Elon Musk dresses "like he just got out of a Hot Topic"
"Billionaires are not happy having a billion dollars," Burr opined. "Why does Elon Musk dress like he just got out of a Hot Topic?"
"I am so sick of that guy trying to rewrite his origin story, like he was Matthew McConaughey pulling into the high school. You were a nerd," Burr continued. "And now you have hair plugs and your laminated face," he said, referring to photographs of Musk from 20 years ago compared to now.
"And everybody is afraid of these nerds. I don't get it. My whole life, feminists were focusing on frat boys and guys with their hats on backwards, and they left the nerds alone. And now look at them!" Burr held forth on the topic for several minutes, and wondered why questioning the increasing political power of American billionaires like Musk gets such pushback.
"None of it makes sense. And then they try to politicize everything you say — and it's just like, 'I don't know. Shouldn't you pay your workers?'" Burr said, as the Tonight Show audience burst into applause.
"Don't you remember that when we were growing up? One week's pay paid your rent. You had a little cottage, little boat, you know? Maybe a second family down the road," Burr joked. "That's what you did! You had the money."
"See, the first part, I was being nice, talking about Glengarry and now I'm being me," Burr said. Watch Bill Burr's entire Tonight Show interview above.
Bill Burr makes his Broadway debut in Glengarry Glen Ross
Burr is also an actor, and he's just stepped onto the Broadway stage: He co-stars in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross with Bob Odenkirk, newly-minted Academy Award winner Kieran Culkin, and Michael McKean.
"'I'm finding, the crowds are really nice," Burr told Fallon. "I came up in the stand-up world, so to be in front of a crowd that's, like, smart, wants to be there, is listening... " he joked (though he did tell Fallon about one particularly feisty audience member).
Burr said the hardest part of the gig is being away from his family, wife Nia Renee Hill and their two children.
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"They come one week a month," Burr told Fallon. "So I've been doing the FaceTime. It works with my daughter, she's only 8. But my son's like 4 and a half, so he's not good at FaceTime. So when he picks up the phone, I just see like an eyeball, and he's like, 'Dad, when are you coming home?!' and then he just walks away."
In something of a coincidence, all four of the play's stars have connections to Saturday Night Live: Burr hosted for his second time in Season 50, Culkin hosted in 2021, Odenkirk was a writer on the show from 1987-1991, and McKean was a Season 20 cast member.
Glengarry Glen Ross is currently in previews and officially opens on March 31, 2025 until June 28, 2025. You can buy tickets here.
