Bill Burr recalls how shaving his head bald jump-started his standup career, denounces Gina Carano's "f*cking bizarre" firing from The Mandalorian

The Hollywood Reporter

In a wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Burr says his career hit a standstill when he was 37. So he decided to make two key changes: 1) Stop working clean and 2) Shave his head. “There’s a pressure: Hollywood likes hair, so you’ve got to look this way or that way,” he says. “That’s when I said, ‘You know what? F*ck all of this. If I’m going, I’m going to go down swinging, and I might as well swing the way I want to.'" He adds: “I buzzed my head and I looked like the a**hole that I was. That’s when I became OK with me. All of a sudden, I started getting cooler opportunities.” Meanwhile, Burr was asked if Carano's firing from The Mandalorian for promoting Donald Trump's debunked 2020 election fraud claims and seemingly mocked transgender pronouns was fair. “No,” he says. “I thought it was funny that the liberals proved her point. They just use outrage because they don’t like your politics. As someone who considers himself liberal, it’s disappointing to see the left become how the right used to be when they went after the Dixie Chicks after they criticized George W. Bush. There’s not a lot of people like that — most are just trying not to get in trouble — but there’s this small collection of lunatics — either on the right or the left, at any given moment – that cause hysteria. And now there’s so many (media outlets) that want eyeballs, they make money off advertising, that they give attention to these crazy fringe people." Burr adds: "The whole thing with Gina: You can’t chime in when the shit’s happening, because then you cause static for other people on the (show). That somebody’s opinion — or their political beliefs — makes people try to destroy their ability to make a living, it’s f*cking bizarre to me.”