Sep 22, 2026 · 56 min · 20 segments
On a new episode of *The Rolling Stone Interview,* senior editor and film critic David Fear talks to *The Social Reckoning* actor Bill Burr. A record-breaking stand-up comic from Boston who initially…
Bill BurrGuest
David FearHost
Why are you laughing? You're acting like I'm thinking of somebody specifically here.
So the stuff that the social reckoning is getting into, right, is stuff that you've kind of been talking about in your act for like the last few years, the idea of like, you know, the lack of accountability, the way the media works or it doesn't work, that, you know, the way that tech is kind of taking control of our lives and stuff.
Did this seem like just a natural extension of what you've been talking about on stage when you kind of locked into this? Was this stuff that you and Aaron Sorkin
I mean, if you look at all of this stuff, like the response to the Luigi thing was not to be like, well, hey, maybe we need to look at what we're doing if what we're doing makes some crazy person do this.
Why do you need this level of security? Like, what is it that you're doing? And, you know, like journalism was all bought up.
I don't feel really in the mainstream like that hard hitting all the president's men stuff.
So now I just feel like they, you know, you got these talking heads on 24 hour news networks and they're just designed to make us hate each other.
Why are you laughing? You're acting like I'm thinking of somebody specifically here.
So the stuff that the social reckoning is getting into, right, is stuff that you've kind of been talking about in your act for like the last few years, the idea of like, you know, the lack of accountability, the way the media works or it doesn't work, that, you know, the way that tech is kind of taking control of our lives and stuff.
Did this seem like just a natural extension of what you've been talking about on stage when you kind of locked into this? Was this stuff that you and Aaron Sorkin
I mean, if you look at all of this stuff, like the response to the Luigi thing was not to be like, well, hey, maybe we need to look at what we're doing if what we're doing makes some crazy person do this.
Why do you need this level of security? Like, what is it that you're doing? And, you know, like journalism was all bought up.
I don't feel really in the mainstream like that hard hitting all the president's men stuff.
So now I just feel like they, you know, you got these talking heads on 24 hour news networks and they're just designed to make us hate each other.
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