RIP Apollo Creed

[BTExpress]

That's what he gets for not dropping him in three.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Burr is usually a funny dude, but he's been telling this joke for 20 years and it's still clear that he's never spent any appreciable amount of time in Philadelphia. His knowledge of the city and its inhabitants is as deep as a puddle.

 

[Octave]

low-lying fruit, maybe try an original bit.

I'll guess that his backup joke is airplane food sucks.

 

[garrow]

Carl Weathers deserves better than this Stallone thread-jack.

Here's an interview he did from 1979. Very charismatic and thoughtful. RIP.

 

[justgladtobehere]

low-lying fruit, maybe try an original bit.

I'll guess that his backup joke is airplane food sucks.

It was 20 years ago, but he hasn't been doing it since then. It was completely off the cuff and goes on for 12 minutes in front of an angry, uninterested crowd. Never gets old.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Honestly, that Bill Burr clip is hysterical. It had been an all-day, outdoor comedy festival near Philadelphia, and it had some pretty big name comedians for the time. The crowd was getting drunker and drunker and more and more beligerent as the day went on. They were booing the comedians, and several of the comedians just gave up and put the microphone down and walked off the stage before their time was up.

That was what Burr walked out to. He started to do his act, and they started booing and he just said fork it and started to go off on them. The jokes aren't all that deep, but I am amazed that someone can go off the cuff like that for 15 minutes straight without prepared material and be that good. He kept telling them that he was going to do every second of the time he was given and they could all suck a bag of dicks. It was funny.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Carl Weathers deserves better than this Stallone thread-jack.

One could say he even deserves to have his real name in an RIP thread title, but here we are.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Burr had them cheering by the end

 

[DanOregon]

I don't know how it happened that he was cast in Happy Gilmore, but whomever thought it up was genius.

And now we have the answer.....

How 'Happy Gilmore' Landed Carl Weathers by Accident | Cracked.com

 

[MisterCreosote]

Burr had them cheering by the end

I mean, it's fine as a generic roast.

But he loses the thread early on, not even getting into the Rocky stuff, when he starts talking about Philly only having one bridge. It has four major bridges — five if you count the Commodore Barry, which is 10 or so miles south of the city proper.

 

[Octave]

Philadelphia's sore ass dates to an 8-month occupancy during the Revolution and now it appears in a Carl Weathers RIP thread. This site continues to be a marvel.

 

[Hermes]

I mean, it's fine as a generic roast.

But he loses the thread early on, not even getting into the Rocky stuff, when he starts talking about Philly only having one bridge. It has four major bridges — five if you count the Commodore Barry, which is 10 or so miles south of the city proper.

I…think you're overthinking this.