On the modern day list of the world’s best comedians, Bill Burr has to be somewhere near the top.
His angry antics and brutally-honest commentary have made for quite the successful career, and if he ever wanted to hang it up with stand-up comedy, it looks like fans would love for him to try out broadcasting.
Burr joined in on the Boston Red Sox broadcast as they take on the Minnesota Twins, and the reviews so far have been extremely positive. NESN’s Twitter account posted a video earlier of Bill entering into the booth, with him excitingly saying in his Boston accent:
“Let’s do it. I’m keeping score.”
The one and only @billburr joins us in the booth today! pic.twitter.com/ApqDrOq6gu
— NESN (@NESN) June 21, 2023
Bill Burr is currently touring the country on a stand-up comedy tour, and apparently worked this stop to help call the baseball game into his schedule. He might seem like a pretty busy guy, but he said during the broadcast that he “had nothing else better to do.”
He also hinted that his wife was happy to get him out of the house in the clip below:
When @billburr joins the crew for a day 😂 pic.twitter.com/e5kE5hESSf
— NESN (@NESN) June 21, 2023
One of the clips from early on had Burr poking fun at the “analytics” part of baseball that has increased in popularity over the past decade or so, with him asking a statistical question then saying:
“There’s gotta be some nerd here with a laptop that could give us an answer.”
Bill Burr is gold in the booth pic.twitter.com/9bYTgQ6Gmk
— The Pesky Report (39-35) (@PeskyReport) June 22, 2023
And he also voiced his concern about the Yankees still showing clips from when they beat the Red Sox in 2004, even though the Boston team pulled off a historic comeback in the world series, coming back from a 3 to 1 deficit:
Bill Burr saying what we say every time the Sox are on National TV pic.twitter.com/fgWZClD6qi
— The Pesky Report (39-35) (@PeskyReport) June 22, 2023
The Boston Red Sox might be onto something here.
Baseball is struggling with ratings and getting younger demographics to watch? Just put a comedian or a celebrity in the booth for the whole game and watch the viewership numbers soar.
Twitter users (both Red Sox fans and casual sports fan alike) are loving the fact that Bill Burr is the third man in the broadcast booth, and they are hoping that the comedian stopping by becomes a more regular thing:
Bill Burr needs to become a fixture on these #RedSox broadcasts
— Joe Braverman (@JoeBravermanPBP) June 22, 2023
JT just a bomb to re-tie the game.
"An old redhead!" Bill Burr says. "I'm going to call the Red Sox and see if I can get a contract!" https://t.co/Qm1aEuWeMf
— Gabrielle Starr (@gfstarr1) June 22, 2023
Bill Burr is calling the Red Sox game on NESN right now. This is amazing.
— Ryan Novozinsky (@ryannovo62) June 21, 2023
https://twitter.com/FrostedBlakes34/status/1671675022614712320?s=20
Bill Burr calling the Red Sox game is like a dream come true. Already dying laughing 🤣
— Sammy James🔺 (@HebHammer94) June 21, 2023
The Red Sox broadcast was trying to get Bill Burr to shut up real quick when he started asking what Devers was chewing on 😂
— Randi (@randi9320) June 21, 2023
