The throne has had several Kings. All fleeting but nonetheless, they reigned. Pryor, Murphy, Carlin, Rock, Chappelle, now Burr.

Rock peaked 15 years ago - and his recent gigs in the UK tell me he's now well past that prime.

Chappelle peaked about 5 years ago - and has been trading very successfully on it since,right up until he decided to get into a pissing contest with the wokes.

Burr has never reached the heights those others did. He's more your Carlin. He's saying it and not giving a damn. He's right and he's pointing at both sides and showing them they're both stupid. He's the quiet hero.

And by virtue of the other big names all deciding to dumb it down or retread old ground so as not to cause trouble or stand up to the wokes and risk losing, he's the last big-name real comic left. He doesn't care what you think and he's brave enough to say it, knowing that you only get cancelled if they think you fear them.

The first 30 minutes of this special are excellent. Deftly destroying both sides of the pandemic thinking. In front of a bunch of Colorado folk, he's got stones on him - or he realises that a significant portion of the audience are too thick to notice the intracies of what he's saying.

There's a lull then where it doesn't hit as hard and maybe the edit is unkind to him. Then he finishes with a fairly strong flourish.

Given this is the only comedy that isn't designed to use buzzwords to court controversy that I've seen in a few years now, let's acknowledge that he is one of the very few still delivering at a time where everyone feels they're above ridicule.


8/10