It’s been three years since Bill Burr’s last major comedy special, Live at Red Rocks for Netflix, but for his follow-up, Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years, the stand-up great is switching up both the setting — instead of that alfresco Colorado amphitheater, the new special was taped before a live audience at the Moore Theatre in Seattle, Washington in June 2024 — and streaming platform. Drop Dead Years premieres on Hulu on Friday, March 14 as part of the streamer’s Laughing Now comedy stand-up brand, which kicked off with Jim Gaffigan’s The Skinny special last fall.
Directed by Ben Tishler — also the filmmaker and co-writer behind Burr’s upcoming blues-musician drama Hate to See You Go, costarring Morgan Freeman, Common and Alfre Woodard — Burr’s new hourlong set feature all of the signature satire and snark that longtime fans have come to expect from the ever-contrarian American comedian. But Drop Dead Years also sees Burr at his most sincere and introspective, candidly and hilariously discussing everything from male sadness to dating hijinks to the trials and tribulations of growing older. (“I’m 56 years old, which is too young to die of natural causes but it’s not too young to drop dead,” Burr joked of the special’s title during a January 2025 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.)
