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The Bill Burr subreddit. “My entire goal was to humanize Patrice,” Decarlo says. Although his family attempted to keep O’Neal failing health a secret, a week later Jim Norton came on O & A and broke the news to the world that Patrice was in the hospital and things did not look good. Sort by. share. On Feb. 19, at 10 p.m. He was one of the great friends that I’ve had in life.”, He still takes O’Neal’s mother to lunch when he’s performing near her home in Virginia. On the morning of October 19, 2011, O'Neal phoned his girlfriend to tell her he couldn't move his legs. That’s not what you get that gun for. As most of u may know, I am & always have been the admin of this page 4 Patrice. Reply. Tags: late night, Seth Meyers, Bill Burr, Tom Brady, Deflategate, super bowl, The Mandalorian, patrice o'neal: killing is easy S8 E65 8 min Interview Talk and Interview Late Night 2020-2021 Email James Sullivan at jamesgsullivan@gmail.com. That’s where the fun is. O'Neal began his comedy career in Boston, Massachusetts where he had lived from the age of one. Quinn made plenty of room for the 6-foot-6-inch, 300-pound O’Neal, From early on in his career, O’Neal was more a truth-sayer and taboo philosopher than a run-of-the-mill joke peddler. While Patrice was alive they lived to rib each other and just tear each other down for entertainment. Follow him on Twitter @sullivanjames. Maureen Taran produce a comedy benefit in his honor. He lost his ability to speak, and later his ability to move, for a time communicating by eye movements before losing that ability as well. The Patrice O’Neal documentary is executive produced by Bill Burr, Al Madrigal and Michael Bertolina of All Things Comedy, Von Decarlo and Michael Bonfiglio who also serves as director (May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers, Doc & Darryl, an ESPN 30 for 30 film). Log in or sign up to leave a comment Log In Sign Up. “She’s funny like Patrice,” he says. https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/2018-2019/patrice-oneal-benefit 27 comments. While his friend was still alive, that is. They’re so fucking sensitive. But when I go to Oklahoma, I make fun of gun owners and their AR-15s“What do you do with it?” wondered Burr on his podcast about the semi-automatic rifle. ... Patrice O’Neal and Bob Kelly in studio, analyzing and discussing the infamous incident with Kanye. “That’s one of my favorite things about the film,” she says. “It was a really emotional thing, because that’s where he should have been,” Burr says. “That guy went through a lot of stuff. The family and friends of Patrice O'Neal, including Bill Burr, Colin Quinn, Kevin Hart, Jim Norton and more, look back on the late comic's promising but sometimes fraught career. Patrice O'Neal died aged 41 following a stroke. Bill Burr and Patrice O’Neal. R.i.p Patrice!!! Bill Burr is credited as an executive producer. ET, Comedy Central, in collaboration with All Things Comedy, will premiere the new documentary Patrice O’Neal: Killing Is Easy which showcases the comedian’s life and his groundbreaking comedy. This dead bitch is holdin up my dinner! Being as smart as he was, he had to deal with a lot of people who weren’t one-tenth of who he was as a person, but had the right skin color and the right office.”. Legendary comedian Patrice O’Neal is deservedly getting his own documentary about his life. “They’re just sort of talking about each other, about what assholes they are,” said Burr of the candidates. O’Neal didn’t just want easy laughs — in the language of comedians, “killing” the audience — says Denis O’Leary in the documentary: “He wanted the truth.”, “He drove people nuts,” says Burr, “but he was so [expletive] funny.”. hide. RIP Patrice O'Neal. “But if you just look at his material on the surface,” she says, “you miss the depth of the love and pain where it came from.”. O’Neal made a habit of pushing the boundaries of propriety, as Colin Quinn says in the film. Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy Documentary. The World Premiere of Patrice O’Neal: Killing Is Easy debuts on Friday, February 19 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central. I don’t mean trying to piss people off so much that they leave the show, but just trying to bug ‘em. The Patrice O’Neal documentary will be produced by All Things Comedy, the studio and content house created by comedians Bill Burr and Al Madrigal for Comedy Central. Patrice O’Neal: Killing is Easy is told through the eyes of the people who knew him best including Bill Burr, Kevin Hart and Colin Quinn who reflect on this true original, a man who never achieved the success that many believed he was due and whose untimely death at the age of 41 left many wondering what could have been. level 1. When the billboard went up, O’Neal’s close friend Bill Burr, who lives in Southern California, went down to Sunset to take a picture of it. on the set of his short-lived but brilliant Comedy Central series “Tough Crowd”. 1.5K likes. I’ve heard so many stories about Patrice on podcasts from his comedian friends over the years and I was very excited when they announced that this documentary was being made. He's one of the funniest comedians genius n hilarious. Quinn made plenty of room for the 6-foot-6-inch, 300-pound O’Neal on the set of his short-lived but brilliant Comedy Central series “Tough Crowd” (2002-2004), in which a panel of comedians jousted over various issues and current events. RIP Patrice O'Neal. 1 min read. best. It’s so easy. Bill Burr … Bill Burr. When O’Neal began performing in the Boston clubs in the early 1990s, he struck up a friendship with Burr. Doctors advised that if he survived, he would likely remain permanently paralyzed an… 16 Nov. Jim Norton changes Patrice Oneal's opinion of Face/Off. And that’s what he was doing [at the time of his death].”, As much as “Elephant in the Room” — O’Neal’s lone hour-long comedy special, which debuted in early 2011 — demonstrated his potential, Burr says, “he still had so much more in the tank.”. With Kevin Hart, Denis Leary, Bill Burr, Louis C.K.. That’s why feminists are some of my favorite people to do comedy in front of. Patrice O'Neal – Kanye West vs. Taylor Swift (w/Video of Interviews). The documentary, directed by Michael Bonfiglio (who also directed Gary Gulman’s “The Great Depresh”), makes clear that O’Neal’s refusal to play the Hollywood games may have kept his career from the heights his talent deserved. O’Neal had grown up confronted with racism; the infamous Charles Stuart case of 1989, in which a husband murdered his pregnant wife, then tried to blame it on a non-existent Black assailant, weighed heavily on him. 248 votes, 22 comments. Obviously I’m a woman, so I got there before him,” she adds with a laugh. From the late ’90s/early ’00s. Explaining how he first felt about Decarlo’s daughter from a previous relationship, he joked that he wanted nothing to do with the product of another man who’d slept with his girlfriend. © Provided by The Boston Globe "Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy," premiering on Comedy Central, aims to show the comedian in all his complexity. 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