Check out comic Bill Burr’s show this weekend at the Mirage

Those guys from the Boston comedy scene sure make the rest of us look lazy.

People wonder how Louis C.K. gets so much done. But Bill Burr, fellow redhead of the same age and region (Burr just turned 48), is no slacker, either.

Along with his dependable “Monday Morning Podcast” and prolific stand-up, Burr has a six-episode animated series called “F is for Family” coming up on Netflix. Laura Dern will voice his wife and Justin Long his son in the ’70s-set comedy based on Burr’s childhood.

When he was last at The Mirage, this same weekend last summer, Burr explained the division of labor on his comic ideas. What makes the cut for a stand-up special (the last was “I’m Sorry You Feel That Way”) and what stays in the podcast (a recent one described as, “Bill rambles about cursing in Russian, Donald Trump and video doorbells”)?

“You kinda gotta separate the (stage) material from just hanging out, shootin’-the-(s—-) funny,” he says. “You can’t act like what you just said was the last funny thing you’re ever gonna say.”

“You can get into this hoarding mentality. Especially early on when you’re trying to build up an act,” he added. “Everything that has potential you want to bring to stage.

But it’s no mystery how Burr got to be at the top of the stand-up game. First, he’s done it so long that everything he says onstage has insight behind it, making us look at ordinary life from new angles.

Second?

“I worked hard,” he said, and “eventually 40 people became 50, and 50 became 60. That’s just how my career went.”

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