Invoice Burr is fired up.
The comic and actor, 56, blasted insurance coverage corporations and praised accused UnitedHealthcare CEO-shooter Luigi Mangione whereas talking in regards to the LA fires throughout his Tuesday look on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Burr revealed that, like many individuals in Los Angeles, he needed to evacuate after flames threatened his residence.
“I got lucky,” he mentioned. “You know, the winds moved.”
“And I think everybody did a great job. Unlike the internet,” he added, alluding to the rapacious criticism of state and native officers’ response to the fires.
Burr went on to mock on-line critics who liken themselves to “fire experts” and bemoan how the hearth was “mismanaged.”
“Mismanaged? Like some idiot on the internet knows how to manage the worst fire in LA? Sitting there in his underwear?” he continued.
Turning to hypothesis about what brought about the numerous fires that tore by way of Southern California, Burr mentioned, “I love how all the chatter out there is about bans on illegal immigrants and homeless people lighting fires.”
“They light fires every day,” he added. “They’re living outside, it’s f—ing cold.”
From Burr’s perspective, the media has its eye on the mistaken matter and goal.
“You know, and then they’re talking about looting. But CNN and Fox News are not going to bring up the insurance companies that are just gonna keep everybody’s premiums and still give themselves a bonus,” he mentioned to applause from the viewers.
“Yes! Free Luigi!” he exclaimed over the clapping, referencing Luigi Mangione, 26, who’s accused of capturing and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Mangione has pleaded not responsible.)
Drawing laughter from Kimmel and the group, Burr caught to speaking about Mangione.
“I love how they acted surprised, ‘How could that happen?’” he mentioned, imitating media pundits (and certain insurance coverage firm executives).
“[The killer] wrote on the bullets why it happened,” Burr added. In response to regulation enforcement, the bullets fired at Thompson have been inscribed with the phrases “deny,” “defend” and “depose,” allegedly referencing the guide of the identical title about “Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.”
A jovial Kimmel responded, “We’re still on Luigi?”
“I never left Luigi!” Burr replied.
The “Old Dads” star has been vocal about Mangione earlier than.
“The funny thing when that CEO got whacked was watching CEOs have to be uncomfortable,” Burr mentioned in an interview with Selection revealed Tuesday.
“I’m sure they didn’t learn anything, but it’s like: This is how you make everybody feel day to day as you apply pressure because ‘that’s how business is done,’” he additionally instructed the location. “How you leave this burning wreckage of destroyed lives as you ‘restructure’ and ‘consolidate.’ It was fun to see them worry.”
Burr additionally criticized the media’s protection of Thompson’s homicide final month on an episode of his “Anything Better?” podcast.
“They’re gangsters dude, f—ing gangsters, and then when one of them gets whacked or something they’re like, ‘Oh my god he was such a good guy,’” he mentioned of CEOs within the healthcare trade, which he labeled “dirty game.”
Burr’s rage over residence insurance coverage corporations follows current experiences that 1000’s of LA householders have been dropped by their insurance coverage corporations within the days earlier than the Palisades and Eaton fires broke out. In the meantime, US insurers raked in document income in 2023 — $87.6 billion from their property and casualty enterprise alone — based on the Nationwide Affiliation of Insurance coverage Commissioners, as reported by The Guardian.
