“I’ll just say this — he was 100 percent wrong,” Burr said. “He did own up to it. And I think he will definitely be back. I will say that. And I also knew a couple of the women that he did this . . . to, and I just feel bad for everybody. It’s just [expletive] terrible. . . . I feel like I’m in a divorce — where you know both the mom and the dad . . . and you’ve got to like pick a [expletive] side here.”

Burr didn’t exactly defend his friend on the podcast, but he did say that Louis C.K. will have a comeback.

Canton-bred comedian Bill Burr is being criticized for comments he made on his podcast about Louis C.K. , who’s admitted to sexual misconduct allegations reported by the New York Times .


Burr did defend his manager, Dave Becky, who had managed Louis C.K. until he dropped him as a client last week. Pamela Adlon, star of the FX series “Better Things,” which she co-created with Louis C.K., dropped Becky as her manager Friday, according to Deadline.

In the podcast, Burr called the stories about Becky a “witch hunt.”

Burr said: “. . . The level of witch hunt that happened when the Louis thing came out, like the amount of [expletive] people that they went after was just . . . it was, like, six degrees of Louis’s [penis]. To the point that even the . . . Huffington Post was trying to, like, list people . . . clients of the same manager . . . who, by the way, is one of the great people I’ve ever met in life. I stand by my [expletive] manager.”

The Huffington Post had tried to contact Becky’s clients because the Times story alleged that Becky threatened two of the women who shared their story about Louis C.K. Becky released a statement Monday saying that he did not know the specifics of the allegations, and that he “was operating blindly from a one-sided place of privilege.”


Burr went on to say that he could tell his own “sexual misconduct” stories involving women, adding, with laughter, “. . . It was never any of the young ones. It was always these middle-aged [expletive] women, couple glasses of red wine, oh God, and they’d come at you with their va-va-va-voom energy. . .”

Family Crisis Center in Bastrop, Texas tweeted to Burr, “Insulting women is not the way to defend your friend, @billburr You show a complete lack of understanding and more than a little misogyny.”