A little shy of two weeks before an unprecedented 19-show run at the Wilbur Theatre, Bill Burr is feeling nostalgic. He has been playing the big rooms for a while now — when he performs in Boston, he’s a regular at the 1,200-seat theater. But the Canton native remembers much smaller rooms, and much leaner times, a short walk away.
“I’ve definitely been thinking about how I started my whole career right across the street at Nick’s Comedy Stop,” he says, speaking by phone on his way to a gig in Jackson, Miss. “It’s making me think about driving my beat-up truck in for no money for all those years, driving in there and meeting Patrice [O’Neal] and Dane [Cook] and Robert Kelly all those years ago.”
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