Massachusetts native Bill Burr has never been one to pull punches, and he let them fly on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Burr was discussing his role on the hit Disney + Star Wars series “The Mandalorian” where he plays mercenary Migs Mayfield.
Burr responded to comments to Star Wars fans that are questioning why a Star Wars character would have a Boston accent.
“‘I’ve never heard a Boston accent in outer space,’ is what they say,” Burr told Fallon. “I always go like, ‘Oh yeah, what about English?’ Isn’t that a little weird, if you went to a galaxy far, far away, and you get off, and somebody’s like, ‘Hey how’s it going?’ And you totally understand them?”
“What about the fact that Han Solo is talking to a Bigfoot?,” Burr said, referring to the Wookie character Chewbacca. “He’s speaking Bigfoot, Han Solo’s speaking English, they never break character. But one keeps going ‘aughawaughawugh,’ and he’s like, ‘I said hit the button, Chewie!’ And that was all fine.”
Burr wasn’t done yet.
“How about C-3PO with an English accent? That was OK?,” Burr said. “The guy had been knighted? He just played Royal Albert Hall, now he’s hanging out with … Luke Skywalker?”
“Eff those nerdy, nitpicking nerds,” Burr concluded.