Bill Burr went off on conservatives in response to the outrage surrounding the much-maligned remake of Disney’s Snow White.
The film released March 21 to a dismal critical response; and despite using a beloved Disney IP — which typically guarantees a profit for the company — it’s projected to lose somewhere in the neighborhood of $115 million.
Critics of the movie have pointed to actress Rachel Zegler, who played the titular character. In addition to her casting causing controversy — due to the fact that she’s Latina — she caused quite a stir herself with her criticism of the source material. That led some to label the movie “woke” before it had even come out.
The Daily Wire, for example, vowed to make their own Snow White movie to combat the “woke” one. It was to star Brett Cooper, the political commentator who left the company in December 2024.
On a recent episode of Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast, the comedian — who mistakenly referred to the movies as Cinderella — mocked the ones who made similar complaints when he said:
I’ll tell you one of my favorite things, is how each side thinks the other side is dumb and then each side thinks the other side’s a bunch of babies. Specifically, the right thinks that liberals are a bunch of fucking snowflakes, whiny entitled assholes, which, I mean, come on, that’s pretty fucking true, right? But, like, for conservative people to act like they’re not the biggest fucking babies also is fucking hilarious.
Have you seen this fucking — my people, whitey — we’re all fucking upset. There’s enough of us to get it going trending anyway. We’re upset about the new Cinderella movie. “The actress playing Cinderella isn’t White. There’s no prince. They changed the story. What am I going to tell my kids?” The shit that my people get upset about. “What am I going to tell my kids?” Well, fucking talk around it the way you talk around the real history of this country… You can talk around fucking genocide and slavery. I think you could talk around a stupid fucking movie about some broad who didn’t exist. You can’t do that? Go take her to go see fucking Pinocchio! “I don’t like Pinocchio because that fucking wooden puppet transitions into a real boy! First of all, I don’t like trans people and God only makes real boys, not some immigrant named Geppetto! What am I supposed to tell my kids?”