Bill Burr Age 2026: 58 Years Old, 34 Years Doing Stand-Up

Last updated October 2, 2026 · By Nathan Cole

Bill Burr is 58 years old in 2026. He was born June 10, 1968, in Canton, Massachusetts — a birthdate confirmed across Wikipedia, On This Day’s celebrity database, Last.fm’s bio, and MensJournal. He turned 58 on June 10, 2026, and he turns 59 on June 10, 2027.

The number only tells half the story. Burr started stand-up in 1992 at age 24 and has now been doing it for 34 years — longer than most of his audience has been alive. In that span he launched the Monday Morning Podcast (running since May 2007), collected a Grammy nomination for Paper Tiger, played Patrick Kuby on Breaking Bad, directed and starred in the Netflix film Old Dads (2023), and made his Broadway debut in 2025’s Glengarry Glen Ross revival. At 58 he is still touring hard: this very week he is playing a multi-night run at the Chicago Theatre, and on October 17 he headlines the Fastball Comedy Festival in Mesa, Arizona.

Bill Burr’s Early Life in Canton, Massachusetts

William Frederic Burr was born June 10, 1968, in Canton, Massachusetts, to nurse Linda Ann (née Wigent) and dentist Robert Edmund Burr, per Wikipedia’s referenced biography. He is of German and Irish descent and was raised Catholic.

He graduated from Canton High School in 1987, spent two semesters at North Carolina State University, and earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Emerson College in Boston in 1993. Before comedy paid, he worked warehouse jobs — the source of his famous line that he liked the work because “if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away.”

How Old Was Bill Burr When He Started Stand-Up?

He was 24. Burr started performing stand-up in 1992, cutting his teeth on Boston open mics before moving to New York City in 1995 to chase comedy full-time, per Wikipedia. That means 2026 marks 34 years on stage — a run that began when Bill Clinton was first elected president.

He started at an age when most comics are still deciding whether to try. Burr’s peers from that Boston scene took notice early; three decades later, observers of the American stand-up circuit still call him a “comedian’s comedian,” and Rolling Stone dubbed him “the undisputed heavyweight champ of rage-fueled humor.”

Bill Burr’s Career Timeline: 1992 to 2026

Here is the arc, year by year — it is also the story of how a 24-year-old open-mic kid became a 58-year-old arena headliner.

Every Bill Burr Stand-Up Special

Burr has released seven full-length specials. The network column tells its own business story: a Comedy Central start, a long Netflix run, and a 2025 move to Hulu with Drop Dead Years.

The Grammy nomination came for Paper Tiger at the 2022 awards, when Burr was 54. He also earned a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2021 for the dark comedy series Immoral Compass, per Last.fm and televisionstats.com. And in 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him 17th on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.

The Monday Morning Podcast: 19 Years Behind the Mic

In May 2007, at age 39, Burr started recording the Monday Morning Podcast from his home — one hour of rants, tour stories, sports talk, and listener advice, released twice a week. Nineteen years later it is still going, making it one of the longest-running comedy podcasts anywhere.

The show is a second career in its own right. It airs on the All Things Comedy network, which Burr co-founded in 2012, and his wife Nia has appeared on episodes over the years. For fans who only know him from specials, the podcast is where Burr’s unfiltered voice lives week to week — and it has been there, without interruption, since George W. Bush’s second term.

Bill Burr’s Acting Career: From Breaking Bad to Broadway

Burr’s acting résumé reads like a second career built in the gaps between tours. He played Patrick Kuby, Saul Goodman’s fixer, on AMC’s Breaking Bad from 2011 to 2013 (ages 43–45). He created, co-wrote, and voiced Frank Murphy on Netflix’s animated sitcom F Is for Family, which ran 2015–2021. And from 2019 to 2023 he played Migs Mayfeld on Disney+’s The Mandalorian.

Film work followed: supporting roles in Daddy’s Home (2015), Daddy’s Home 2 (2017), and The King of Staten Island (2020), plus a turn as John F. Kennedy in Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted (2024). At 55 he co-wrote, directed, and starred in the Netflix comedy Old Dads (2023) — his feature directing debut. At 57 he made his Broadway debut in the 2025 revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. In 2013, The New York Times called him “one of the funniest, most distinctive voices in the country” — a description he has spent the decade since living up to.

Bill Burr’s Wife and Kids: Family Life at 58

Burr married actress and producer Nia Renee Hill in 2013 — 13 years of marriage as of 2026. The couple has two children: a daughter born in 2017 and a son born in 2020, per Wikipedia and multiple bios. Fatherhood arrived late by design and became some of his richest material — Old Dads is, at its core, a film about being an older father among younger parents.

How Tall Is Bill Burr? Height and Other Facts

Burr stands 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m), per IMDb and most biographical listings. A few bios round him down to 5’9″, so treat the inch either way as the honest range.

Beyond the measurements: he is a licensed helicopter pilot (reported as of 2015), a longtime drummer and metal fan, and he has said he stopped drinking alcohol. He also flies his own material — writing, producing, and directing more of his own work as the years stack up, from F Is for Family to Old Dads to the All Things Comedy network he co-founded in 2012.

Bill Burr’s Net Worth: What 34 Years on Stage Built

Age and money tell the same story here. Celebrity Net Worth puts Burr’s fortune at $20 million — a figure built across three decades of touring, seven specials, a twice-weekly podcast with 19 years of ad inventory, network acting roles, and the All Things Comedy business.

No outlet has ever published Burr’s per-show fee or special paychecks, so the $20 million figure is a reported estimate, not a verified balance sheet. What is verifiable is the output: decades of sold-out theatres and arenas, including Madison Square Garden, Royal Albert Hall, and Fenway Park, plus directing and producing credits that keep him earning beyond the stage. At 58, he is still adding to it weekly.

The Billy Corgan Half-Brother Story

In November 2024, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan told Howie Mandel’s podcast that his stepmother had once suggested Bill Burr might be his half-brother — the product of Corgan’s traveling-musician father. Corgan, born in 1967, is nearly Burr’s exact contemporary, which made the story stick. Mandel then ambushed Burr with Corgan on the January 21, 2025 episode; Burr was visibly annoyed, and Mandel publicly apologized for the stunt (coverage via NME, February 2025).

It is unproven and likely unprovable — a barroom story, not a fact. But it is the funniest thing attached to Burr’s age this year, and it shows how closely his public image is now tied to the generation he came up with.

Bill Burr in 2026: Still Selling Out at 58

There is no sign of a slowdown. This week — the first week of October 2026 — Burr is playing a multi-night run at the Chicago Theatre (October 2–4, per myfirstevent.com’s 2026 tour listing), coming off an October 1 date at FireKeepers Casino in Michigan. On October 17–18 he headlines the inaugural Fastball Comedy Festival at Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona, alongside Dave Chappelle and Tom Segura (weownthelaughs.com, August 2026).

Earlier in 2026 he played the Tabernacle in Atlanta (May 13–14), headlined a 17,000-capacity stadium show at Pawtucket’s Centreville Bank Stadium (June 12), and appeared at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Calgary (August 28–30). A September 2026 profile described the 58-year-old as consciously moving past his “angry guy” persona toward what he calls a “meet-in-the-middle” style (SSBCrack News). Thirty-four years after his first open mic, the road is still the job.

Sources & Reporting

Figures in this profile reflect reporting through October 2026. Key sources: Wikipedia (birthdate of June 10, 1968, Canton birthplace, parents’ names and professions, education, career milestones, family details — all from its referenced entry); On This Day (independently confirms the June 10, 1968 birthdate and Canton, Massachusetts birthplace); Last.fm (birthdate, Grammy and Emmy nominations, Monday Morning Podcast since 2007, All Things Comedy founding); MensJournal (birthdate and parent details); SSBCrack News (September 2026 — describes Burr “at 58” and his current touring persona); myfirstevent.com (October 2026 tour dates, updated September 2026); weownthelaughs.com (August 2026 — Fastball Comedy Festival lineup); NME (November 2024 and February 2025 — the Corgan half-brother story and the January 2025 podcast meeting); IMDb/NotedNames (height of 5’10”). Where sources disagree on height, the article discloses both figures. The $20 million fortune figure is Celebrity Net Worth’s reported estimate.

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