# Bill Burr VS Joey Pants **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2021, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113 "2021-10-08T03:06:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/1 "2021-10-08T03:06:55Z")
What I’m absolutely sure about: Bill Burr-- stand up, Joey Pants-- no stand up. The Mandalorian-- Bill Burr, The Matrix-- Joey Pants. Just Shoot Me-- Neither??? Please tell me who is in what because all you white people look alike. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/2 "2021-10-08T03:19:38Z")
Wow… Fuck, I hate this new program that deletes all the wit of brevety. But none of you saw it anyway. Maybe I’ll just go fuck right the fuck off. Hi Biggirl! Long time no talk! Perhaps this is the place to publish my Manifesto. Oh, nevermind. StarTrek is on. I’m outty. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/3 "2021-10-08T03:21:00Z")
Holy cow, am I a racist? Cuz there is a third, Enrico Colantoni, that I have mixed up with these other guys. Wow, I’m bad. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/4 "2021-10-08T03:27:53Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Holy cow, am I a racist? … Wow, I’m bad. No, you are not. Twice. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/5 "2021-10-08T03:35:43Z")
Do you have AMC or HBO? Bill Burr was in _Breaking Bad_. Joey Pants was in _The Sopranos_. ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/6 "2021-10-08T07:03:43Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > No, you are not. Twice. Definitely not. All black people look a like too. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/7 "2021-10-08T13:09:18Z")
Not ALL white people. Just these three. Oh, and the two Ryans. They look similar. Also not ALL black people look alike. Shannon and Sterling Sharpe for sure do. Damon Wayans and .Damon Wayans, Jr are spitting images. I sometimes mix up Shemar Moore and Morris Chestnut-- especially if they are shirtless. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/8 "2021-10-08T13:22:54Z")
I forgot Burr was in Breaking Bad. Wow. I guess the best way to tell them apart is that Bill Burr mostly plays A-holes from Boston (even in the Mandalorian) and Joe Pantoliano mostly plays A-holes from Jersey. Enrico Colantoni is Canadian and doesn’t really fit the “A-hole from…” imo. He was Veronica Mars’s loving father. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/9 "2021-10-08T13:30:49Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I guess the best way to tell them apart is that Bill Burr mostly plays A-holes from Boston (even in the Mandalorian) and Joe Pantoliano mostly plays A-holes from Jersey. Unfortunately, it becomes harder to distinguish these the further away you are from Boston & NJ. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/10 "2021-10-08T13:35:11Z")
Joey Pants is definitely squeakier. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/11 "2021-10-08T13:36:45Z")
Enrico got added because he’s the one from Just Shoot Me playing the character I thought was played by either Burr or Pants and it was neither. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/12 "2021-10-08T13:44:09Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Joe Pantoliano with a buzz cut, but I’ve seen Bill Burr with one. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/13 "2021-10-08T15:29:20Z")
I’m white and I’ve gotten them confused too. Also Fred Ward looks like an elderly version of Jon Bernthal Jesse Plemons looks like a less successful, less attractive version of Matt Damon ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/14 "2021-10-08T22:21:08Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Enrico Colantoni is Canadian and doesn’t really fit the “A-hole from…” imo. He was Veronica Mars’s loving father. Colantoni is the opposite of that - he always comes across as warm and amicable, even when his character is having a man garroted. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/15 "2021-10-08T22:25:43Z")
He was kind of an A hole on Just Shoot Me. I feel like I’m typing ‘Just Shoot Me’ a lot lately. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/16 "2021-10-08T22:30:54Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > He was kind of an A hole on Just Shoot Me. How can anyone come across as an asshole while in the same room as David Spade? He’d be like a candle next to an A-bomb. > [@Biggirl](#): > > I feel like I’m typing ‘Just Shoot Me’ a lot lately. Yeah, you should probably look in to that. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/17 "2021-10-08T23:02:44Z")
Erico Colantoni was also Mathesar, the leader of the Thermians, in _Galaxy Quest_. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/18 "2021-10-09T14:02:40Z")
For years I thought Enrico Colantoni played the electrician/handyman character in the pilot of “NewsRadio” (the part that Joe Rogan played in the regular series) but it turns out it was a guy named [Greg Lee](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497339/). Fun trivia about that part: Lee was a last minute replacement for the original actor that was cast for the part, who was fired just before filming of the pilot began. Who did he replace? Ray Romano ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/19 "2021-10-09T17:22:22Z")
Joe Pantoliano has a whiny little boy voice. Bill Burr has a regular voice. Enrico Colantoni has a really big face, looks like a guy who gets hit with a shovel in cartoons. That should sort it out for you. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113/20 "2021-10-14T19:33:05Z")
I’m sure Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton are two entirely different people, but I’m damned if I can figure out which is which. Sadly, one of them has left us, but I don’t know who, so I’ll just keep waiting to see if the actor continues to age. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-burr-vs-joey-pants/952113.md?page=2)