Bill Burr slams Ben Shapiro, 'racists' who send offensive photos to him and his wife

Bill Burr is slamming criticism from some fans and commentators about becoming "woke."

The comedy superstar opened up to Vulture in an interview published Thursday, July 31, about conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who said in a December column that he was a Burr fan until the comedian had "become woke."

The edgy funnyman told the outlet that Shapiro "doesn't even know what that word means," adding that their "definition of woke is white liberals' definition of woke, and they didn't even know what it was."

Burr called the behavior "treasonous" and said Shapiro "went there" with his comments "so he can then have something to talk about and then he can make money off dividing his own country." When Vulture pointed out Shapiro's goal – getting certain people online to talk about Burr – "worked," the comedian called the critics "racists."

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