Bill Burr Takes Issue With the Claim That Motherhood Is The Hardest Profession (VIDEO)

You've probably heard people say that being a mother is the most difficult job on the planet. You might have even heard Oprah Winfrey say it on her talk show. Bill Burr certainly did, and he took issue with the claim on his stand-up special, 'Bill Burr: Let It Go' (Sun. 11PM on COM). He made some rather compelling arguments.

"Being a mother is the most difficult job on the planet?," he asked. "Oh yeah, all those mothers that die every year from black lung from inhaling all that coal dust." But that wasn't the only dangerous profession he was poised to compare motherhood to.

Our favorite argument was in the way a mother can rid herself of her charges at any time. "Would you rather be up in the sunshine," he asked in comparison to drilling into the earth, "Running around with a couple of toddlers that you can send to bed anytime you want on some sort of trumped-up charges because you want to have a drink and watch 'The Price Is Right'?"


Burr may not have been politically correct with his arguments against motherhood being the most difficult job on the planet, particularly when he said the only reason we allow women to pat themselves on the back all the time is because we want to "get" with them, so to speak, but he was definitely funny. "These mothers are bending over at the waist putting DVDs into DVD players," he said astonished. "I don't know how they do it."

Plus, as he pointed out regarding Oprah Winfrey making this claim, "Oprah's not even a mother. How ... would she know?"