Bill Burr Says Nights After Performing in Broadway’s Glengarry Glen Ross Are ‘Grueling’: 'Now What Do I Do?’ 

Bill Burr is making his Broadway debut in the starry revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross. But while the eight-show a week schedule might be challenging for some, the standup comedian says the hardest part of the experience comes in the moments following his curtain call.

"After the show, that’s what’s grueling," Burr, 56, admitted during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "They applaud and then you go home to that lonely corporate apartment and you’re just staring at the wall going like, ‘Now, what do I do!’ "

He went on to explain that his wife, Nia Renée Hill, and their two children — daughter Lola, 8, and a 4½-year-old son whose name remains private — are "unfortunately" not staying with him in New York City.

"They come one week a month," Burr said, before lamenting about the challenges of keeping in touch with his family long distance.

"I’ve been doing the FaceTime. It works with my daughter... but my son... he’s not good at FaceTime," he noted. "When he picks up the phone, I just see like, an eye ball and he’s like, ‘Dad when are you coming home?’ And then he just, like, walks away. I’m like, ‘Alright buddy!’ "

So what has Burr been doing to help pass the time? A familiar hobby, it turns out.

"I do standup after the shows a lot of the nights just to take the edge off," Burr told Fallon. "And then also, I got some gigs right when this thing ends, so I can’t just take 4-5 months off of standup."

"It’s like going ot the gym," he joked. "[If I don't do] then I’m going to go out there and I’m going to suck, and then it all goes away and then I’m back home with my parents!"

Glengarry Glen Ross is currently in previews at the Palace Theatre in New York City. The production, directed by Tony Award-winner Patrick Marber, opens March 31. It is currently scheduled through June 28.

The play takes place over two days in "a cutthroat Chicago real estate office, where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers," according to an official synopsis. The stakes are high as the person who sells the most will win a car, while the one who sells the least will lose their job.

Starring in the production alongside Burr are Oscar and Emmy winner Kieran Culkin, Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk and Grammy winner Michael McKean. Also in the cast are stage stars Donald Webber, Jr. (Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch) and Howard W. Overshown (The Lehman Trilogy, A Soldier’s Play), as well as screen regular John Pirruccello (Barry, The Sex Lives of College Girls).

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Like Burr, Odenkirk and Pirruccello are making their Broadway debuts with the revival.

Mamet's masterpiece premiered at the National Theatre in London before opening on Broadway in March 1984. The show has been revived twice on Broadway in 2005 and 2013, in productions featuring actors like Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Tambor, Bobby Cannavale and David Harbour.

Tickets for Glengarry Glen Ross are now on sale.