India, March 12 -- Comedian Bill Burr slammed Elon Musk as an "idiot," and called him an "evident Nazi." The 56-year-old made the comments during his appearance on the latest episode of NPR's Fresh Air podcast, where he promoted his new Hulu comedy special, Drop Dead Years. Burr said his latest stand-up material is aimed at waking people up to the realities of the present political atmosphere.

"I'm trying to get regular people to stop yelling at each other and realize that it's a select few group of nerds eating raw almonds and doing their stupid workouts and competing with each other to have the biggest infinity pool, and the rest of us are getting pushed down," Burr said. "They've politicized the whole stupid thing and we're falling fo...