Ever the storyteller, Smashing Pumpkins singer/guitarist Billy Corgan not too long ago defined why he and comic Invoice Burr might have extra in widespread than their passing resemblance and shared first title. Throughout a current look on Howie Mandel’s Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast, Corgan revealed that there’s an opportunity they could possibly be half-brothers.
In what was both a tongue-in-cheek bit or a humorous coincidence, Mandel realized his workforce put up a photograph of Burr behind him. After acknowledging lookalike memes he’s seen on-line, Corgan shared a narrative about their potential familial connection.
“Most of my associates don’t even know this story,” Corgan started. “About 10 years in the past, one in every of my brothers was having a party, and my stepmother was there, who was clearly married to my father. And my stepmother stated to me, ‘Have you learnt who Invoice Burr is?’ Now at that time, I had by no means heard of Invoice Burr; I didn’t know who he was. I didn’t know he was a comic or something. He might have been the man down the road.”
Corgan continued, “And she or he stated, ‘Effectively, he’s this comic.’ I feel I even someway known as up an image on the telephone, and I type of seen straight away, ‘Gee, he type of appears like my father.’ Invoice Burr appears extra like my father than Invoice Burr appears like me or I seem like Invoice Burr. So I stated to my mom, ‘Why are you asking me this?’”
“I believed the very first thing she was going to say was, ‘Oh, I believed you’d discover the resemblance,’” Corgan added. “She goes, ‘I feel it is perhaps one in every of your father’s illegitimate youngsters. Invoice Burr is perhaps one of many youngsters that your father sired in his days being a touring musician.’ It is a true story. I’m not making this up; there is no such thing as a joke on this.”
Persevering with the story, Corgan remembered his father additionally mentioning the chance. “[He] did as soon as inform me that I had a half-brother named Invoice who was principally born across the similar time as me,” he stated.
As a kicker, Corgan revealed his stepmother stated his father sired a complete of 12 youngsters out of wedlock. He additionally admitted to wanting into the veracity of the story and wasn’t positive if all of the items added up.
To additional make clear, Corgan stated he doesn’t really imagine that he and Burr are associated, nevertheless it’s “simply a kind of issues,” like Bono wanting like Robin Williams. “There are folks on this planet who simply look alike,” he stated.
Corgan is 57 years previous and Burr is 56. Corgan spoke about having a “sophisticated relationship” along with his father following his demise in 2021. In the meantime, Burr is listed on his Wikipedia web page as rising up with each his mother and father, together with father Robert Burr, who was a dentist.
With out each of them taking a 23andMe check, there’s no manner of telling whether or not they’re really associated, nevertheless it definitely does make for an attention-grabbing story.