Employing a style he has dubbed “uninformed logic,” stand-up comedian Bill Burr has spent the better part of two decades refining his sardonic outlook on everyday life. An L.A. resident by way of Massachusetts, Burr lived in New York City for nine years before heading west to further his career in television and film. He is set to record his second one hour stand-up special for Comedy Central at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on Dec. 17, but will first do a string of performances at The Punchline in Sacramento Dec. 10-13.

“I’ve been working on the new material since the night I said goodnight on my last special, which was November of 2007,” said Burr from Los Angeles International before hopping on a plane to Ohio, where he was scheduled for a few warm-up dates. “The second you tape it and you know it’s going on TV, you know that the hourglass has been tipped over and you have a certain amount of time to write basically another 45 minutes.”

Most of Burr’s act is comprised of his own personal opinions, which, he admits, are not based on any concrete facts. His comedy is a refreshingly simple alternative to many comics’ well-researched observational humor.

A running theme in Burr’s act is overpopulation and the effect of humans on Earth’s ecosystem, a heady subject tackled in layperson’s terms.

“The thing I’m struggling with right now is that you have compassion as a human being, right?” said Burr. “And you contemplate death and all that type of stuff, but the world is overrun with human beings. There’s too many of us.”

Burr’s onstage persona works because it isn’t a persona at all. Rather, his stream-of-consciousness observations give the audience the feeling of simply watching a normal person explain his viewpoints without any pretense.

“You really get into that whole mindset of ‘I can’t say that, that’s not me.’ Like, you get a guy who’s decided he’s going to work clean," he explains. "And then he’ll say the most foul and hilarious, f***ed-up joke in the Green Room, and the other comics at the show are on the ground laughing. I think [my onstage persona] is basically who I am. I mean, I’m not yelling and jumping around as much, but there’s always the entertainment factor you have to take into consideration.”

On June 8, Burr brought his stark, Darwinian observations to “The Late Show With Conan O’Brien,” becoming the first comic to perform on O'Brien's new late-night program.

“That was a huge compliment for me as a comedian,” said Burr. “I ended up being the guinea pig though.”

After a pair of appearances on “Chappelle’s Show” and a few bit parts in other television shows, Burr finally got his first speaking role in a major feature film alongside Tina Fey and Steve Carell in “Date Night.” Though his character, Detective Walsh, only has nine lines in the film, Burr was enthusiastic about being on set. And he realizes fame takes time.

“Usually when I’m in a movie my character doesn’t even have a name,” said Burr. “So at least I have a last name."

Though Burr’s career has grown exponentially steadily in the past few years, from brief features on stand-up showcases to numerous appearances on Comedy Central, his new material will show just how much he has come to know himself.

“I’m more coming to terms with my anger and I also have more paranoid thoughts than in the last special,” said Burr. “I would like to maybe go three years between this special and the next one. By then, I figure I will be married and have a kid, so it will be totally different."

“I would never tell an embarrassing story about my kid to make his going to school horrific,” said Burr. “I’ve done some stuff about my family but I’m always conscious of the fact that I’m the one who made the decision to get into the public eye. I don’t think it’s fair to drag people in who just had the unfortunate luck to be related to you.”

Whether the happiness and challenge that comes with being a parent will make his comedy lighter or that much more tense is something fans will just have to wait for. Until then, you can hear a childless but no-less-frustrated Burr Thursday-Saturday at The Punchline.

The Punchline is at 2100 Arden Way Sacramento, CA.