rant · moment 6 of 18
The Car Ride to Montreal and the Girl Who Bombed Singing 'Empire State of Mind'
from Nice Means Nothing · #4
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minTim tells the story of the tense drive up to Montreal with other comics, his contempt for a falsely nice 'park slope' comedian who sang Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' in the car, and her subsequent hysterical crying breakdown after bombing badly at the showcase.
- 11:26Tim drives to Montreal with a funny Black comic and a rich white liberal woman from Park Slope.
- 12:00People who are nice to you right away without earning friendship are trying to kill you.
- 12:43The woman in the car keeps buying into the festival mindset instead of having the right cynical attitude about it.
- 13:43Everyone in the car starts singing 'Empire State of Mind' when it comes on, and the woman belts out the lyrics like she's performing.
- 14:16Tim felt his life was stolen watching people burst into song around him—more threatening than being held at gunpoint.
- 14:51At the showcase, the woman absolutely bombs performing.
- 15:31Tim doesn't celebrate other comics bombing—unless they're the kind who sing and say things like 'when I get anxious, I go shopping.'
- 15:54The woman claims anxiety makes her go shopping; Tim suggests she should have bought some jokes instead.