rant · moment 9 of 19
Losing the 'Everyman' Audition to a Yale Guy
from Little Anna Army · #39
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3 minTim recounts bombing an audition where casting wanted a conventional-looking 'everyman' instead of him, riffing on Hollywood's obsession with attractive actors and his own burned bridges at Vice/Munchies.
- 24:13Tim bombed an audition for an "everyman" role but lost it to a good-looking guy from Yale.
- 24:27The Yale guy is the everyman because he's third-generation Ivy League.
- 24:39Tim defines everyman: getting high with a friend and drinking his mother's Lactaid, calling it "tade."
- 25:10Tim's manager keeps asking him for tapes of himself doing different activities to pitch for hosting gigs.
- 25:38Tim interviewed at Munchies and told the interviewer he looked like a fucking clown.
- 26:07Tim's had enough of extended family members, even though he loves some of them like Uncle Kevin.
- 26:29Hollywood keeps hiring elite athletes and MIT grads as the everyman instead of actual regular people.
- 26:43Tim questions when the last everyman character actually got anything on TV, then jokes Neil Gorsuch is one.
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