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Angry Audiences, White Privilege, and Comedy in 2017
from 2017, A Year Of Love And Peace · #76
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3 minTim talks about performing in New Hampshire, Portland, and Woodstock to increasingly tense, sensitive audiences, then goes on an extended rant about privileged liberal-arts crowds feeling complicit and getting offended by his comedy, mocking the idea of white guilt and comparing it to Native American poverty and celebrity scandals like TJ Miller and Mario Batali.
- 4:17Tim hasn't seen a happy person in a very long time.
- 4:29Tim catalogs the cascade of bad news: inauguration, travel ban, immigration, TJ Miller, Mario Batali.
- 4:55Tim describes the current climate as one where nobody's real and everyone is tense, anxious, angry.
- 5:13White, young, urban millennials who grew up privileged are less likely to laugh at the horrors of the world.
- 5:31Tim's comedy explicitly deals with the horrors of the world, not goofy material.
- 5:54Tim is sick of hearing about white privilege and sarcastically suggests wealthy audiences tithe to the poor and donate their skin for grafting onto burned children.