Interview · moment 13 of 22
Comedy as Peter Pan Syndrome and Floating LA People
from Heroism is a Solitary Thing · #85
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3 minGuest
Tim theorizes that many people in the comedy/LA scene use it to avoid growing up and are just floating untethered, while others, like him and Connor, actually care about the craft.
- 33:44Tim describes a mid-30s party in LA where people were doing blow and dancing, floating in space despite the beautiful house.
- 33:59Being tethered to reality would be a negative in the LA entertainment business — you have to stay ungrounded.
- 34:23Tim reflects on his own path starting late in 2010, with things not going until 2016 — six years of attrition before success.
- 34:47Some people are just there to float around the scene for fun, but Tim says some of them actually give a shit about doing the work.
- 35:21The creative deadening of doing shitty one-nighters for money — he becomes a word plumber performing a service, not an artist.
- 35:38He can make crowds laugh for 45 minutes, take $300, and drive home, but it's all old jokes from when he was 19 about weed and sex.
- 35:59The question arises whether getting a day job at some point makes sense so you can skip shitty gigs and focus on actually getting better.