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Come Town, Independent Platforms, and Ari Shaffir's Freedom
from Dinner Pig · #99
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3 minThey talk about the Come Town show's independence from advertisers and standards and practices, contrasting it with Comedy Central's censorship (refusing to call Richard Spencer a white supremacist), and praising Ari Shaffir's carefree lifestyle and copyright indifference.
- 20:19Comedy Central rejected calling Richard Spencer a white supremacist, asking him to use white nationalist instead.
- 20:42Tim refuses to dignify Spencer's preferred terminology, explaining what he actually believes in.
- 21:27Gas Digital has a legal team and confidence in their ability to respond to lawsuits.
- 22:01Living without a wife or kids gives Ari the freedom to disappear for months or move to a cave in Myanmar.
- 22:30Ari represents a successful model of doing your own thing independent of the industry.
- 22:51Independent comedians still need some validation from the system, not complete rejection of it.
- 23:01Tim wants recognition that he could write something with mass appeal, not just maintain Come Town's success.
- 23:30You still have to play the industry's game to some extent because crowdfunding a movie or pilot is difficult.
Richard SpencerAri ShaffirComedy CentralGaS DigitalLewis Gómez