rant · moment 5 of 24
New York vs LA, Moving Plans, and the Coming Recession
from No Fat Nazis · #126
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3 minTim riffs on New York's gritty charm versus LA's flashy 'richer and better looking than you' comedy, his ambivalence about moving to LA given his New York apartment and touring life, and worries about an impending economic downturn making new overhead risky.
- 9:49New York is gothic like a hotel, LA is more like a rogue — there's no base for star power in LA.
- 10:14Everything in LA is next to a Rite Aid or something shitty, whereas New York's dirt and filth keeps comedians funny and grounded.
- 10:25LA comedy is a genre of 'I'm richer and better looking than you' — meme comedy — that gets greeted with silence in New York.
- 10:36Tim argues the New York audience is more sophisticated than the LA audience.
- 10:55Every time he goes to LA he thinks about moving there, but he stays in New York because he has people to stay with and keeps a cheap apartment.
- 11:17Tim doesn't know what's happening with the economy and thinks everything might crash in the next year.
- 11:34He won't take on more overhead right now because a recession could leave him holding two properties.
- 12:09His road work is mostly Northeast and Midwest, not much West Coast.
- 12:26Tim's New York agent has better relationships on the East Coast and Midwest, making him an easier sell in those areas than on the West Coast.