rant · moment 12 of 15
The 50-Year-Old LA Woman Going Spiritual and the Comedy Community's Theater Kid Energy
from 151 - Toddler Suicide Bomber · #151
6 min
A bit about an aging LA woman turning to wellness culture once men stop wanting her, transitioning into Tim's complaints about the 'theater kid energy' and unearned confidence in the current comedy scene.
- Tim doesn't need to write about socialized medicine or his mother's mental institution to be relevant.
- Called a corporate shill despite making no money and working in digital media that barely exists.
- The 50-year-old LA woman trope: life revolves around being desirable until she isn't, then spirituality begins.
- Comedy community has theater kid energy—unearned jubilance and self-importance.
- Tim was a real actor on Sesame Street and in legitimate off-Broadway productions, not high school theater.
- Performed in a play about childhood sexual abuse in the Village when it still had integrity and black box theaters.
- Manhattan's small theaters replaced by theater kids with PR departments and manufactured personas.
- Countless talented people in New York will die underappreciated while mediocre ones get platforms and attention.
- Successful performers today are lucky—they didn't invent anything and aren't earning riots or refunds from audiences.
- When people copy him, Tim says thank you, but nobody's actually copying him.
Sesame Streetthe comedy communityNew York CityJoan Rivers