Interview · moment 23 of 29
What It Costs to Live Comfortably in New York
from 158 - Leaving Hell · #158
2 min
Guest
A breakdown of the real money needed to live well in New York, contrasted with the fading old bohemian Lower East Side, and a segue into mocking modern Brooklyn 'comedians' who are really failed theater kids.
- Tim breaks down the money needed to live comfortably in New York—real money, several hundred thousand, or at minimum 150k for a nicer place.
- The fantasy New York life: beach house on Long Island, nice Tribeca apartment, eating the best food, the old St. Marks scene before the city's financial crisis ended it all.
- Comedy in New York now is embarrassing and exhausting—every third person in Brooklyn is a comedian, and they're all terrible.
- These new comedians are all grown-up theater kids, not genuine funny people—there's zero actual funny person in their entire friend group.
- Theater kid energy is ultra-supportive and celebratory, the opposite of what real comedy and real theater used to be.
- High school suburban theater program energy is what dominates now—an ultra-supportive circle jerk that the industry keeps feeding into.