rant · moment 22 of 30
Demanding Comedy Be About Healthcare Policy
from 159 - Bomb Disney World · #159
5 min
Tim rants about audience members who demand his comedy be politically substantive (about Medicare, HMOs, the Mideast) rather than about mundane topics like takeout food.
- If you go to a comedy show and don't like something, just shut your mouth—your opinion doesn't do anything.
- Most people's opinions aren't based on anything; they're regurgitating something they heard or trying to get attention.
- After ranting about takeout food, people complained he should be doing comedy about nothing—but he's actually writing a new hour on the Middle East peace process.
- Audiences demand comedy be intellectual, conform to their beliefs, avoid trivial topics like takeout, and instead focus on healthcare policy.
- Tim says he hopes and prays someone else has done more research into healthcare than he has, since he has his own job to do.
- He used to do cocaine with a girl who complained about quality to the dealer; the dealer's attitude was as long as you're buying it, you can say whatever.
- Bill Maher got flipped out on for something about comic book movies; Tim said something about adults not celebrating Halloween and giving the holiday back to children.
- He tweeted people should give Halloween back to children, buy a house, get a job—and it became the most controversial thing he's ever said.
- Telling adults not to wear a costume generated more outrage than everything else he's said combined.