rant · moment 8 of 20
People Who Love Tragedy, and Why Tim Loves Funerals
from #167 - Beach Corpse | The Tim Dillon Show · #167
4 min
Tim describes his aunt's morbid glee retelling tragic stories at family gatherings, then transitions into an extended riff on how much he genuinely loves funerals — the wake, the burial, the shrimp cocktail afterward — as a space for shallow, low-stakes reconnection.
- Tim on how meaningless it is that people get excited about photographing a neighbor's dump on their property and bring it to city council.
- His aunt fills with life at the dinner table when recounting tragic stories like a kid who jumped off a bridge and became paralyzed.
- The aunt loves bringing up tragedies like a kid who took Xanax, drank, fell down the stairs and died three doors over.
- Tim admits he really enjoys funerals and doesn't often talk about it because people might take it the wrong way.
- He loves the wake, burial, drive to the funeral, and seeing people you haven't seen in a while in a space where you don't have to keep up.
- At funerals, Tim likes to cry, be sad, think about his own mortality, and feel bad for people who lost loved ones.