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Suburban Garage Sales, Hoarder Houses, and Pilgrim State
from #170 - Eat The Rich; They're Keto Part 1| The Tim Dillon Show · #170
4 min
Driving through the suburban neighborhood, Tim and Ray joke about garage sales, a suicidal kid's lawn taunt, a piss-soaked hoarder house, and the Pilgrim State mental institution comedy show where a heckler chose jail over the show.
- Garage sales are a tried-and-true American staple where people sell old shoes to buy oxycontin in the parking lot.
- Tim recalls a Catholic High School kid threatening to kill himself on someone's lawn as a comeback.
- A hoarder house on the corner had floors so saturated with urine they condemned the entire structure.
- Condemned houses with reclusive residents were a real phenomenon from his childhood, not just a movie trope.
- Tim performed comedy at Pilgrim State mental institution, a rehab facility, where the show was part of rehabilitation programming.
- During a show at Pilgrim State, a patient bombed on stage and when told he'd go to jail if he walked out, responded that he didn't care.
- The ultimate test of bombing in comedy is when people choose jail over sitting through the rest of your set.
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