rant · moment 17 of 27
Hack Comics Who Should Quit
from #171 - Brownie Boat | The Tim Dillon Show · #171
6 min
Tim goes on a tirade about untalented open mic comedians who can't be told the truth about how bad they are, comparing it to delusional marathon runners and arguing most people should just be audience members.
- Most people are so bad at comedy that explaining how bad they are would make them cry; they have no idea.
- Tim compares bad comics to someone with zero chance of becoming a marathon runner taking advice from actual runners.
- Meeting comics on the road who are so far gone there's nothing to tell them except to quit entirely.
- Kurt Metzger's point: you have to get good enough to be hack, and some comics haven't even reached that level.
- Asking bad comics if they realize the audience hated them and that five minutes was the worst of their day.
- Tim describes audiences giving polite chuckles out of discomfort, desperate for bad comics to leave the stage.
- The majority of people doing comedy now are just fans; they get on stage because no one tells them they're bad anymore.
- When bad comics say the room doesn't get their material, the actual room for them is a padded hospital cell.
- Tim tells struggling comics to stop writing jokes and sign themselves into a mental institution instead.
Kurt MetzgerKatie Hughes