Interview · moment 14 of 36
Election Night at Helium and Overestimating Comics' Importance
from #173 - Shane Gillis | The Tim Dillon Show · #173
3 min
Guest
Shane recalls performing comedy the night Trump won, joking on stage while other comics cried, and reflects that comedians vastly overrate their own cultural importance.
- Comics have an inflated sense of what they can actually do.
- He wrote an apology statement in five minutes under threat of being fired.
- Tim was at a Chris Gethard election night live show next to a man in a banana costume who was wailing.
- Rich white women were throwing themselves on the floor and crying during the election coverage.
- SNL writer Andrew Michael called Tim to report that Kate McKinnon and others were crying when it looked like Trump was winning.
- Tim questioned why SNL people were so shocked when one of two candidates was obviously going to win.
- He'd been on the road that year and knew there was a real possibility Trump could win, even if he didn't think it would happen.
- The difference: Tim's grandma actually died that day, whereas these people were devastated over a political candidate loss.
Hillary ClintonDonald TrumpChris GethardSaturday Night LiveRay CaputoKate McKinnon