Interview · moment 7 of 36
Comedy Camps, Twitter Mobs, and Jealousy Among Comics
from #173 - Shane Gillis | The Tim Dillon Show · #173
4 min
Guest
Discussion of the tribalism between comedy 'camps,' how success breeds resentment among peers, and the hypocrisy of self-proclaimed tolerant comics being some of the meanest people.
- Tim discusses how the comedy world has fractured into rival camps, making collaboration between talented comics from different sides feel impossible.
- Comics assume others belong to the 'odd casters' camp and label them social justice warriors, creating fear and division among peers.
- Some comics can walk up and verbally attack him with impunity at comedy clubs while the audience sides with them.
- Tim notes that most hostile interactions are passive-aggressive on Twitter, and deleting the platform would make it all disappear, but that's hard to do.
- His friends from Long Island would be happier seeing him embroiled in a national scandal than succeeding with a real job.
- Comics in the network have a resentment instinct: if you're not succeeding, you feel good when someone else gets brought down.
- Many comics believe the alternative path they've all taken means none of them will have mainstream success, so when somebody does, they resent it.
- Tim pushed back hard on Twitter against these dynamics because comics tweet about mental health and self-care while simultaneously trying to destroy each other.
- The comics claiming to be tolerant and woke are actually the meanest people he knows, exposing what he sees as deep hypocrisy.