Interview · moment 8 of 30
Why People Hate Successful Comedians (and Logan Paul)
from #174 - Brendan Schaub | The Tim Dillon Show · #174
5 min
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They discuss the online hate Brendan receives, comparing it to hatred toward Logan Paul and Justin Bieber, concluding it stems from jealousy and comedians' insecurity about their own careers rather than anything real.
- Stand-up has no algorithm—success depends on writing, crafting jokes, handling bombs, doing road shows, and understanding the marketing side.
- Comics are animals; they lack the discipline that comes from athletic backgrounds like Taekwondo or martial arts.
- Tim rejects the 'athletes' work ethic' framing—it's just work ethic, and comedians work just as hard as fighters.
- Logan Paul fight against Cassie Tyson—Tim watched it and thinks Logan is a good dude.
- People hate Logan Paul for the same reason they hate Justin Bieber: insane success, regardless of merit.
- Tim observes that many comedians resent successful people, thinking they don't deserve it or didn't pay the right dues.
- The market decides your value, not groups of haters online—those people don't matter.
- The people upset with Tim are dissatisfied with their own careers and lives, jealous that he's selling out arenas while they're not.
- People find it weird that Tim transitioned from football to fighting to stand-up—they resent watching him figure things out across multiple careers.
- Tim's point: some people spend their entire lives not figuring things out, so they resent others who keep learning and succeeding in new fields.