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Ari Shaffir's Death Tweets and the Kobe Backlash
from #185 - Stunning Estate | The Tim Dillon Show · #185
6 min
Tim discusses Ari Shaffir's pattern of tweeting offensive things immediately after celebrities die, the scale of backlash over the Kobe tweet including doxing of Ari's parents and bomb threats, and compares it to backlash he's faced for Billy Eilish jokes.
- Tim describes how Americans survive in a haze of junk food and self-hatred, perking up only for controversies that make them feel something.
- Ari Shaffir's pattern: he tweets something heinous about dead celebrities while their bodies are still warm.
- Kobe Bryant is the biggest person Ari has ever made this kind of joke about, and the entire city of Los Angeles is mourning him.
- Tim notes that Ari's parents have been doxxed and bomb threats called in to venues he's performing at.
- Dina Hashem made a joke about XXXTentacion on a wrapper and had to make all her accounts private after threats from his fanbase.
- Ari is a funny guy and has been good to Tim as another comic, introducing him to people and showing his work around.
- Tim will never understand why people doxx someone's parents who had nothing to do with the controversy, especially Ari's parents who survived the Holocaust.
- When someone beloved dies, you should choose your words carefully about them.
- Tim has a video where he says Megan McCain will only have sex with her father's corpse, but he didn't make it the day John McCain died.