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Billy Eilish, The Voice, and State TV Fallon

from #192 - Coronavirus The Musical | The Tim Dillon Show · #192

3 min

He riffs on Billy Eilish being compared to Whitney Houston on The Voice, then rants that late-night hosts like Jimmy Fallon and Ellen broadcasting from home is basically state television during a collapsing society.

In this bit8 moments
  • Putting Billie Eilish and Whitney Houston in the same sentence reveals how much a decaying society deserves a plague.
  • Whitney Houston did exactly what a musician should do: entertain people and die in the tub without overstaying her welcome.
  • Jimmy Fallon's doing the Tonight Show from his house while Whoopi Goldberg skypes in interviews.
  • Tim questions whether we'll still be watching Jimmy Fallon if we're living under martial law.
  • Late-night hosts are functioning as coordinated state TV, no different from a dictatorship's propaganda machine.
  • Tim imagines tanks rolling down the street while Ellen dances in her living room on Instagram.
  • There should be martial law on Instagram requiring military approval before anyone can post.
  • Red rooms are supposedly torture chambers where people comment donations to control what happens to victims, like super chats on YouTube.
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Whitney HoustonJimmy FallonBillie EilishEllen DeGeneresThe Tonight ShowWhoopi GoldbergThe Voice

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