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Reading Chris Cuomo's Coronavirus Diary Aloud

from #195 - Take Me To The Moon | The Tim Dillon Show · #195

3 min

Tim reads and riffs on Chris Cuomo's dramatic on-air account of his coronavirus symptoms and a mysterious pulmonologist's advice, mocking the scripted, self-serious tone and joking Cuomo is 'functionally retarded.'

In this bit9 moments
  • Tim reads Cuomo's diary entry claiming low antibodies and susceptibility to bronchitis, attributing it to genetics or culture.
  • Cuomo describes being soaked in sweat Friday night, unable to sleep, scared and considering canceling his show.
  • Tim interrupts to ask if Cuomo's network of concerned people might partly exist because his brother is governor and he has a TV show.
  • A pulmonary expert calls Cuomo with instructions to get up and stretch his torso.
  • Tim jokes about someone pranking Cuomo by pretending to be a doctor giving absurd medical advice.
  • The fake doctor tells Cuomo to do the funky chicken dance outside because it opens lung passageways.
  • The doctor instructs Cuomo to do the running man because it increases circulation and prevents viral binding to blood cells.
  • Tim, as the pulmonologist, asks Cuomo if he can do blackface and explains the virus is racist so blackface will scare it away.
  • The doctor tells Cuomo to perform a crude act, which Cuomo resists before being pressured to do it anyway.

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