Chris Gethard, the Buried Election Night Special, and the Banana Suit

• 1:10:46Chris Gethard was a friend of Tim's, but he found it odd that Gethard posted a Reddit comment about why the election night special didn't air.
• 1:12:03Gethard's fanbase largely struggles with mental illness and sits on the floor at shows—it feels like performing in a rehab.
• 1:12:59Gethard lives in terror of being canceled by his fanbase because that's his bread and butter.
• 1:13:38Tim and Ray Kampf were brought in to the election night special to be the bombastic heels, showing hard-edged realism.
• 1:17:06One performer was dressed like a banana and started crying as the election results came in—Tim couldn't help but laugh.
• 1:18:43Tim called Drew Michael, who explained why the Trump victory was funny: liberals had been so confident they'd lose, like a friend trying to hook up and getting shut down.
• 1:19:34Tim was the only Hillary advocate who made a good argument: she should win because she's a murderer who kills people and eats dinner.
• 1:21:24When the performers started crying and yelling, Tim laughed in their face—nothing makes people angrier than being laughed at.
• 1:22:25Gethard responded on Reddit that the timing made things bad creatively and morally as the creator of a community of creative people.
• 1:23:46Tim saw Gethard at a wedding where he brought his newborn baby in a playpen—a de classe move that everyone was offended by.
• 1:24:42Gethard claimed the show took a darker, more aggressive turn than planned and that Tim looked bad for doing what he was asked to do.
• 1:25:35Female performers got into a battle with Tim over Hillary being female, while he was calling her a murderer all night.
• 1:26:28Tim feels bad for people who live in constant fear of being canceled; he hasn't arranged his career to give anyone power over it.
• 1:26:58Gethard used to show Tim calls and texts from people threatening to kill themselves if he upset them.
• 1:27:30Shane Gillis said something about Chris on his podcast, and when Tim brought it up on Shane's show, Chris got angry that Tim didn't call them friends.
• 1:28:27Nothing about Tim's comedy is different—the audience changed, what they wanted changed, but Tim has been consistent the whole way through.
• 1:29:18Gethard wrote a seven-paragraph Reddit response designed so Tim couldn't respond publicly without looking like a crazy right-wing lunatic.
• 1:29:33Chris took down a funny video where Tim was telling people not to vote and to marry for money because a Black kid in it was allegedly getting harassed by alt-right trolls.
• 1:30:40If you're going to ask someone on a show, you have to accept that they'll find it funny when a guy dressed as a banana is crying.
• 1:32:07Don't build a castle made of cancelable sand—Gethard should just be honest if he doesn't like Tim instead of pulling content and posting on Reddit.
• 1:33:08Tim would never say Chris isn't funny now when he was funny then, and he's grateful for Gethard bringing him on the road when he was young.
• 1:34:01Tim is a real estate investor and deals in iconic properties—that's where his actual expertise lies, not comedy.

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