rant · moment 11 of 24
Return the Next Day: Comedy's Five Years Left and Tour Dates
from #205 - Well, LA Was Fun | The Tim Dillon Show · #205
6 min
Recording a day later, Tim discusses Louis Gomez's theory that stand-up comedy has about five years before platforms crack down on it, then lists his upcoming tour dates in Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Cleveland, and Ontario, plus mask/mandate flip-flopping during COVID.
- Tim and the crew are digging up old podcast clips from Joey Diaz and Brogan to see how many people they can implicate—this is how society emerged from quarantine.
- People on TV promised we'd come out of quarantine stronger and refocus on what matters: family, health, and what Joey Diaz said on a podcast in 2011.
- Louis Gomez told Tim comedy has five years left in the business before the type of comedy they do gets caught in the crosshairs of Google and YouTube.
- Younger people don't want comedy that might upset anybody, and Tim has no interest in doing the type of comedy younger people want right now.
- Tim announces tour dates: Sacramento Punchline July 31st through August 1st, Wiseguys in Salt Lake City August 7th and 8th, Cleveland Hilarities August 13th through 15th, and Ontario Improv August 27th through 30th.
- Multiple reversals on virus information: surfaces, asymptomatic transmission, mortality rates, and ventilators have all been revised or walked back.
- People treat new health information as dogma, then a week later realize it wasn't true and pretend it never happened—like when protests started and everyone forgot they weren't supposed to gather in groups of thousands.