rant · moment 18 of 24
Retiring 'Cancel Your Family' Tour and Who Should Voice Cleveland
from #206 - Turn Yourselves In | The Tim Dillon Show · #206
4 min
He announces renaming his tour from 'Cancel Your Family' to 'Life in the Big City,' then debates who could replace Mike Henry as Cleveland, riffing on the character's essential whiteness despite being black.
- Everything's too tight; people need to toughen up and bring enjoyment back.
- The word 'trauma' gets fetishized and misapplied—it should be reserved for soldiers and abuse survivors, not people offended at open mics.
- Who should voice Cleveland Brown now that the original actor is gone?
- Cleveland is essentially a white voice that Black comedians do—a fat, suburban, whiny loser, not a cool Black guy.
- Tim describes the character: a lactating old white man driving through Home Depot, farting, eating drive-thru food—that's the Cleveland we picture.
- The real fight shouldn't be over recasting; it should be making better shows that Black audiences actually want to watch.
- Shows like 'The Nightly Show' bombed with everyone regardless of race because they were just bad.