rant · moment 4 of 19
Comedians Performing in Parking Lots and Imaginary Gatekeepers
from #208 - Let's Have A Party | The Tim Dillon Show · #208
4 min
Tim mocks comedians doing shows on porches and in parking lots during the pandemic, then responds to a female comic's tweet about industry 'gatekeepers,' arguing there are no gatekeepers left, just the internet.
- Stop blaming imaginary gatekeepers for your lack of success in comedy.
- Female comics complain online about gatekeepers, but the real gatekeeper is the internet itself—your phone.
- Tim argues some comedians just aren't being funny and blame an imaginary person instead of taking responsibility.
- Do something that actually makes other people laugh, and that might get you where you want to go.
- Male comedians have the same gatekeeping complaints, and Tim knows male comics who are losers performing on literal piles of compost.
- A female comedian tweeted about gatekeepers, but there are no gatekeepers—figure it out online or don't.
- Cameron Cass Keegan's pinned tweet jokes that a 'real job' is one you don't enjoy until you can afford a creative one.
- Society shouldn't subsidize delusions; if you think you're a model or artist, you don't have the right to enjoy your job immediately.
- The Zoomer generation has some right ideas but lacks the grit and determination to make them reality.
- Tim doesn't criticize TikTok because it's nineteen-year-old kids on the platform, not his place to judge it.
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