rant · moment 4 of 27
The Comedy Store Documentary and Dead Legends Talking PC Culture
from #229 - Blankets and Bug Chasers | The Tim Dillon Show · #229
5 min
Tim tears into the Showtime Comedy Store documentary, mocking Mike Binder's self-focus, the absurdity of elderly legends fretting over 'PC culture' mid-pandemic, and argues stand-up specials feel less interesting than TikTok documentaries.
- Tim watched the Comedy Store documentary on Showtime and found parts well-done and parts questionable.
- The episode featured Whitney, Rogan, Burr, Leno, and Annie Letterman taking COVID tests with masks before sitting down together.
- Mike Binder's documentary is mostly about his own journey with just splashes of Kenneth Hagin here and there.
- Tim was passed at the Comedy Store a few weeks after the main shoot, around the time the pandemic was happening.
- Mike Binder asks the comedians what's going on with PC culture while they're in the middle of a pandemic.
- Everyone in the documentary is about 75 years old, and stand-up doesn't feel that hot right now.
- Tim likes stand-up partly because it's a dead art, and the documentary feels like a museum or mausoleum.
- A friend asked Tim if a documentary about TikTok kids would be more interesting than one about comedians, and he said yes immediately.
- PC culture isn't even real anymore—it's over, and Tim had Candace Owens on knowing people would get mad.
- Comedians whining about PC culture makes them look weak; Tim brings on people to ruffle feathers, not history teachers nobody cares about.
- Every podcast has been about this PC culture whining and only this, so Tim turned off the documentary after a few minutes.
- Tim questions why these old comedians can't just die and go away instead of everyone having to worship them.
- Tim respects the roads these comedians paved, but the priority now has to be being funny.
Mike BinderCandace OwensJay LenoThe Comedy StoreShowtimeDavid BurrWhitney CummingsAnnieLetterman