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Bo Burnham... Bowen Yang's SNL Anti-Asian Hate Sketch
from #245 - It's Saturday Night! | The Tim Dillon Show · #245
3 min
Tim discusses Bowen Yang being brought onto SNL to address anti-Asian hate crimes and questions the diversity history of the show and his own ambivalence about the segment.
- Getting out of a cult means you drink poison, fly a plane into a building, strap on a suicide vest—there's no other way out unless you do massive deprogramming.
- Getting fired from Robot Chicken and staying homeless to make a point: Tim questions whether the person involved thinks she should have just kept quiet.
- Shane got piled on, got death threats, his family suffered—Tim asks if losing the job isn't enough without revisiting it every year.
- The anti-Asian hate crime that both Shane and Ellery are responsible for: Tim says it's 50-50 between them.
- The show "I Don't Think So, Honey" featured alternative comics—lots of them gay, white, rich—doing a minute of material because they're not fans of the work.
- Tim wonders why any sober, sane human being would be a stand-up comedian, especially a gay guy who's dealt with abuse his whole life.
- When a gay man comes out of the closet, he'd rather go to Miami to do coke and party than entertain people in shitholes across America—and Tim questions if he's wrong.
- Bowen Yang does an anti-Asian hate crime sketch on SNL and Twitter treats it as the biggest thing, though there's no evidence it was actually an anti-Asian attack.
Bowen YangSaturday Night LiveI Don't Think So HoneyMatt RogersRobot Chicken