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Waiting Your Turn at the Comedy Store and Jeremy Piven's Redemption Arc
from #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show · #247
2 min
Tim recalls resentment over comedy club seniority systems, then jokes about Jeremy Piven and Michael Rapaport using stand-up as refuge after Me Too controversies.
- Tim's old Comedy Store spots were 11:30pm, decent for someone newly passed, but comics who'd been around longer got better slots regardless of what they were doing.
- The club rewarded pure seniority—guys who'd been there 15 years with no podcast, TV work, or outside success just because they "put in the time."
- Jeremy Piven and Michael Rappaport are different because they're waiting to actually get good before taking weekend spots.
- Tim credits Jeremy Piven with getting him into stand-up, even though Piven wasn't technically as skilled as some Tuesday night comics at the club.
- Seeing Jeremy Piven on stage makes you wonder what happened to him, and Tim knows Piven wanted to do the podcast instead.
Jeremy PivenMichael Rappaport