rant · moment 10 of 41
Comedy Clubs as Carnival Sideshows
from #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show · #247
2 min
Tim compares comedy club owners and bookers to old carnival barkers exploiting bearded ladies, tying it to pandemic-era tent shows replacing normal club structure.
- Comedy club owners and bookers are the same carnival carnies who used to sell tickets to bearded ladies and conjoined twins outside tents.
- Tim appreciated the pandemic forcing comedy clubs to take their circus outside literally, doing shows in tents like a traveling carnival.
- Comics like his ex-roommate are part of American entertainment history, the type who would have worked the Depression-era dust bowl carnival circuit.
- Club owners and bookers treat comics like carnival overseers whipping bearded ladies—welcoming them to sit at a water station to gossip with waitresses.
Jay OckersonTim Warner