Interview · moment 7 of 23
Hollywood, Comedy, and Trump-Era Cultural Conformity
from #259 - Independence Day with Glenn Greenwald | The Tim Dillon Show · #259
2 min
Guest
Tim asks how Greenwald deals with untrained pundits attacking him; Greenwald says mainstream comedy (Kimmel, Colbert) has become toothless resistance-liberal orthodoxy, and that Trump-era conformity has contaminated all of culture, including comedy and film.
- Tim traces his awareness trajectory: discovering the show about six months ago through Joe Rogan, then seeing grilling-weed content flood his social media everywhere.
- He realized there were still funny comedians—thought they'd all become Jimmy Kimmel types calling Jared Kushner names or Stephen Colbert doing crude Nancy Pelosi impressions about Trump.
- Mainstream comedy in the US is now pathetic, fear-driven, and trapped in stale, primitive orthodoxies—not only unfunny but completely corrupted.
- The corruption extends beyond comedy to every aspect of culture: films, art, and everything has been contaminated by the Trump years in a way few people have escaped.
- Watching any Hollywood escapist thing—award shows, anything—delivers the same resistance-imbecilic Twitter content with no escape from it anymore.
mainstream comedy in the United StatesJimmy KimmelStephen ColbertJoe Rogan Experience