rant · moment 12 of 13
Beacon Theater Sellout and Refusing to Be Sentimental
from #266 - Lightfoot Strikes Twice | The Tim Dillon Show · #266
8 min
Tim announces upcoming UK shows and a near-sold-out Beacon Theater show in New York, insists he won't get emotional or thank fans for a fake sense of togetherness, and imagines himself eventually going out by brandishing a gun in a diner.
- The Beacon Theater in New York City is almost sold out.
- His only interest is making people laugh and occasionally think, not offering vague motivational statements that might inspire someone to commit violence.
- It is cool to have gone from starting comedy eleven years ago in a Long Island coffee house to selling out the Beacon Theater.
- Tim refuses to thank the audience because they had nothing to do with it—only Ben did; the relationship is transactional, not a shared journey.
- The interaction should make sense: audience gives money, Tim gives content, everyone moves on, maybe they meet in real life.
- There will be no emotional moment during the show where Tim expresses gratitude.
- In a few years he will inevitably end up brandishing a gun in a diner, so it would be ridiculous to get emotional at the Beacon and tell everyone he loves them.
- Social media personalities claim audiences built something with them, but Tim's audience listens because they're fed up with that false intimacy.
- Tim wishes the Beacon Theater was located somewhere other than New York so the Upper West Side crowd would have to travel, and he jokes about confronting them in a diner with a gun.
- Tim describes a dark fantasy ending: walking into a diner where audiences are discussing his work, grabbing their hand with a gun, claiming they built it together, then shooting himself into their food.