rant · moment 15 of 28
Talent Agents Are Black Sheep, and the Entourage Me Too Season
from #270 - Havana Syndrome | The Tim Dillon Show · #270
4 min
Tim riffs on how talent agents are the underachieving black sheep of wealthy families, no longer glamorous like Ari Gold, and imagines a MeToo-era season of Entourage where Ari has to manage Vince's old scandals.
- Talent agents are mostly black sheep from wealthy families whose siblings became surgeons, finance executives, and academics.
- Modern agents spend their time routing tours for 16-year-old TikTokers instead of holding prestigious positions like they used to.
- Only about four agents left operate like Ari Gold from Entourage; the rest are terrified due to Me Too allegations.
- Today's agents are constantly paranoid, asking themselves if their client said something to a woman on video or raped someone in college.
- The perfect Entourage season would have been Ari Gold dealing with Me Too accusations from Vince and the gang.
- In the bit, Ari panics about a mole at the LA Times while trying to manage the Me Too crisis with instructions to send the woman flowers and texts.
- Entourage made Hollywood look fun because one guy gets famous and brings his three friends along to experience the lifestyle.
- TikTok and social media kids follow the same pattern: someone gets famous, lives with their friends, throws parties, makes money, then the cycle should end but they keep hanging on.
- The friend group dynamic that defined an era of entertainment no longer works the same way.
Ari Goldtalent agentsEntourageGoldman SachsJohns Hopkins