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Hired at SNL for a George Floyd Cook-Off Sketch

from #274 - Tourettes Gang | The Tim Dillon Show · #274

2 min

Tim jokes he's been hired at SNL to write a sketch mocking activism-as-performance via a George Floyd-themed cooking competition, claiming the entire cast is walking out over it.

In this bit7 moments
  • Tim announces he's been hired at SNL but the network hasn't announced it yet.
  • The sketch Tim pitched: a George Floyd cook-off where people make food to honor his memory.
  • The sketch's actual target is activists who promote themselves rather than the causes they claim to support.
  • Tim explains the premise: a cooking competition where contestants show their activism through food and accuse each other of racism and cultural appropriation.
  • SNL is making the George Floyd cook-off as the opening sketch.
  • The entire SNL cast walked out in protest, so it's just Tim and Lauren against everyone else.
  • Tim invites people to DM him or show up at SNL if they want to be in the sketch.
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