Interview · moment 8 of 24
Boomer Selfishness and Humor Born From Pain
from #293 - Fat Activism with Jessica Kirson | The Tim Dillon Show · #293
2 min
Guest
Jessica delivers an extended riff on the Boomer generation's selfishness despite easy circumstances, then ties her own painful upbringing to her belief that the funniest comics have suffered the most.
- Tim was raised by the worst generation on earth — boomers conducted an exhaustive survey, and a lot of them were terribly selfish people.
- Boomers' entire lives have been a struggle in their minds, even though houses were cheap, cars were cheap, and the land was theirs to pillage.
- The boomer generation believed kids were obstacles to their own fulfillment, and their fulfillment involved golf and wine.
- They were hippies who turned hard away from that culture, keeping the self-focused part but losing all the spirituality and becoming very selfish people.
- Regarding his own parents, Tim says the main thing is they probably shouldn't have been parents.
- His parents have let him know that a lot of what happened was his fault — which he now recognizes as horrific.
- Tim believes he's funny because he went through so much pain, and that humor definitely comes from pain.