Interview · moment 10 of 24
A Divided Comedy Community and Being the Biggest Gay Comic
from #293 - Fat Activism with Jessica Kirson | The Tim Dillon Show · #293
4 min
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They discuss how comics have become balkanized by identity, Jessica's experience with homophobia on the road versus in Long Island, and the claim that Tim is arguably the biggest openly gay male stand-up comic ever.
- Tim argues the comedy community is now divided by identity rather than united by the shared identity of being a comic.
- Comics have started going at each other, which Tim says never happened during his entire career.
- Tim claims he could hate someone's act and want them to die, but still believes they have the right to say it.
- Tim encounters homophobia on the road, particularly from religious audiences, though it's decreased significantly since he started.
- There's never been a big gay male stand-up comic before Tim, making him by far the biggest in history.
- Mario Cantone is an actor rather than a stand-up comedian, so Tim doesn't count him in the same category.