Interview · moment 27 of 42
Sending Shane Torres to 'Promo Camp'
from An American Royal with Bert Kreischer | The Tim Dillon Show #341 · #341
4 min
Guest
Bert describes trying to convince reluctant comic Shane Torres to embrace self-promotion, using the 'tree falls in the woods' analogy, and jokes about leaning into the shamelessness of promotion.
- Tim explains his resentment of people who didn't know he existed before meeting them.
- Shane Torres describes making cringe submission tapes with cool opening music, thinking bookers would like it.
- Tim makes a comparison: beautiful women in comedy get scooped up immediately, whereas he was allowed to be mediocre for years.
- Chelsea Handler cited as an exception—beautiful but was a 'gangster' on stage early on.
- Shane Torres got lucky being a dude who could develop for 22 years before landing the 'hot chick moment.'
- Comics blow up from viral videos but aren't ready, similar to Last Comic Standing winners who can't sustain an hour.
- Tim asks if the current comedy boom will contract once the cool kids start hating comedians.
- Tim celebrates that comedy needs to be hated by the cool crowd—compares it to Nirvana telling MTV to screw themselves.
- For art to stay cool, young comedians need to reject the arena comic path and disrupt the establishment.