Interview · moment 32 of 42
LA Is Collapsing and New Yorkers Trashing Their Own City
from An American Royal with Bert Kreischer | The Tim Dillon Show #341 · #341
2 min
Guest
They discuss loving that LA is falling apart because it removes the exhausting 'air of inevitability,' comparing it to how real New Yorkers always trash their own city.
- Tim realized he had to tell his own stories and promote himself or no one would do it for him.
- His technique: casually drop a wild claim like "I fought a bear one time" and let the listener ask for the full story.
- When starting comedy, he was too cool for self-promotion, but eventually realized it's unavoidable.
- Shane Torres is a brilliant comic who refuses to get comfortable on camera, acting like an 80-year-old aunt avoiding the lens.
- The tree-in-the-woods problem: Shane's a great comic, but people won't search him out or promote themselves without help.
- If Shane takes charge of promotion, audiences discover his comedy and fall in love with him instead of never finding him.
- Tim's approach to promotion's inherent humiliation: lean into the pig aspect and just show people where the pig is.