Interview · moment 7 of 42
The $100,000 Raymond James Stadium Bet and Comic Solidarity
from An American Royal with Bert Kreischer | The Tim Dillon Show #341 · #341
5 min
Guest
Bert reveals a bet that he'd never sell out Raymond James Stadium, discusses how comics helping each other blow up benefits everyone, and tells the story of realizing via Tom Segura's pay how far behind he was early in his career.
- Tim made a $100,000 bet that he would never perform at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, though he thinks it will never happen.
- His comedy special The Machine comes out Memorial Day weekend, and if it does well, a Tim Dillon movie will follow next summer.
- When other comics succeed, it helps everyone in comedy — no one should get jealous of other comics doing well.
- Tim remembers seeing Joe Coy post about his tour bus inside an arena and wanting the same thing, though it usually only happens during tornadoes.
- When Tom Segura blew up, Tim realized he was way more successful but they remained friends without a podcast together.
- Tom was getting paid $20,000 per show at Oddball while Tim only made $2,000 a weekend and had to cover his own travel and hotel.
- Tim had to mentally prepare himself to hear Tom's much higher pay rate, sitting at his desk and deciding what number he could handle without ruining their friendship.
- Tim drove himself to create Fully Loaded because he had a grudge about being kicked off the Funny or Die festival as a younger comic.
- The real reason he got cut from Funny or Die was that he didn't draw big names and they wanted to save money by giving his slot to a bigger comic.
- Everything Tim is doing now is in-house, which he believes is the direction comedy is heading.
- He paraphrases common industry advice: be smart, don't start habits, kick them before they kick you, and remember all the phases you've heard a hundred times.
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