Interview · moment 42 of 42
The Joy of Figuring Out a Joke and the Group Chat With Comedy's Funniest People
from An American Royal with Bert Kreischer | The Tim Dillon Show #341 · #341
10 min
Guest
Bert describes his favorite feeling in comedy as the moment he figures out how to fix a bit (like finding the ending line for The Machine's Russia story), then closes by describing his running group text with Jim Norton, Dan Soder, Ari Shaffir, Sal Vulcano, and Nate Bargatze full of inside jokes.
- Tim observes that royal family members are inbred.
- Prince Philip would arrive at islands and demand to see light-skinned women to sleep with first.
- Tim once told someone having panic attacks that today is the best it will ever be, because they're making money and no one forced them to quit drinking.
- Tim compares himself to a royal: he travels with a cavalry, owns his own chariot, is received by adoring masses, and drinks wine whenever he wants.
- Americans have a fifth grade reading level, which is how Tim has figured out how to be an American royal.
- The most intense podcast Tim ever did was with Alex Jones and Joe Rogan a week before the election during the pandemic in Austin.
- An older Black jazz musician told a young white jazz kid at Smalls in New York: you better love the music, because everything else is ancillary.
- The moment Tim loves most in stand-up isn't killing with a bit, it's the moment right before when he figures out how to say it differently and knows it will murder next time.
- Tim demonstrates with a story about finding the ending to the machine bit: instead of a generic punchline, he had the character spit vodka in someone's face and say this is Russia.
- Tim's closest friends are literally the funniest people in the world, and they're on a text thread called fuck where they only write we're not there yet and I'm on my way.
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