Interview · moment 6 of 18
Scotty's Steakhouse, Ross Perot Bits, and the Fake Band Gig
from "Bros" | The Tim Dillon Show #318 (ft. Greg Stone) · #318
5 min
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Greg recounts bombing at low-rent gigs: a comedian doing an outdated Ross Perot bit, a one-armed club promoter, a gig pretending to be a cover band before revealing they were comedians, and comedians doing racial-accent bits including a white guy doing a Chinese accent.
- Tim describes a fake band gig where the audience was disappointed when they started playing comedy instead of taking song requests.
- One of the band members lost his arm shooting up, not in Vietnam as he claimed.
- A comedian in the band said Jon Stewart couldn't fill Biloxi, Mississippi, exemplifying how comedians justify their own limitations.
- Tim worked with a comedian at Scotty's Steakhouse who does a Chinese accent bit and then breaks character to say he's not actually Chinese.
- Another white comedian does a Chinese accent routine with some kind of twist ending that Tim can't quite remember.
- The level of racist and inappropriate material Tim saw on Long Island stages was far beyond what current LA comedians experience.
- Joey the Vulgar Fireman would get on stage and do extremely offensive material, claiming he just calls things like he sees them.
- Dr. Dirty is actually funny despite being wildly inappropriate, doing bits about Obamacare and Thanksgiving while playing piano.
- Tim pitches what the Bros movie should have been: gentrifying gay guys who are racist, complaining on the Citizen app.
- Movie trailers now need to be so outrageous that audiences have to say 'I can't believe they made this' or they won't draw people to theaters.
- Tim notes that if people aren't shocked enough to say they can't believe a movie was made, they won't go see it.
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