Interview · moment 23 of 29
Crying Into a Blizzard After Failed Sesame Street Auditions
from Ladies Who Lunch w/ Chelcie Lynn and Libbie Higgins | The Tim Dillon Show #311 · #311
2 min
Guest
Tim recounts his childhood acting auditions (including Sesame Street appearances), flubbing tryouts, and crying into a Dairy Queen Blizzard after a meltdown that shamed his grandmother.
- Tim was an actor from age six to twelve, appearing on Sesame Street multiple times and auditioning for various roles he never booked.
- His mother would take him out of school for auditions in the city; when he bombed, they'd go to the Penn Station Dairy Queen afterward.
- Tim would sometimes sit in the Dairy Queen chair and cry into his Blizzard while eating it after a failed audition.
- A newly arrived Indian man made the wrong Blizzard; Tim screamed, threw it in the garbage and missed, splattering it everywhere.
- The worker laughed at Tim's meltdown, unsure how to respond to the tantrum.
- His grandmother was present and repeatedly told him: 'I'm ashamed of you.'
- Tim sat in the Long Island Railroad waiting room covered in Blizzard, crying.
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