Interview · moment 10 of 26
Fake On-Set Scandal Pitch and Niche YouTube Communities
from Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343 · #343
2 min
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They riff on staging fake scandalous camera moments (Mulvaney fights/hookups) to go viral, and how oversaturated micro-communities on YouTube (like fishing content) make breaking through nearly impossible.
- Tim pitches a fake on-set scandal: a rogue cameraman catches de Stefano and Dylan Mulvaney together, then days later captures a violent altercation.
- Without manufactured controversy, content gets buried because there's so much material on YouTube now that audiences fragment into niche communities.
- Tim wrote and starred in a fishing show sketch at SNL before his last appearance, featuring Tracy as a character from To Kill a Mockingbird.
- The sketch involved Tim as a fishing show host interrogating Tracy about looking in a neighbor's window, with a setup mimicking the courtroom drama.
- Jim Breuer played a redneck sheriff in the sketch, with Daryl as the father, and the comedy worked well enough that it got cut after dress rehearsal.
- Young Britney Spears appeared in the sketch as a girl and performed well in it.
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