Interview · moment 33 of 33
Getting Cut from Hot Ones and a Rough Acting Gig
from The Joe Rogan Experience | #330 · #330
4 min
Guest
Tim discusses being dropped from a Hot Ones booking, then recounts a tense acting experience where a director was frustrated with his inconsistent prop handling across takes, and muses about whether he'd want to pursue more acting roles.
- Tim on why he wouldn't take a five-month acting gig even if CAA said it would open doors.
- Podcasting and stand-up are the only things Tim feels genuinely good at because he actually worked at them.
- The problem with being too free as a comedian: directors become less excited about you once you've developed your own audience.
- Tim would want any movie role to be a cult classic, not a marquee performance like Bert Kreischer's 'The Machine.'
- Tim pitches himself as playing a corrupt mortgage guy—but only far enough past 2008 that people aren't angry anymore.
- Tim claims he's rehabilitated the image of subprime mortgage sales people through his comedy.
- Borrowers in the 2008 crisis weren't victims—they were given money and wanted it, and everyone played the game until the chairs ran out.
- Tim bought a house at 22 with no money, and it lost $350,000 in value when he sold it five years later.
- Tim wouldn't sell someone something he wouldn't sell himself—he was a cocaine addict who wanted a house.
- After losing his house, Tim moved into a dump and did stand-up for three years, which were the best years of his life.