Interview · moment 14 of 23
Don't Look Up and Hollywood's Manufactured Importance
from The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363 · #363
2 min
Guest
Tim criticizes the film Don't Look Up for being self-important, describing watching it with Katie and his mom and turning it off, then contrasting it with celebrities publicly insisting it's essential viewing.
- Tim and Katie turned off Don't Look Up partway through because they thought it sucked.
- Celebrities like Amy Schumer pushed the film as important and brilliant right after release.
- Famous people need Don't Look Up to be important because otherwise it exposes how disconnected they are.
- It's a mutual back-scratching arrangement where celebrities promote each other's work as necessary viewing.
- Tim imagines Amy Schumer doing Willy Wonka from a female perspective and wanting McKay's crew to call it essential.
- Tim predicts comedy will return to being funny instead of message-driven after the strike.
- Audiences are getting sick of messaging and just want funny material.
- Groucho Marx wasn't trying to show depth—he was just being funny.
Amy SchumerGroucho Marx