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Getting Inducted Into the Harvard Lampoon
from Tim Dillon & His A.I. Friends | The Tim Dillon Show #442 · #442
3 min
Tim recounts visiting Harvard to be inducted into the Lampoon, meeting smug but sweet economics majors who joke about studying "systems of control," and riffs on the private-equity-to-comedy career pipeline.
- Tim got inducted into the Harvard Lampoon after a friend from his Netflix talk show invited him to the organization.
- The Harvard Lampoon is a famous literary magazine that produced Conan O'Brien, Colin Jost, and Simpsons writers, but Tim thinks it's basically a frat now.
- One economics major told Tim his focus was on 'systems of control,' which Tim found hilarious.
- The kids at Harvard plan to work in private equity first, then pivot to comedy—the "famous private equity to comedy pipeline."
- Tim says if his kid went to Harvard and wanted to be a comedian, he would drown them.
- Harvard students are smug and a little out of touch; one asked Tim why he doesn't spend more time in LA.
- When Tim explained the entertainment industry is collapsing, a student didn't understand what he meant, citing Hacks as proof things are fine.
- Tim's response: Hacks employs about ten people, while the rest of writers are at home contemplating suicide.
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