Places/place
Brooklyn
2016-07-12, 1 mention2016-09-06, 3 mentions2016-11-22, 1 mention2016-12-13, 1 mention2017-01-24, 1 mention2017-03-21, 1 mention2017-04-04, 1 mention2017-04-25, 1 mention2017-09-17, 1 mention2017-12-18, 1 mention2018-04-10, 1 mention2018-04-18, 1 mention2018-05-16, 1 mention2018-06-27, 1 mention2018-07-19, 1 mention2018-08-09, 1 mention2018-08-16, 1 mention2018-08-30, 2 mentions2018-09-13, 2 mentions2018-11-16, 1 mention2019-02-02, 2 mentions2019-05-19, 1 mention2019-07-28, 2 mentions2019-12-22, 1 mention2019-12-29, 1 mention2020-05-24, 1 mention2020-06-21, 1 mention2020-07-12, 1 mention2021-08-29, 1 mention2022-07-31, 1 mention2022-10-02, 1 mention2023-04-09, 1 mention2023-04-23, 1 mention2024-02-03, 1 mention2025-03-22, 1 mention2025-07-26, 1 mention2026-04-18, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He treats Brooklyn mainly as shorthand for a strain of humorless, self-serious hipster culture — comedians who are really failed theater kids 1:02:10, coffee shops plastered with "end racism" signs where everyone types furiously on a MacBook 56:24, and people who "don't seem fun" 1:46. He calls Brooklyn circa 2012 "one of the worst places ever in history" 22:19.
Beyond that recurring gripe, most mentions are just incidental — the setting for a Netflix show 2:13, a location in a shooting-stats rundown 52:30, the borough he happened to be living in during the pandemic 34:35, or the backdrop to stories like a woman who catfished her way through Pakistan 2:08 and a mob-run 1980s comedy club audition 34:25. He occasionally sets it against Queens or Staten Island as having more authentic, mom-and-pop character 1:37:58, but mostly it functions as a punchline rather than a considered position.
Every Reference (43)
"right. Fat pigs. I did a lot of Long Island business. I did some Brooklyn business. I did a lot of Long Island. If you were there longer,"
Ray's Worst Mortgage Deals: Dying Fathers, Cat Hoarders, and Howie's Fake APR — Tim Dillon Is Going To Hell Premieres on GaS Digital+530s into the segment"new york i love it you view you grown up here absolute born in brooklyn uh... nineteen sixty nine forty six and uh... spent my entire"
Ralph's Mom Ran a Brooklyn Cabaret and Meeting Andy Kaufman — Antiseptic New York+169s into the segment"antiseptic you know i mean everything is the same you know i go to brooklyn i kid around uh... with the audiences there i see you guys are"
Antiseptic New York, Bohemian's Secret Reservations, and Rao's — Antiseptic New York+19s into the segment"smarts you know like i think that too growing up being raised in Brooklyn where there were just there were gangs all over my neighborhood,"
"just, these people are monsters. Yeah, I mean, where I grew up in Brooklyn, also same thing, just like really stupid. You grew up where,"
"bit to kind of Get very sensitive Brooklyn yes, kind of like Brooklyn they and they don't have as much patience for And they just,"
NATO Protects Canada, and the Air Canada Flight Cancellation Nightmare — We Are The News+10s into the segment"a rush to get out of my place, right? Because I was moving to Brooklyn. Right. I had put the going to Brooklyn. I quit the jail, quit"
"a traditionally Greek area maybe Armenian and they got one in Brooklyn. They got one in Astoria and they delete you know, they're open"
"living in Brooklyn? Yeah, I don't really feel like I have this Brooklyn experience. We're never going to have any experiences. Yeah."
"staying I'm not gonna move out to the island I'm just gonna stay in Brooklyn and raise my kids got them titty bar around here, you know, I"
Long Island Real Estate Absurdity and the Opiate Epidemic — Thoughtless Animal+224s into the segment"Brooklyn. Oh yeah okay. I was different. Okay. So you grew up in Brooklyn so you weren't you weren't like in the Staten Island crew."
"did you grow up in Staten Island or the Jersey? In Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, okay. But you were part of an Italian family, right? You guys"
"Long Island City, Astoria, things like that. Certain parts of Brooklyn, these things are showing no signs of depression and prices at"
NYC Real Estate: Gentrification and the Outer Boroughs — Prove It, You Dumb Fuck!+33s into the segment"mean, it's almost as bad as I sat next to this one chick from Brooklyn. It was a music manager for six and a half hour flight to LA."
"went further this time. We went further. I love those areas in Brooklyn, man. They are ex... They're exotic. They feel exotic. Yeah,"
"you if they disagree with something you say yeah if you go to Brooklyn for sure yeah I mean it's kind of ridiculous. Yeah, it's pretty"
Luke the Intern: Merch Ideas and the Poisoned Filipino Cats Story — The Men Behind The Boys+338s into the segment"for you, huh? Conspiracies. So yeah, I walked all the way from Brooklyn over the Williamsburg Bridge, right? Yeah. And then I walked"
Ryan's 30-Mile NYC Walkabout Looking for Crack and Trannies — Tin Foil Hat and Tim at Skankfest+79s into the segment"hospital, whatever. If you try to get a fucking yellow cab in Brooklyn before or during Uber, like it was never a fucking thing. In"
"I'm not trying to be SJW Ray over here, but if you walk around Brooklyn, Bushwick, or Williamsburg, there's just like, it's a new thing,"
Go Alone: The Philosophy of Solo Dining and Teenage Weed Circles — The Middle Of The End+92s into the segment"world? I mean, that's that's a lot of what we're around people in Brooklyn and a lot of these places that are just not right funny At all."
Trolling the Biker Facebook Group and Money vs. Art — Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine)+165s into the segment"group of people that are like, oh, we stuck it out. We live in Brooklyn. You know what I mean? Which you have to travel to see that because"
Brooklyn Wedding Guy, Pizza Joints, and Long Island Seafood Plans — Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine)+10s into the segment"interesting thing. Where were you being found out? I was in my house in Brooklyn. I was sleeping. My ex-girlfriend of six years, at the time She"
"good argument to die anywhere else Yeah, I'm not gonna die in Brooklyn. Yeah, where I'm watching 19 year olds at the dude slam poetry"
Long Island Contentment, Succession, and Future Plans — The Pauper Is Just Working+105s into the segment"businesses. They're gonna have their own but that's why fucking Brooklyn sucks now Being we've been here Williamsburg for years going"
Gentrification, Immigrant Businesses, and the Death of Queens' Character — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+14s into the segment"Because Brooklyn kind of has those vibes a little bit. I think what the difference"
Long Island vs. Brooklyn, and Naked Kids at a Park Slope Birthday Party — Bay Ridge Boys+2s into the segment"passed away, the guy who ran the funeral home on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn, she's great. So, this is great. Let me tell you something."
"see your point of view no no there will you said today about Brooklyn was great you're like these people don't seem fun no it doesn't"
Pronouns in Bios and the Great Flattening — Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas)+99s into the segment"mean that's great it's like every third [ __ ] person you mean Brooklyn is a goddamn comedian yeah you're all terrible yeah you're all"
"this part of Queens has more of the old New York right then really any part of Manhattan and most parts of Brooklyn unless you really go out to like Brighton Beach or whatever"
"own those places you're much more likely to find in Queens or Brooklyn or Staten Island oh they're all over this yeah so those are the"
Staten Island Roots and Reliable Office Systems — #179 - Sal Vulcano | The Tim Dillon Show+200s into the segment"suburbs so true boomer like if you're in New York or Queens or Brooklyn or even like if you're in LA to an extent even though it's the"
Boomers, Suburbs, and the Auto Lobby's American Dream — #180 - History Hyenas | The Tim Dillon Show+81s into the segment"pans now for nurses that can't hear them yeah I mean I live in Brooklyn I'm here apparently they cheer every day I've ever heard this"
Long Island Patriotism and Pandemic Numbness in New York — #201 - A Sense Of Time (ft. Ray Kump) | The Tim Dillon Show+125s into the segment"and and he plays a serial killer and the first episode is in Brooklyn the first season is in Brooklyn and the second season is in Los"
The Netflix Show 'You' and Chris D'Elia's Character — #205 - Well, LA Was Fun | The Tim Dillon Show+44s into the segment"man was fatally shot and another man wounded early Sunday in Brooklyn part of a violent weekend spree that saw 64 people shot in New"
New York City Shootings and the Case for Cutting Police Funding — #208 - Let's Have A Party | The Tim Dillon Show+36s into the segment"There's something about the wideeyed nature of Austin that reminds you of Brooklyn circa 2012. One of the worst places ever in history."
Leaving Austin, Turning 36, and Earning the Right to Not Be Adaptable — #266 - Lightfoot Strikes Twice | The Tim Dillon Show+593s into the segment"It reminds me of being in a more friendly, more cleaner times Brooklyn." Man, here's the deal and people are going to get upset with"
Sarah Lupton the Life Coach in Mexico City — The Life Coach | The Tim Dillon Show #309+302s into the segment"mean in a gas but it is it's just as many people and it's right Brooklyn but it sounds like a better city than Manhattan really not to"
The Bronx, Gentrification, and Urban Planning Failures — Louis CK | The Tim Dillon Show #317+34s into the segment"everybody had a PBR a beard New Balance sneakers they were all in Brooklyn or Echo Park yeah you couldn't get on TV unless they loved you"
Regional Promo Tricks and Building a Thumbprint — An American Royal with Bert Kreischer | The Tim Dillon Show #341+1s into the segment"you the great pip story so I go to Pips to audition I'm from Brooklyn I think I might have been there once as an audience member because"
Auditioning at Pips and the Mob-Run Brooklyn Comedy Scene — Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343+46s into the segment"really funny comedian I started with used to say that people in Brooklyn all act like um extra or they all dress like extras from The"
Coffee in Brooklyn and the Beheading Story — The Diaper Spa | The Tim Dillon Show #380+2s into the segment"nightmare. Did you Did you cover the story of the chick from Brooklyn who was in Pakistan? She was the story in Pakistan for like you"
The Brooklyn Woman Who Catfished Pakistan for $50,000 — Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436+26s into the segment"better location. But he moves to Brooklyn. Okay. He moves to Brooklyn. He says, "Fuck it. I'm gonna start moving to Brooklyn. I'm going"
Carolyn and Brett: A Parable of Radicalization — Gaza Famine, Brigitte's Hog, & The Happiness Survey | The Tim Dillon Show #455+775s into the segment"Vanderbilt, whatever. The people that move to New York, that move to Brooklyn, that get a job at a startup, that work in fintech, are being"
Nancy, Cliff, and the Mass Layoff Email — Eric Swalwell, The Great Layoff, & We Endorse Katie Porter | The Tim Dillon Show #492+150s into the segment