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Tim Dillon

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“Stop it. Listen, that guy was your intellectual capacity enjoying anything I do only underscores how truly fucked we are But thank you very much.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She said the lat, you could understand things as love that you, I think one of the last lines in the thing is people talking about their experiences in life, that could be love. Like, you know, laughter is love. Like, I feel like love and finding it wherever you could find it is why we're here. That's that connection and laughter can be love and, you know, figuring out, you know, something that makes life better for a lot of people can be love, you know, whether it's a vaccine or a technological advancement or whatever. Like, you know, all of those things, I think, can be that feeling. And I think that's what's important. It connects you to a larger frequency, you know?”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Love humor can be love, right? People laughing that that sound is kind of like Carolyn Knapp, who wrote a book called Drinking a Love Story, which is a really good book about not drinking, drinking and then not drinking.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a pretty good ride. I did a lot of things. Doing what you say is a part of it, I think. If you say you're going to do something, maybe doing it, that seems to be extrapolating the meaning of live question to like, you know, what did you come here to do? I think it goes down deep of like, who are you and what do you want? You know, what are you suited to do and what.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a cosmic kind of joke, kind of in a weird way, right? I mean, Joe said it the other day on maybe it was you saying that he was just like, you know, by the time you figure out what it is, you're out of here. You know, it's kind of interesting. Or you even start to figure out what it is, you're out of here. It's like, that's kind of funny. It's like you don't get enough time to truly, I think the meaning of life is just like. At the end of the day, do you feel it was time well spent? Was it time well spent? That's really what it is. If you look back, do you go, hey. It was time well spent.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then I think I should go to MIT I mean, I think I should give those nerds a piece of my mind. You should go to, I was in an Uber pool once with a kid from NIT, and I was eating this thing from Bova's Bakery. I forget what it was. It was like a... It's so good. I don't know. You don't know Bova's bakery, right? Yeah, it's in Boston's famous. I was eating a thing. I was like covered in chocolate. This kid, like this little nerd, like this little USB drive with feet was just staring at me and they just dropped him off at MIT and he like scurried away. Yeah. But that's a big school. Doesn't the NSA recruit out of there heavy, like MIT, places like that?”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, you have freedom. Me too. I have freedom. And we have the curse of too many choices. That's the thing. We have too many choices. We don't have somebody else going. What about, like, we don't have to justify our decisions to anyone So we can just kind of like let our minds run wild.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You could kind of live anywhere because, like, going out is such a big part of what city you live in, and you like the food there. Do you like the restaurants? Can you meet people, whatever. But it's like you really can just kind of.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absurdity of no one cares about Hollywood Starlets and actresses and actors, and everyone goes, hey, fuck you, even though they've won three Academy Awards. They're all being replaced by just mediocre dancer 15-year-olds. I mean, it's like there's something hilarious about this city, and it will burn in hell, but so will everything. So what are we talking about?”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's homelessness in Austin, there are problems in Austin. I mean, I think that, by the way, with the influx of very rich people to an area, sometimes that helps things, but sometimes it just makes things more polarizing. And it spots, puts a spotlight on those problems and makes those problems even bigger, right? So, I mean, I don't know that it's necessarily, it's hard to predict. I just know the LA right now is funny. It's funny that there's 15-year-old TikTokers making millions of dollars dancing in a house while the world burns. That is very funny.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think comedy suffered in New York and LA when everyone got super rich. Like, you know, it just wasn't as cool. It's still much more fun on the road. Still more fun to perform for people that want and need to laugh in strip malls than it is to perform for hedge fund managers and with their dates and Instagram models in LA. It's just what it is. Comedy on the road is much more fun. So maybe in the spirit of that, Austin becomes, but Austin is just colonized by tech pros and stuff. Like, yeah, I mean, sure, sure, it'll be fun and it'll be great. I think Joe's made LA a scene. So if anyone's going to make Austin a scene, it's Joe.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Austin will probably be a massive tech hub. Elon's there. It seems like everything about Austin says that it's going to be a massive tech hub. I just don't know if that means it'll be a massive comedy hub.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And also, everyone's making decisions now because we're literally in the midst of a pandemic we've never had before. Never had this before. Joe loved California up until the pandemic. He had problems with it. Like, we all have problems with it. There's a lot of benefits to being here.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really brilliant let him go. There's there's other people. This is the thing, it's like this is the fear thing. It's like, no, but all the brilliant people are leaving. There'll be other people and they'll fill their shoes. The way that they've done throughout history. And I think that New York and LA, listen, maybe in five to ten years, they're not the two cities. It would be real rough in five years when this pandemic's over for people in Australia to go, dude, you got to go to America and you got to visit Charleston and Austin. Yeah. Stop. Let's be adults here. Let's be adults. It's still going to be New York and LA for a while. LA is an absolute hellscape. But I don't think you're going to replace California with another place.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Lesbia place for comedy in LA, so it's going to be a place for comedy in New York. I mean, the question is how thriving of a comedy scene is Austin going to be. And Joe can probably make it one, but as of right now it isn't. So that would be him doing that”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. I mean, I don't think so immediately. I love Joe. I love what he's trying to do down there. I'm appreciative of everything that he's done for not only me, but for comedy in general. And I think as things happen in Austin and Unfold is such a political answer. But as things unfold, I will consider it more and more. But I mean, I think I got another year in LA.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, a lot of times I think I'm Amy Schumer, so I'm confused. I'm a detente with myself all the time. I don't love myself or hate myself. Addicts have a very bad problem where you can't just fall in love with yourself and you can't hate yourself. Both of them lead you to a negative place. You try to stay kind of even keel. I don't go like, hey man, you put out a video, you get all these views, things are great. You sold a bunch of tickets. Let's fucking go out. Like, maybe let's, hey, man, let's have that drink that you've been waiting for for 11 years. And I don't look at myself and go, you ate a burger yesterday, you're a piece of shit, you're horrible, you'll never, you know, get into the shape you want. Like, I try not to get too low or too high. Both of them are not good from my particular mind.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And listen, sometimes the best place you'll find is like when people are like, when did you feel really excited and alive? It's like doing nothing. You know, like that's the other thing. And I just wanted the simplest life and not have to do much. And I don't like doing anything. And I love laying around and going, wow, this guy looks good today. Gates goes to Scotland's good today. Let's shoot a missile into it. He wants to do shit, right? So it's like in between that and nothing is you can find something”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was a juror on that murder trial in Long Island, and the woman who's a DA, I'm like, you were born to do this. You were born to. Put murderers away, and this guy killed the mother of his children. He was a bad guy, but like, I was like, you are really good at what you do. She has a strong belief in whatever her moral code is and what her injustice and ethics are. And she wants to communicate that to people. She was very good at doing what she did. I don't know the facts of the case. I didn't really listen. He seemed guilty. So I just voted guilty. But I didn't really listen to her, but I heard the shape of her mouth was very bovine, like a cow and it conferred a certain level of expertise that I enjoyed.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A really good deal maker. It doesn't mean you're going to be Warren Buffett, but it might mean you're somebody who enjoys making deals all the time and things like that. Like if you're an entertainer, it might mean that you are an entertainer. It might mean that you are in the world of entertainment because you love it so much that if you lack the skill set to really pursue it on a degree, you just want to be like there's a thing inside of you that makes you what you are. I think I look at certain people and I go, you were born to be that thing.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The end of the day, it's like you're gonna, we get, there's, you know, I think one of my themes is that there's too much, we give the power, we think we have the power of choice has been elevated in our society to an unhealthy degree. I think people are, I think you could get really good at something, but you're born with a certain aptitude. It might be to be a deal maker, might be to be an athlete, it might be to be an artist, it might be to be a romantic and just fall in and out of love, in and out of love, in and out of love. It might be to be like a world traveler. But whatever you are, I think you are. I think that there's something about you that makes you something. And if you can figure it out and then refine, you're not going to be good at it per se. But if you're an athlete, it might not mean that you're going to be a great athlete in the history, but it might mean you're the best coach anyone's ever had or you're the person that builds a local scene for young athletes or whatever. If you are.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've had a lot, but a lot of mine could have sunk me. They sound like fun when I talk about them, but they actually could have sunk me. And they were all part of what made me funny, but I don't know. I would never tell anyone else to just light their life on fire and hope it works out on the other end. It would be pretty irresponsible. But hey,”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't listen to anyone. Don't listen to your parents. Don't listen to the gurus on the internet. Don't listen to me. Don't listen to anyone. Figure out where you feel the most alive. Where do you feel excited? Where does your pulse quicken? What do you feel matters? When you're in a situation, do you feel like it matters? What situation was that? What got you excited? What thing did you walk into where you looked around and were taken back and you're like, wow, this is amazing. And I'm filled with awe. If you configure out a life where you can excite yourself, you might not use drugs or alcohol or sex addiction or gambling or irresponsibility. You might not have to get your fucking kicks in very destructive places if you can get them in a productive place.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ignore everyone, make a few good friends truly have honest conversations with yourself about your When do you feel the most alive? Figure that out. When and how do you feel the most alive? Figure that out try to figure out a job or a career that can replicate that feeling.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would hope that that's part of it, and I hope that I continue to be, you say important, I say funny, but hopefully I continue to be a voice. And that's what I think when I think about death, I think about like, what do people come on earth to do? And I think I came, I think my main purpose on this planet, other than to experience whatever love or worthiness or whatever is to make, to entertain people. And there's a lot of people in comedy right now that are not entertainers. And that's really the problem. And they got into comedy sort of the way that, you know, you can walk into the wrong store in a mall and then not realize you're in the wrong store and try on a bunch of clothes and then go, fuck, I wasted my whole afternoon. But I think I've always kind of been an entertainer and that's what I want to do.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, like a highlight reel of just like these are like the best things that he's ever done or the best rants he's ever had, the best things, whatever.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Af I'm afraid of death. I don't like the idea of death, but I know it's happening. You know, it's going to happen eventually. Think about it. Think about it, I want to do some good stuff that people can look back at, and I think I'm proud of the show, where if people look back at the show, I don't know how comedy ages or whatever, but like, I think I put out a lot of stuff and I want to continue to put out stuff and I want to put out a few specials that people can look back at and go, oh, this guy was really funny in this really crazy, you know, he lived in the latter part of this century when all this shit was going on and he kind of made fun of it and he did something to make people's lives a little better just by having, you know, a few laughs, you know.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because she knew who I was and she didn't want to get in the way of me being a human being, a fully realized person at six. So that's probably the best thing a parent could do for a kid is let them be who they are. And my mother did that. So that, I mean, that's good. We ate too much fast food. There were negatives, but she did let me be.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because the part of them that you love and remember, a lot of cases is not evident or obvious. Now, my mother's still a loving person that I love, but the fun, her ability to be present in the moment and to not, you know, that is lost with the progression of realness so that you still love her. And I mean, again, you know, your parents, you know, the time horizons you have with your parents are unknown. People don't know. I have friends that their parents were in their lives for their entire life. And I have friends whose parents were in their life, but my mother was a very, she knew what I was. When I was a little kid, I was an actor. When I was like six to 12. My mother knew that I was a performer. She knew what I was and what I'd ultimately do. She recognized that in me. And when I said to her, I want to audition for shows. I want to be on stage. I want to be on this. I want to do this. She let me do it.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do. I do. I love her, but I also remember her that isn't her now. And when someone has mental illness that's severe, you make peace with their death before they die.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Then you have the junk gurus come in and go, like, let's diagnose your mental illness off Instagram. And it's like, that's not the move. Yeah.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Unpredictable. She's a live wire. Any of the words you would use to describe somebody who is a fucking lunatic, but you wouldn't say that. Right. She started experiencing symptoms probably early on in her life, but she also, I think, started really manifesting them when I was in my mid-teens, so like 14, 13, 14 area. And she got really, really bad. And then I think she was institutionalized about 10 years ago, a little over 10 years ago. And she could really no longer live on her own. She was unable to go to work. She was unable to function. So I visit her when I can. Obviously, I'm not New York. Whenever I go to New York, I visit her. She's aware of what I do, my career and everything like that. You know, she has good days and bad days. But, you know, mental illness is a thing. It's very tough. We don't talk about as a society people with mental problems don't get that much attention. We tend to think that they did something wrong or that they deserve it or that they are, you know, to be ignored. And we don't devote a lot of resources into it, which is unfortunate because.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, she was always eccentric and always, you know, the terms for schizophrenia in an Irish Catholic household where we didn't talk about anything were eccentric, fun. She's fun.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's the fear of the best thing that happened in my career was that I came to LA I didn't have an idea of what was going to happen. I met somebody who was really committed to making funny things. We just wanted to be funny. No one would let us be funny. We didn't have comedy central letting us be funny. We didn't have HBO. We didn't have Netflix. We just had a garage and a phone in the beginning and then a camera and then a thing. And we just wanted to be funny. And that was the greatest risk really I took because I was like, well, I don't know what else is going to happen right now, but I just want to be funny. And funny saved my life, right? I mean, funny got me out of drugs, funny probably got me out of the closet. Funny was the thing that I was able to do that made everything okay in my own head. So I was like, as long as I'm being funny, something good will happen. So we did that. And that's something really cool happened. That we were able to do a lot of cool things. But, you know, that's what it is. It's fear that keeps you from being the better version of yourself.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What should I have a bigger presence on TikTok? Should I have a bigger presence here? Should I have a should I be on Twitch? Should I be doing this? Should I be doing that? What am I not doing that I should be doing that I'll regret not doing? And those are the conversations I think I have in my own head all the time.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He said the hardest part is maximizing the current profit model of what you have at the same time, getting ready, getting the company ready for where it's going to be in five years. He said those are often at odds, and that's the toughest thing. He goes, because I could just bang out everything I got to do right now and we got to make a lot of money doing this. But am I devoting enough resources into digital so that in five years when that's where everything lives, are we competitive in that space? So as funny as I am now, hopefully to people and a lot of the things that I want to do now, I'm going, what groundwork am I not laying for three to five years down the road so that I can be adapting to the trends that are important then in terms of not so much comedic trends, but like the technological trends? Like what is, you know, I should have done podcasting earlier.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of not being good at my job, not being funny, letting people down, not putting out products that are good, you know, whether it's the podcast every week or stand up or the videos. Like I'm afraid of like, there's a ton of people that really enjoy what we do. So when you're in that position, you're nervous that you're going to start doing things that they don't like. So the new things you want to do, the evolution you want to do, you want to make sure you're evolving in the right way. You want to make sure that you're doing things that are consistent with why people liked you. But also, you don't want to put yourself in a box and limit what you can be going forward. So like I had a talk with the CEO of NBC Universal ones. I was doing some internal sketch for them and I was playing like a cab driver and he was, and he's not the current CEO, but he's a former CEO. And I said to him, what's the hardest part of running a corporation of this size? And he said something very interesting.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Friends more, my family, I would always, you know, could always throw in the street, but I'm kidding. I mean, but I am not. But my friends, my circle of friends, which I were my family at the time when you're a 10th, 11th grade in high school, your friends are your family. You know what I mean? Like that's your, so you don't want to do anything that puts you on the outside of the circle.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wanted people to like me, which is the disease of humanity, right? Is that we want to be liked and what happens is if you want people to like you and love you even, you want people to feel comfortable with you.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, that it was that I it wasn't society, it was me. So there were kids that were out in my high school that I waited years later to do it. That was no one's fault but my own. So I was taking a cowardly way out and a lot of people, so I could blame society or like, oh, I lived in a conservative area and I grew up in. You should take responsibility for your own decisions. And if you're being cowardly, admit that you're being cowardly. So that's what I took out of it is that it's not society's fault that you chose to be a coward. Society will never be perfect.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's just parts of it that are, right? So it's like I look at it as there needs to be more than just like that amazing chemistry or physical attraction that is this chemical thing that happens. There should be like some underlying. I mean, again, that's from what I that's what I've observed as really long lasting successful relationships.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I mean, I know there's a lot of people in the world that aren't honest. My view on love is super important. I think that a lot of society in America is all about love. We don't tend to focus on other things in terms of like, you know, friendship or sustainability of that because I think that a lot, I know a lot of people in relationships where it's like, I don't know, they're not, they are, they love each other, but like it's also a rock solid couple because they are very compatible in many other ways. So I think they're like”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Interesting. It's so hard to say because I'd like to make a very Disney fide statement about that you can't be in love secretively. You should be honest. Love should all be about honesty, but that's not true, right? There's people that are in love that are lying to everyone else, but they're deeply in love. I would love to say something like honesties of ingredient for love, you know, but I don't know. Maybe honesty with each other.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, thank you. That's very sweet. But I mean, thank God. I mean, that's what we try to do, right? We're trying to be funny. Yeah.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is it funny with the sound off? When you see me and the dumb things or me and the Meghan McCain or me and the thing. Is it funny with the sound off? And if you're funny with the sound off, you have a good starting point”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, pitch me this idea. I pitch it to the showrunner. They pitch it to the network. They pitch it to this, that, you know, standards and practices, sales, ads. We got to go through everything. Now it's just like are me and a few buddies or even just one buddy laughing at this idea. Does it captivate us? And do we see it visually? And also a great line from Roseanne, a guy, not Roseanne, but a guy that worked on Roseanne, the old Roseanne, the great one. He said, Is it funny with the sound off? That's what we try to”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think it's the whole thing that's important to us is that it's an extension of really like an extension of your friendship in a way. Like are you guys laughing at it? Are you guys making each other laugh about this idea? And if that's the case, other people are going to laugh at it. I think so much of the old medium was like everything was top down.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so on, you're. I want to be funny everywhere. I want to be funny everywhere. I love making things too. My producer Ben Avery is like a brilliant editor and comedic mind, even though he's not a standup. He's able to, he understands funny, he understands what makes me funny. We're able to make these really, I mean, some of those videos, they're just brilliant little videos, even though they're tiny little videos. They're fucking as funny as anything. And it's not me. It's me working with somebody else to make something really great. And if, and it's that relationship that's very important.”
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“Well, thank you I was late, you know? I mean, I just, you know, I've been podcasting for a long time, but really dedicating myself and putting the resources behind it, I was late to it. Like I was like, hey, I'm telling jokes on stage, which is great, but I should have been allocating more time to building an infrastructure online. And I wasn't doing it. And a lot of comics weren't doing it. Funny comics weren't doing. Comics should be doing it. And I think when the pandemic ends, a lot of comics will just keep doing live standup, but I will keep obviously I'm going to go back on the road and do live stand-up, but I will keep doing this podcast and building digitally.”
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“Because all the YouTubers came in and all the social media stars came in, and they really knocked comics off because now people are much more, like if you ask anyone under 30 who their favorite comedian is, they say David Dobrek. And there's nothing wrong with that. David's a funny guy. But like what you... Not especially to me a ton, but that's okay. I don't, you know, but he makes people laugh. So he's funny, but he's what people, you know, that's a comedian now. So comics got beat by other people coming into a digital space before they did laying the groundwork and taking it over. And now comics are just trying to stay alive. Like even my podcast, which is people really like it, thank God. And I love doing it.”
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