Name: Tim Dillon on The Disturbing Power of Advertising
Uploaded: 2023-08-10T17:29:42.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tim Dillon on The Disturbing Power of Advertising' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tim Dillon on The Disturbing Power of Advertising' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-10. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- The way Jerry Seinfeld sells, like,
he goes, "There's nothing better than a pair of Levi's,"
or, you know?
Or he goes, "A Volkswagen Beetle or a Big Pen."
He's like, "If things don't make you happy,
"you don't have the right things."
It's so funny, and I feel like he does think
a little bit like that. - Yeah.
- 'Cause that is a group of person, too,
where they're almost spiritually connected
to inanimate objects, you know?
Like, and he said, "This is all gonna be in my new book,
"soulful materialism."
But it's just funny to me because it's like,
there are people you meet that when you talk to them,
you go, "Oh yeah, like, this does mean a lot to you."
- That's a very funny premise, though.
That's a very good Jerry Seinfeld premise.
- It's the best thing, I think he's, you know,
I'm not familiar with all of his comedy shows brilliant,
obviously his comedy's brilliant,
but that award speech I saw,
it was like this very unique, different thing
that, he goes, "Yeah, these awards."
He goes, "Here's what they really are."
He goes, "I know this award means nothing."
He goes, "And I know that because the last time we did this,
you know, the last time they had this award show,
they left a bunch of them up on stage,
and you all just came up here and grabbed them."
He goes, "You didn't earn them,
but you just brought them home because they prop up your meaningless lives."
It was the, it's the best thing I've seen it from,
it was my just favorite thing,
because it does seem like he's totally raw.
And I feel like that is him.
Like, he is being real in that moment where he's basically like,
"No, this is what it is."
Yeah.
"Yeah, here's the shiny thing."
He goes, "It doesn't matter that it doesn't work when I get it home.
I want it now."
He goes, "I want the thing on the commercial."
I want it now."
And there is something so deeply American about that.
It is disturbing on some level,
but there's also a level where you got to just recognize
how powerful that stuff is too.
- Yeah.
- Like we are one of the only generations of people that
have experienced this level of prosperity.
- Oh yeah.
- Which is crazy.
- And instant access to goods.
- To everything.
- You have an app on your phone, Amazon.
- Anything you can get.
- And you can just buy whatever you want.
You can buy crazy shit on Amazon.
Very expensive things on Amazon.
You just have it sent to your house.
- It's like my boomer parents were like
the first heavily propagandized generation
with regard to advertising.
- Yeah.
- That's why we all grew up eating shit
because like they believed corporations.
- Yeah.
- Corporations were like McDonald's is it.
Your kids are going to love it.
And you're like, "All right, go to McDonald's."
Now, my cousin's two kids have never had McDonald's.
They're six and four.
She goes, "They'll never."
She goes, "I can't control them forever,
but for right now, they'll never have McDonald's."
We grew up eating there.
- Yeah.
- Because corporations were paramount.
My father loves commercials as much as TV shows.
He used to call me like the Budweiser frogs
were his favorite thing in the world.
Remember those three frogs?
- I do remember those frogs.
- On the lily pants?
- I do remember them.
- They would go, "Budweiser."
And my father loved them.
To him, that was art.
Like that with the boomers were like
one of the first generations where the advertising was art.
Like after 9/11, Budweiser did this commercial
where all the Clydesdales took a knee
and they said, "From one American."
And they were doing it and you're like, "Where was it?"
And they're doing it in Jersey
and you're looking at where the towers used to be.
And it took you a minute to get it.
And then they all take a knee and Budweiser said,
"From one American icon to another."
And my father's like crying in the living room going,
"This is the greatest thing I've seen."
The bodies were still like smoldering
and my father, yeah, here it is.
It's crazy.