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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von and Tim Dillon on Taking Down the Hollywood Sign' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-08-01. Transcript available.

what about the hollywood sign getting taken down you see can you pull that up
do you mind
nick did you see uh people talking about that because obviously you know there's
a lot of been
a lot of stuff people taking down monuments you know yeah confederate flag
people taking down
you know i think the cleveland indians just announced today they're going to
change their name
um do you want me to look that up yeah maybe both if you can i know you only
have two hands but uh
but i thought about so then part of me like because i get a little bit angry
sometimes about
like because confederate flag i learned it from dukes of hazard right and that's
your like you
have a whole different understanding of it because you're a southern guy right
i would just see it
like now if somebody rode by with a correct like if somebody yelled the n-word
right and was waving
it right i'm like no wrong yeah that's a bad guy wrong but but i just start to
worry just when does
it end you know like when does it well yeah i think a lot of people think that
because a lot of people
are like at a certain point if you go through history oh yeah nobody's clean no
nobody nobody's
clean so do you just i mean every movie everything so do you just get rid of
everything do you destroy
everything and then you start burning books and you start you're just heading
that situation i don't
really care about confederate monuments but it's like then it's like well let's
get rid of uh you know
washington right lincoln let's get rid of mount rushmore it's like where does
it end and the other
question nobody asks what do you replace that with right what are we replacing
it with right because
you're gonna lose a lot of branding like even like the university george washington
university right like
they've been thinking like okay do we have to change there's been like yeah
they just change it to gw
and nobody isn't that they'll be like yeah it's gw it's like kfc when they were
like not using chicken
yeah it's kfc you're like yeah but what does that c stand for they're like i
don't know something
crunchy yeah we don't know what it is yeah it's just like i can't imagine that
anyone really cares
that's the thing does anybody really care no one really because we grew up
going like we would go from
mardi gras we would go by the um we would go by the everybody would meet at the
robert lee statue in new
orleans right and everybody would meet there black white right uh that's all we
had we had a little
bit of like i guess maybe mexican or chinese like kind of like one person that
might have been a pacific
islander yeah something yeah gotcha like like i grew up in a town we had a
group called wham whites
against mexicans right yeah and we didn't have any mexicans so they would
always like that a musical group
no this is not okay this is more of like uh yeah get the torch and yeah yeah
just like a budget antifa
you know like antifa but that had to be home by 6 p.m for dinner okay and then
and it was only three
guys in it right and um and then they like kind of attacked the chinese like
semi chinese kid once
like there was no real follow-through you know but is it because they couldn't
find a mexican yeah
there was no let's just get let's just get this guy he's semi-chinese yeah
totally yeah yeah oh my brother
it's the best we're gonna do we just gotta we gotta show people we're about it
and there's
no mexicans around but this guy looked half chinese yeah so he's getting it
yeah look god we drew it on
our binders during lunch this is real now yeah we gotta move forward with it
yeah wow but yeah just
start so then i start to think okay well yeah you tear it down but then here's
what i start to worry
about is say in certain uh in certain cities and whether they be southern
really or anywhere because
some of it starts to branch out now to like oh well thomas jefferson had slaves
and
this person dated a black woman who was underage and just different things
where it just keeps
escalating and it's like when does like at a certain point um yeah like you're
saying it's gonna hit
everybody but then the people who live in those places right who associate with
that history and don't
associate it with it racially right like and i know this is just a white
perspective yeah but
those people are gonna be like i'm i don't want to live in a place where now
the street
that i'm on has been changed like it's also like why are we ignoring history
why are we trying to get
rid of it right why not just learn from it why not appreciate it why not look
at a statue and go
yeah that guy did some like why are statues only of good people number one like
the idea that every
statue it doesn't mean that i never look at a statue and go that was a great
guy that guy was great i bet
he was great i never have ever looked at a statue and went i should think like
him yeah i look at
a statue go that guy did something maybe good maybe very bad yeah he might have
been very bad but it
was significant that's what a statue is it's about significance it's not about
moral purity right that
was the guy was a role player he like throw up a carmelo anthony somewhere yeah
you know what i'm
saying like right he kind of hey like the people are 50 50 on if he's really
that helpful to a team
right you know right right but i i've never looked at a statue i don't know who
we're infantilizing
people yeah we're treating them like children we're telling them oh if you walk
by a statue
you're going to automatically uh look at that statue or that person in reverence
yeah that's not
what does anyone care you know they go let's take down the christopher columbus
statue in the
middle of columbus circle new york city no one knows who that is right the kids
don't know who it is
they don't give a they don't give up they're on their phone they don't even
look at the statue
so the idea that like columbus uh ah it's a bunch you know columbus is
reinforcing imperialism and
genocide no one cares nobody knows who he is well then it's like should you
take down like because
there's you know a lot of artwork and i'm i don't know if there's monuments but
of like slave probably
like arriving in like charleston like slave ships and stuff that did so then it's
like well if you're a
white person you don't want to remember that all the time right so it's like
but you should have to
look at it you should have to be like man wow a lot of this town was built by
slave labor right
that to me makes sense like you have those monuments and you're like i can't
forget
this history right you know but if i i feel like if you're going to apply apply
it to everything it's
just like you know because some people might think man i didn't do this right
why do i have to be
reminded of it all the time yeah but yeah because that's applying the same
psychology i feel like to
the ones where you're applying it to you know like george washington or robert
lee you know like yeah
or just put on robert lee's thing this guy got second place in the civil war
just right this guy was
fucked up yeah this guy was fucked up and aren't we all and aren't we all um or
yeah i think it's it
the people that really are advocating that they take down everything are people
that just want to
completely remake or reimagine america yeah so they start with the iconography
of it they start with
like the statues and everything and it's like we can all agree that america has
some deep deep flaws
it should be corrected but i don't think anybody's or a lot of people are not
going to be on board for
the new version of america that a lot of these people want right nobody wants
that where you don't
have any freedom you know nobody really wants that and i think that's what this
kind of america that
they envision is in america where everybody is constantly policing themselves
and their speech and
you're being there's surveillance uh of everything you write and say and it's
just weird like you
want to rat on people and if like i remember when corona started people were
like yo go go call this
number if these kids don't have masks i'm like what yeah i don't want to be a
rat dude there's a kid
skateboarding i'm supposed to call a number and be like i yeah i see a kid
without a mask go get him
yeah todd has it yeah yeah i don't want to inform on people i just that to me
that whole world is not
i don't like that world i don't want to live in that world i'd rather live in
the world with
some of the problems in this orwellian nightmarish world where like people are
like i can't say
anything i'm afraid to have an opinion i'm afraid to meet somebody at this
corner because both of the
people it's named after were racist yeah it's just like what are we doing
because it's just people
wandering around yeah unable to meet at certain intersections like i can't they
don't know what
it means or the weird guy who will only meet in front of the robert e lee
statue he's like we're
meeting in front of lee you want to date me we meet in front of lee and that's
it we always meet in
front of a confederate monument yeah yeah it's weird man or just yeah or maybe
like you add to the
mind now i think that would be even a better idea yeah add to the monuments
yeah you know yeah
like how are you kicking him in the face yes do a harriet tubman doing a scissor
kick
right harriet tubman sitting on the front of the horse why not it's funny i
think it's like in the
absence of real solutions people are like hey let's just take the statue down
yeah you know it's like
how about stopping police shooting black people yeah uh let's take the statue
down let's just take this
how about stopping uh some of the issues in hollywood people getting abused or
whatever
let's just take the sign down yeah let's just take the sign down that'll cure
everything but see that's
where it's like that to me would really make hollywood i think if you took the
sign down yeah then hollywood
is going to be like well what do we have then right what what is the movement
to take the hollywood
sign down i haven't heard about that well i'm sorry and nick had it up a second
ago and i uh
wait a minute can you go back to indiana governor wait a minute hold on go back
to the indiana
governor says all people over the age of eight will face wait a minute this is
great what was that
indiana governor says all people over the age of eight will face a face mask
mandate there are some
nine-year-olds that are going to get thrown into paddy wagons and that's in indiana
oh what are you
10 yeah get your mask on yeah i love kids learning about government at nine you
know being like oh i lose
my freedoms at nine so different dude damn and are these kids and i just wonder
if the masks
how are they going to develop their
their world it's going to be underdeveloped yeah i mean we're ahead under yeah
developed i mean we're
heading to a scary place i'm all for like yeah wear the mask keeps people safe
whatever but i just think
there's something hilarious about the the like this weird age of like eight
yeah this like
meaningless distance that's when they know eight yeah it's like if you're nine
you better have your
together yeah you better have your together at nine almost like the 1800s it's
like the freaking yeah
yeah you're gonna serve in a war uh the hollywood sign it says right here the
hollywood sign
um has been through some stuff it said on there did you have an art was there
something i have i
there was one tweet it oh that's it it had 33 33 likes you had a blue check
mark these are people
that are on the right that are going if you're going to take down jefferson washington
we're going
to take down a hollywood sign so this is what happens it just becomes and to me
that makes sure
i get it and that's when you start to look because that's what i feel like it's
like
you have to that's smart ball to me yeah if you are on the right or if you are
it's like well what
about the the you know the obvious you know the the me too so what about all
the
shit that goes on in hollywood 100 this is a deviant place 100 it's awesome 100
but it's risque
yeah there's lots of long established problems yeah power dynamic issues here
oh yeah um but
the whole thing is like i when jenny slate uh apologized for doing the voice of
a mixed race
character on big mouth yeah i saw that i did this whole thing on my podcast as
a joke where i was
like it's not enough that she's stepping down because her apology is very
creepy right people i i was
like why why does she jenny slate from everything i know about her is probably
not like a racist
right why is she coming out to like confess she's like i've erased black people
i cannot believe
and it was very weird like she felt she had to come out and give this big
explanation it was very
weird so i just said you know to counter the insanity of that i said that's not
enough she should go to
jail yeah she should be in jail you know i think she should go to jail i saw
this every day jenny slate
is not in jail i will speak out yeah and that's the whole thing because i said
it's not enough so this
is what you kind of do when people go woke you just go further right you go you
go wide awoke yeah yeah
you go real yeah wide awoke you go insomnia yeah you go put her in jail yeah
put her in jail it's not
enough and who are her parents where they live at and where are they let's
share this we're burning
that house you raised a racist yeah get them let's share their information and
what that's supposed
to do is make people go oh yeah this is stupid yeah but as a matter of fact you
get people on twitter
go i don't think she should go to jail and then some people go maybe like a re-education
you're like yeah maybe like some type of re-education or something but not jail
next you know she has to
take 40 hours a student driving from a from an african-american instructor yeah
what's great is
like i'm like oh you're almost there like you're almost at my crazy example
right you're almost at
let's put her in jail yeah that's what you see when you tweet something crazy
and the responses are like
yeah that might make some sense you're like what yeah i tweeted the other day
and i said i walked to
a grocery store and i uh they told me to wear a mask i took it off uh i i didn't
have a mask on i faked a
seizure and then i ran around the store uh called this screaming the storm is
coming and a lot of
people on twitter were like good for you man i wish i could have seen that like
dead serious like yeah
you show them i'm like yeah i was i didn't do any of that right but people are
like yeah you show them
people are ready well people are looking also for anything that's against the
norm so that's another
reason why i think a lot of what you say really kind of stands out like a lot
of times because it's like
also i think you're finding like a seam of humor in this yeah where sometimes i
forget to like
just be light about like just like joke around about stuff well because like
you watch these shows
now that are like you know ellen and fallon they're all at their kitchen tables
yeah like jimmy kimmel's
in his living room and you're like what's going on it's weird and then they're
interviewing people
and they're interviewing celebrities and they're talking about movies coming
out and you're like this is so
dystopian yeah like it's so disconnected from the reality that i think people
just want anybody whether
you're crazy or not yeah to talk about something that's actually going on right
the reality something
that's actually happening good evening good afternoon and other times thanks
for watching that video you
just saw i mean it was okay but the next video you could watch could be way
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a video right now that changes your life well you could watch this one or watch
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Theo Von and Tim Dillon on Taking Down the Hollywood Sign

what about the hollywood sign getting taken down you see can you pull that up
do you mind
nick did you see uh people talking about that because obviously you know there's
a lot of been
a lot of stuff people taking down monuments you know yeah confederate flag
people taking down
you know i think the cleveland indians just announced today they're going to
change their name
um do you want me to look that up yeah maybe both if you can i know you only
have two hands but uh
but i thought about so then part of me like because i get a little bit angry
sometimes about
like because confederate flag i learned it from dukes of hazard right and that's
your like you
have a whole different understanding of it because you're a southern guy right
i would just see it
like now if somebody rode by with a correct like if somebody yelled the n-word
right and was waving
it right i'm like no wrong yeah that's a bad guy wrong but but i just start to
worry just when does
it end you know like when does it well yeah i think a lot of people think that
because a lot of people
are like at a certain point if you go through history oh yeah nobody's clean no
nobody nobody's
clean so do you just i mean every movie everything so do you just get rid of
everything do you destroy
everything and then you start burning books and you start you're just heading
that situation i don't
really care about confederate monuments but it's like then it's like well let's
get rid of uh you know
washington right lincoln let's get rid of mount rushmore it's like where does
it end and the other
question nobody asks what do you replace that with right what are we replacing
it with right because
you're gonna lose a lot of branding like even like the university george washington
university right like
they've been thinking like okay do we have to change there's been like yeah
they just change it to gw
and nobody isn't that they'll be like yeah it's gw it's like kfc when they were
like not using chicken
yeah it's kfc you're like yeah but what does that c stand for they're like i
don't know something
crunchy yeah we don't know what it is yeah it's just like i can't imagine that
anyone really cares
that's the thing does anybody really care no one really because we grew up
going like we would go from
mardi gras we would go by the um we would go by the everybody would meet at the
robert lee statue in new
orleans right and everybody would meet there black white right uh that's all we
had we had a little
bit of like i guess maybe mexican or chinese like kind of like one person that
might have been a pacific
islander yeah something yeah gotcha like like i grew up in a town we had a
group called wham whites
against mexicans right yeah and we didn't have any mexicans so they would
always like that a musical group
no this is not okay this is more of like uh yeah get the torch and yeah yeah
just like a budget antifa
you know like antifa but that had to be home by 6 p.m for dinner okay and then
and it was only three
guys in it right and um and then they like kind of attacked the chinese like
semi chinese kid once
like there was no real follow-through you know but is it because they couldn't
find a mexican yeah
there was no let's just get let's just get this guy he's semi-chinese yeah
totally yeah yeah oh my brother
it's the best we're gonna do we just gotta we gotta show people we're about it
and there's
no mexicans around but this guy looked half chinese yeah so he's getting it
yeah look god we drew it on
our binders during lunch this is real now yeah we gotta move forward with it
yeah wow but yeah just
start so then i start to think okay well yeah you tear it down but then here's
what i start to worry
about is say in certain uh in certain cities and whether they be southern
really or anywhere because
some of it starts to branch out now to like oh well thomas jefferson had slaves
and
this person dated a black woman who was underage and just different things
where it just keeps
escalating and it's like when does like at a certain point um yeah like you're
saying it's gonna hit
everybody but then the people who live in those places right who associate with
that history and don't
associate it with it racially right like and i know this is just a white
perspective yeah but
those people are gonna be like i'm i don't want to live in a place where now
the street
that i'm on has been changed like it's also like why are we ignoring history
why are we trying to get
rid of it right why not just learn from it why not appreciate it why not look
at a statue and go
yeah that guy did some like why are statues only of good people number one like
the idea that every
statue it doesn't mean that i never look at a statue and go that was a great
guy that guy was great i bet
he was great i never have ever looked at a statue and went i should think like
him yeah i look at
a statue go that guy did something maybe good maybe very bad yeah he might have
been very bad but it
was significant that's what a statue is it's about significance it's not about
moral purity right that
was the guy was a role player he like throw up a carmelo anthony somewhere yeah
you know what i'm
saying like right he kind of hey like the people are 50 50 on if he's really
that helpful to a team
right you know right right but i i've never looked at a statue i don't know who
we're infantilizing
people yeah we're treating them like children we're telling them oh if you walk
by a statue
you're going to automatically uh look at that statue or that person in reverence
yeah that's not
what does anyone care you know they go let's take down the christopher columbus
statue in the
middle of columbus circle new york city no one knows who that is right the kids
don't know who it is
they don't give a they don't give up they're on their phone they don't even
look at the statue
so the idea that like columbus uh ah it's a bunch you know columbus is
reinforcing imperialism and
genocide no one cares nobody knows who he is well then it's like should you
take down like because
there's you know a lot of artwork and i'm i don't know if there's monuments but
of like slave probably
like arriving in like charleston like slave ships and stuff that did so then it's
like well if you're a
white person you don't want to remember that all the time right so it's like
but you should have to
look at it you should have to be like man wow a lot of this town was built by
slave labor right
that to me makes sense like you have those monuments and you're like i can't
forget
this history right you know but if i i feel like if you're going to apply apply
it to everything it's
just like you know because some people might think man i didn't do this right
why do i have to be
reminded of it all the time yeah but yeah because that's applying the same
psychology i feel like to
the ones where you're applying it to you know like george washington or robert
lee you know like yeah
or just put on robert lee's thing this guy got second place in the civil war
just right this guy was
fucked up yeah this guy was fucked up and aren't we all and aren't we all um or
yeah i think it's it
the people that really are advocating that they take down everything are people
that just want to
completely remake or reimagine america yeah so they start with the iconography
of it they start with
like the statues and everything and it's like we can all agree that america has
some deep deep flaws
it should be corrected but i don't think anybody's or a lot of people are not
going to be on board for
the new version of america that a lot of these people want right nobody wants
that where you don't
have any freedom you know nobody really wants that and i think that's what this
kind of america that
they envision is in america where everybody is constantly policing themselves
and their speech and
you're being there's surveillance uh of everything you write and say and it's
just weird like you
want to rat on people and if like i remember when corona started people were
like yo go go call this
number if these kids don't have masks i'm like what yeah i don't want to be a
rat dude there's a kid
skateboarding i'm supposed to call a number and be like i yeah i see a kid
without a mask go get him
yeah todd has it yeah yeah i don't want to inform on people i just that to me
that whole world is not
i don't like that world i don't want to live in that world i'd rather live in
the world with
some of the problems in this orwellian nightmarish world where like people are
like i can't say
anything i'm afraid to have an opinion i'm afraid to meet somebody at this
corner because both of the
people it's named after were racist yeah it's just like what are we doing
because it's just people
wandering around yeah unable to meet at certain intersections like i can't they
don't know what
it means or the weird guy who will only meet in front of the robert e lee
statue he's like we're
meeting in front of lee you want to date me we meet in front of lee and that's
it we always meet in
front of a confederate monument yeah yeah it's weird man or just yeah or maybe
like you add to the
mind now i think that would be even a better idea yeah add to the monuments
yeah you know yeah
like how are you kicking him in the face yes do a harriet tubman doing a scissor
kick
right harriet tubman sitting on the front of the horse why not it's funny i
think it's like in the
absence of real solutions people are like hey let's just take the statue down
yeah you know it's like
how about stopping police shooting black people yeah uh let's take the statue
down let's just take this
how about stopping uh some of the issues in hollywood people getting abused or
whatever
let's just take the sign down yeah let's just take the sign down that'll cure
everything but see that's
where it's like that to me would really make hollywood i think if you took the
sign down yeah then hollywood
is going to be like well what do we have then right what what is the movement
to take the hollywood
sign down i haven't heard about that well i'm sorry and nick had it up a second
ago and i uh
wait a minute can you go back to indiana governor wait a minute hold on go back
to the indiana
governor says all people over the age of eight will face wait a minute this is
great what was that
indiana governor says all people over the age of eight will face a face mask
mandate there are some
nine-year-olds that are going to get thrown into paddy wagons and that's in indiana
oh what are you
10 yeah get your mask on yeah i love kids learning about government at nine you
know being like oh i lose
my freedoms at nine so different dude damn and are these kids and i just wonder
if the masks
how are they going to develop their
their world it's going to be underdeveloped yeah i mean we're ahead under yeah
developed i mean we're
heading to a scary place i'm all for like yeah wear the mask keeps people safe
whatever but i just think
there's something hilarious about the the like this weird age of like eight
yeah this like
meaningless distance that's when they know eight yeah it's like if you're nine
you better have your
together yeah you better have your together at nine almost like the 1800s it's
like the freaking yeah
yeah you're gonna serve in a war uh the hollywood sign it says right here the
hollywood sign
um has been through some stuff it said on there did you have an art was there
something i have i
there was one tweet it oh that's it it had 33 33 likes you had a blue check
mark these are people
that are on the right that are going if you're going to take down jefferson washington
we're going
to take down a hollywood sign so this is what happens it just becomes and to me
that makes sure
i get it and that's when you start to look because that's what i feel like it's
like
you have to that's smart ball to me yeah if you are on the right or if you are
it's like well what
about the the you know the obvious you know the the me too so what about all
the
shit that goes on