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#269 - The Activist | The Tim Dillon Show

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show here with Ben Avery, our
producer from a temporary studio, an undisclosed location in Los Angeles,
California.
R.I.P. Norm, out the gate, the worst story of the year, hopefully in comedy.
You know, Norm MacDonald passed away, one of the greatest comedians that's ever
lived.
Respected by everybody in comedy, no matter what kind of type of comedian you
were or what you believed politically, everybody loved Norm MacDonald.
You were obsessed.
Huge fan.
With Norm.
Yeah.
When Norm, you know, retweeted us, I remember that was like a massive day.
Yeah, it was huge.
I don't remember what video it was.
It was the OJ one.
Yeah, I mean, he was just a fucking, that retweet was like everything when that
happened.
And then he said some kind things about some of the stuff we did on Twitter and
that was awesome.
And, you know, some of the videos we put out and some of the clips of the
podcast he had said good stuff about.
And that just makes your life as a comic, right?
To have someone like that appreciate what you, especially because my story with
Norm is not, it doesn't start out great because I did Last Comic Standing in
2000 and whatever.
It never aired and I did my joke and I did well and it was him, it was Damon
Wayans and Roseanne.
Roseanne, yeah.
And Roseanne liked me.
Damon Wayans like, he was like, not, he was just like, yeah.
He just like smiled and laughed.
I think he said right on.
I don't know what he, he was just like barely there.
Like he wasn't, I don't remember anything either way.
And then Norm was like, how many years have you been doing comedy?
I'm like four.
He's like, what?
It takes 10 years to be a comedian.
What are you doing here?
I was like, oh.
And I remember that was the biggest gut punch I got in standup.
And I remember being at the Hilton by, where they shoot all those shows by,
where is that?
Universal City?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That area?
I was in the Hilton and I was just like, like, I couldn't even eat.
I was like, this is horrible.
And I spoke to that, one of the comics I was staying with at that point.
And he was like, last comic standing.
He's like, you go in there and they pay legend to tell you not to do what you
love, which is
kind of what, but I got over it.
I kept doing it.
And then he became a fan of us later on and a lot of shit we were doing.
And he was right.
You know, I was a four year, five year comic.
Then it's like, you do need more time to mature.
He did some hilarious shit.
This clip is so funny.
Yeah, I was wondering if we could play this.
From The View.
Yeah, I mean, there's just, by the way, you can go on a binge of Norm MacDonald
stuff because
all of it is funny.
You will lose hours of your day.
Every rant, every joke.
You go back to SNL when he was doing Burt Reynolds.
I mean, just, there's nothing that's not amazing, but play this from The View.
Do we not want any more murderers?
I think we should just go on to the next question.
Who are the murderers?
Oh, Clinton, he murdered a guy.
Yeah, you know, we're not allowed to, you're not allowed to put out no
accusations with that.
That's a little too far.
That's the way it does work.
Let's just, let's just go on to the next question.
Yeah.
This is not my week.
What can I tell you?
Oh, it's not mine either.
And I'm being very nice.
Okay.
I'm being a good boy.
Now, Norm.
Do you never hear that?
No.
Listen, we don't need to talk about that.
I don't want to get into this and I don't want to hear it and this is not the
place to make
those accusations.
And you're supposed to be funny.
Let's get on with it.
Exactly.
So get with me.
There you go.
This is a live show.
Why?
I don't know, Norm, but you have been properly chastised by Barbara.
So I'm not going to ask the next question.
I thought it was a matter of record.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Look, let me do this, okay?
I'll tell you what's a matter of record.
You will not be invited back if you don't shut up.
All right.
What is Star Jones doing now, by the way?
Like, where did Star Jones land?
It's interesting.
Let's see.
What is she up to?
I think she did like a whole weight loss thing, right?
Was that the direction she went in?
Star Jones is an American lawyer.
What is she doing now?
She left The View in 06, so, I mean, to see what she's doing now.
I don't want to lose too much of the show.
I don't want to be like 30 minutes into this.
We're still like, yeah, we don't really know.
So she went from The View to her original network, Court TV, now rebranded True
TV.
Then the final episode of Star Jones aired on in 2008, and I don't think she's
done much
since.
Well, she's in an episode of The Impractical Jokers.
Did you know that?
Oh, interesting.
Well, it's controversial because all the jokers dress up like her.
They put on fat suits and they do blackface, and they all, because the whole
joke is that
none of them know that the other three are also Star Jones.
The fun show called The Activist, which was going to debut on, I don't know,
one of these networks
that wants nothing to do with me.
CBS, The Activist, was announced, and it was going to be a reality competition
show where
people competed to be crowned the best activist.
In a battle for relevancy on social media.
Yes, yes.
It was something that I would pitch as a joke.
CBS decided to actually fund and make a show where people would compete to be
the best social
media activist.
And when I criticize celebrity activism, it's not so much that it's not, that
it's, I'm not
saying like, oh, it's not good.
I'm saying it's not real.
Like, it doesn't exist.
See, it's, depending on the way you feel, it might be misguided, but it's not
even happening,
is my point.
It's just people talking.
Nothing's going on.
Occasionally, there's some charity or slush fund that you can't really trace
where the money
goes.
Occasionally, there's a fundraiser where people go and eat nice food and wear
designer clothing
and they all write checks and then a portion of that money gets funneled to
something that
may help someone somewhere down the line.
But it's not really like direct action, right?
And this is, this is really what it is.
And every now and then, Hollywood like does something that's so heinous that
they have
to disavow it.
Usually, they try to defend what they do, even though they're on very shaky
ground.
Like the Imagine video, people are like, it makes people happy.
Shut up.
You're a cynic.
You know, remember that?
When everybody got together in the beginning of the pandemic, when everybody
was unemployed
and everyone was shut down and nobody had a job and the hero nurses we've heard
endlessly
about are all supposedly the nurses found that comforting, I guess.
I don't know.
We couldn't get them PPE.
They were wearing garbage bags.
But apparently, seeing Gail Gadot and all these people sing helped them.
But Hollywood every now and then just does something so egregious that they
have to immediately
go, hey, our mistake and retool.
And the activist competition, it's like the apprentice for Black Lives Matter
activists.
Truly.
No, it's the apprentice for woke activists.
On Instagram, like, you know, the tits out, you know, we've all seen the
Instagrams.
Every hot chick on Instagram and even most of the hot dudes, the profile
picture is like
BLM, make sure the pronouns are in there.
She, her, BLM, here are the tits.
That was the show.
They said, let's find hot, attractive, socially conscious activists to
basically go and fool
the world using CBS, which is a pretty large platform.
Let's bring on people to play a trick, to play a joke on the world and say that
they are really
concerned with activism but have the time to participate in a reality show on
CBS.
In the midst of their very busy careers as activists, they have the time to do
a reality
competition show.
Some would say it's a frivolous endeavor.
Oh, no, no, it's going to get them a lot of new people to follow them on social
media so
they can continue to do better activism.
Okay, this is, this was the plot of the show.
This, by the way, you don't realize how long or how shows have to get made.
There's a process and I've been through the process many times and it's never
worked,
but I know the process.
There are layers of approval that you have to get from many different people.
It's not just like one person goes, let's do it.
This idea had to climb a ladder of multiple people that had to sign off on this
saying that
this was a good idea.
Also, this didn't start yesterday.
This idea was not hatched a week ago, which makes me think that this idea
probably came
to an executive during the riots.
Yeah, the timeline makes sense.
The timeline does make sense.
So during the riots, after the murder of George Floyd, which was fucking, like
it was
an execution killing of George Floyd.
And all of these things that we're all figuring out, Tamir Rice, this poor kid
who got shot,
you know, who had a BB gun and all of these different things that had made
people really
start talking about policing and rights and all that.
During this time, someone in the town that I'm in right now had an idea for a
show.
They had, they were looking at all these people on social media.
Remember the black square?
I put one up.
Yes, I remember.
The black square.
I didn't know.
I thought we're all going to be, it was going to be a collage or something.
Didn't turn out that way.
The black square after, cause you just, if you were white the next day, you put
you like,
you were just like, Hey man, here's the black square.
Cause that's nuts.
I don't want to stand on anyone's neck.
Cause we all, and listen, it was a CIA psyop.
Sure.
But sometimes every now and then you just go, sometimes the CIA psyop is better
than
people going, why the fuck did this piece of shit not post a black square?
You look like you wouldn't post a black square.
So I threw up that black square.
And cause that was, you know, people were really figuring out how they were
going to like,
be like, Hey man, this shit's fucked up.
Like I'm not, I don't go in with the narrative that all cops are horrible
people, but there's
a problem, right?
You can't stand on someone's neck for nine minutes.
This is an issue.
Um, around that time when people were having those discussions around that time,
uh, when
people were calling for these ridiculous things that have been reversed, like
defunding the
cops and abolishing the cops when none of that really works.
But around that time, someone in the town I'm in now, uh, said, there's a show
here.
That's what they said.
They go, there's a show.
There's a show.
They had to do this.
They had to sit in a room and do this with other executives.
They had to go.
We're so focused right now on positive change.
No, this is what had to happen.
And Ben's laughing because he knows this is exactly.
There were tanks rolling down the street at this time too.
No, no, no.
The country was on the brink of like, I don't, I don't want to say civil war,
but whatever
was going on was, I mean, I remember smoking a cigarette in Palm Springs.
I was on the phone with Giannis and we were watching these riots.
We're going, this is fucking crazy.
We're on the phone for two hours.
I smoked like two packs of cigarettes, just staring at these things.
It was unbelievable.
Just things getting lit on fire.
And it was crazy.
During that time, someone went, you know, we're all, you know, in a meeting and
maybe
there was a zoom meeting, probably nobody's in the office.
So on a zoom call, they went, you know, there's just this young generation of
activists that
we really respect, you know, think Parkland, you know, think David Hogg, Emma
Gonzalez, you
know, they're young, they're hungry for change.
They're smart.
They're well-spoken.
They're telegenic.
We just feel like right now, this moment is so important.
They love the word moment.
They're like, this moment is so important.
What we want to do is pit these activists against each other on television in a
competition
setting and have them 