Tim Dillon Didn’t Notice His Cameo While Watching ‘Joker 2’ Because He Was Busy Texting About How Bad the Movie Is

Even the actors in the much-maligned supervillain sequel film Joker: Folie à Deux can’t believe how badly the jukebox musical/psychological thriller turned out – but, hey, at least they saw it.

Despite the massive hype leading up to the release of director Todd Phillips’ second and almost definitely final film in the standalone movie series centered around the iconic Batman villain, all of the energy that propelled Joker: Folie à Deux to the forefront of the internet’s collective consciousness upon its opening on October 4 has quickly turned into collective trashing of the tentpole DC project. Die-hard Batman fanboys did their best to reserve judgment when they learned that, five years after the first Joker film set box office records and won two Academy awards, Phillips planned on continuing the story of Arthur Fleck with a musical movie centered around the talents of Lady Gaga in the role of Harley Quinn, but, after Joker: Folie à Deux earned the worst second weekend box office decline in the history of comic book movies, the floodgates opened for the comparatively few moviegoers who actually watched the critically panned film to tell everyone they know to steer clear.

Popular podcaster and This Is Your Country host Tim Dillon is one such audience member who watched in horror as a screening of Joker: Folie à Deux at a theater in Laguna Beach wasted his $20 and 138 minutes of his time. More than that, the movie wasted three months of Dillon's life as the stand-up comic played a small part in Joker: Folie à Deux, an appearance that was so brief that Dillon himself missed his big scene because he was too busy texting his friends about how awful the film turned out. Dillon discussed his hilariously horrific experience with the film on a recent episode of The Tim Dillon Show:

In Joker: Folie à Deux, Dillon appears as an unnamed prison guard working at the famous Arkham Asylum who asks the titular murderer and inmate to sign his book. How such a small part necessitated a three-month stay in a trailer for Dillon is unclear, but the result is not – Joker: Folie à Deux will not land Dillon on the shortlists of many big time Hollywood casting directors, especially after he unleashed his fury on the seemingly failed project barely a week after the premiere. 

At the same time, Dillon's reaction feels a bit out of proportion – playing a supporting role in a shitty movie doesn't exactly make him P. Diddy. It's not like the disgraced mogul and alleged sex trafficker is under indictment because Get Him to the Greek sucked.