Tim Dillon’s New Netflix Show Looks Like a Much Meaner ‘Jerry Springer’
When the daytime talk show The Jerry Springer Show was still on the air, outraged critics declared that the syndicated trailer park brawl was rock-bottom for exploitative, lowest-common-denominator and painfully American entertainment. But Tim Dillon believes that we can go even lower.
Dillon is a Long Island native stand-up who touts his iconoclastic, vaguely conservative and always abrasive attitude toward modern America and modern Americans on his popular podcast The Tim Dillon Show. His ascension to the top tier of the loosely defined alt-comedy scene within the podcasting sphere started in 2017, the same year that Rolling Stone named him one of their “10 Comedians You Need To Know,” but when Dillon performed his first Netflix stand-up special, Tim Dillon: A Real Hero in 2022, The Pig and his pigs broke into the mainstream and appeased the movers and shakers of Netflix Comedy who seem to be warming up to the idea of giving mean-spirited, fiercely individualistic comedy-lovers a category code of their own.
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Yesterday, Netflix released the trailer for Tim Dillon: This Is Your Country, a Springer-style streaming talk show that goes mask-off in its aim to expose the most debased, degenerate beliefs and behavior of the American public with all the deceptive soft-lighting and uplifting music stings of similarly heinous daytime television shows:
The 39-year-old Dillon and his comedy are too complicated to categorize in a genre, and he’s too angry to ever accept such a label, even if it fit. He’s openly gay but indulgently offensive, he despises identity politics and invites his followers to use every slur against him that their little piggy brains can come up with. He leans conservative in his politics, semi-ironically fawning over figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump, but he despises the Baby Boomer generation and rails against their destruction of the housing market in rants that go viral on TikTok and Twitter among young leftists who haven’t Googled him.
Over in the Tim Dillon subreddit, his fans reacted to the above trailer in a thread titled, “Tim Faking It All the Way to Netflix! Legend,” expressing their delight that Dillon can unleash his rage on the streaming giant’s unsuspecting subscribers.
“This shit is like pure essence of Tim Dillion,” one wrote.
“Tim taking on a modern Jerry Springer show is a great fucking move for him,” another added. “Being able to play with and call out the absurdity of everyday+insane middle of America plays right into his brilliance. I think he’s the perfect person to revive this genre and add a new twist by being in on the absurdity with the audience.”
Another fan warned, Ohhh lord. The world ain’t ready for this.”
Well, ready or not, Tim Dillon: This Is Your Country is coming on October 1st. Let’s see how low this goes.
