Tim Dillon on Comedy in the Trump Era, Out of Touch Celebrities, and Alex Jones | Summer Re-Release

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Today we're re-releasing a favorite episode from February 2021, with comedian Tim Dillon. He and Megyn Kelly talked about the shift in comedy to serious and dark in the Trump Era, DC vs. NYC, Hollywood and out of touch celebrities, Reddit and GameStop, Alex Jones, cancel culture and the "revenge of the mediocre," mental illness, Saturday Night Live, Chelsea Handler, Jimmy Kimmel, Ellen DeGeneres and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show.
0:15.1	Well, it's the first day of summer and my family and I are on summer vacation this week.
0:21.0	But we did not want to leave you hanging on your podcast feeds, so we are going to
0:25.4	re-up a couple of very fun episodes from the early days of the show in case you miss
0:30.0	them.
0:31.0	We were just building an audience back then, so you might have.
0:33.4	Up first today is my conversation with Tim Dillon.
0:37.9	He is awesome.
0:39.8	This is from February of 2021.
0:42.0	Tim's hilarious and so perceptive on our culture and the state of comedy.
0:47.2	And he has blown up in the 15 months since the time he was on our show.
0:50.8	I'm not taking credit.
0:51.8	He's noting that he's a star.
0:55.5	We talked about Hollywood, out of touch celebrities, cancel culture and the revenge of the mediocre
1:01.3	love that mental illness, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel, Ellen DeGeneres.
1:06.0	He has thoughts on all of them.
1:08.4	Enjoy.
1:09.4	Tim Dillon, how are you?
1:13.6	Good morning Megan, thanks for having me.
1:15.3	I really appreciate it.
1:16.3	Oh, the pleasure is all mine.
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