Tim Dillon might be the funniest man on the planet.

The standup comedian recently made headlines for his Ghost Of United Helthcare CEO bit during Netflix’s Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year special, which many found pretty insensitive given the man was murdered in cold blood on the street. Of course, if you believe that comedy should be a reflection of our depraved society, then it shouldn’t a surprise to you… especially given the fact that Luigi Mangione has received praise all across the country.

But during his latest episode of the always funny Tim Dillon Show, he went on one of his signature rants against these wannabe country fans. After singing a line from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Red, White, and Blue” he unleashed a hilarious rant about these new country music fans who’ve latched on to country music like some kind of Republican dog whistle.

But Tim also concedes that there’s nowhere else to go for white bros in the Northeast with no cultural identity:

“Since we’ve gone to war, every white person is a massive fan of country music somehow, because country music was the only place over the last 4 years of craziness that welcomed Whitey. So now everyone I know, whether they’re from Greenwich, Connecticut, they are LARPing as a huge fan of country music and it’s disgusting. And I like country music, and I have a lot of respect for that culture. But there’s something weird about guys from Connecticut who spend the day golfing really into country music.

It’s just the emptiness of this particular culture we’ve created. I’m not saying you can’t appreciate country music, that if you’re a white guy from the Northeast, the only music you can get into is country music. There’s nothing worse than seeing a guy who played tennis all day at a country western bar line dancing. It’s a little disgusting.

There’s something automated, but it’s what happens when one cultural space says, ‘yeah, you can come here and chill and just be white and it’s cool.’ And then all the other cultural spaces go, ‘you’re a demon from hell and we hate you.’ And that’s why all of these f***ing people that I know who have zero overlapping with the kind… and it’s like, guys, what’s going on here? What’s happening?

I like country. I love James McMurtry. I mean, I love a lot of these guys, but these syrupy, metrosexual country stars… like Bo Burnham, that great bit about it, you know, but it’s just interesting. There’s something weird about the the white culture that isn’t functional. And there’s something about when, when white people start to get confused and start like pretending they’re like ranchers. Like people do it in California. There is no cowboys in California. Okay, take your ironic cowboy hat off in Malibu, it doesn’t exist. Okay? And so you have this like dearth of like any meaningful stuff coming out because what really, I mean it used to be like we had Nirvana, we had cool sh*t, but now you just don’t see a ton of that, right?

o like country music is a genuinely organically American genre of music with incredibly talented people. The other option seems to be either rap, which is great or just this kind of pop, corporate… whatever. So I think if you want anything that has an instrument like a guitar or any type of it’s country music and there’s nothing wrong. I’m just saying it’s very interesting watching that become the only cultural identity for people that I know from Jersey who leave an Italian restaurant and start blasting country music. There’s something interesting about that. Many will study it, many will write about it and they will not credit me.”

He ain’t wrong… I mean, there’s definitely cowboys and ranchers in California, a lot of them actually, but Tim later clarified that he was referring to areas like Los Angeles and Malibu.

And perhaps the most hilarious part is that after these past 4 years of chaos, and Trump’s subsequent victory, a lot of these dudes in Connecticut, New York, Chicago, name your city with a high concentration of Liberals…  finally feel empowered to be a Republican, straight, white, male, throw on some cowboy boots, start talking about growing their own vegetables, drive a truck, and crank up Tyler Childers… only to find out that he leans hard to the left. Then they find out about Jason Isbell, Tim McGraw, and the original country music outlaw, Willie Nelson… they all lean left. It’s just funny.

And to echo Tim’s comments, it’s just an interesting cultural dynamic to witness in real time.

And I grew up in small town Illinois, very country town full of farmers, lived in downtown Chicago for 16 years of my life where I met and became friends with people from all walks of life, and now I life in lake country, Wisconsin, which is probably where both worlds meet in some ways… but to see country music as popular as it has ever been, when I could barely find another soul to go to a country concert with me 10 years ago… is, as Tim put it, “interesting.” To see dudes across the country jumping on the country bandwagon, it’s just… interesting.

And hey, I welcome all into the fold… if you wanna play golf all day at your daddy’s country club, and then meet me for a beer at the Cody Jinks show later that night… by all means, come on. But don’t get it twisted, that’s NOT an invitation for every pop singer in America to throw on a cowboy hat, start singing about horses, and call yourself a country artist.

The art of country music is special, it’s sacred… the fandom, it’s just not. There’s a weird subsect of country music fans that want their favorite acts to play bars forever, never get famous, and then they can hold on to that “I like obscure artist” as the core of their identity. It’s weird, get a hobby… Turnpike blew up, I’m happy for them, you should be too. Get over it.

Source: www.whiskeyriff.com

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