Tim Dillon (comedian)

Dillon was born and raised in Island Park, New York. He is of Irish descent.^[2]

As a child in 1994, he landed a small role on the PBS children's show Sesame Street. Dillon said on The Joe Rogan Experience, "I was a child actor as a kid and I failed. I was on Sesame Street twice. I did the polka with Snuffleupagus."^[3][4]

Dillon attended Nassau Community College and won a Bronze Award in Impromptu Speaking in 2005.^[5]

Before becoming a professional comedian, Dillon worked as a New York City tour guide.^[6] He entered the stand-up scene around 2010. After a 2016 appearance at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal,^[7] Rolling Stone named Dillon as one of the "10 Comedians You Need to Know" in 2017.^[8][9] Along with Luis J. Gomez and Nick Mullen, Dillon was also a co-host of the Real Ass Podcast spin-off podcast Bastard Radio in 2020.^[10][11]

Vulture described Dillon in 2016 as "simultaneously a boisterous, conservative-leaning Long Island native and a thoughtful, homosexual foodie with a soft spot for frozen yogurt."^[12] Rolling Stone in 2017 described him as "capable of formulating an articulate (and often contrarian) opinion about anything at a moment's notice."^[8]

In August 2022, Dillon released his first standup special: Tim Dillon: A Real Hero.^[13]

Dillon said in 2016, "I'm politically all over the map, though I lean conservative",^[20] and "I don't think politically I line up with anything."^[12] He said he did not vote in the 2020 U.S. elections, disapproving of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.^[21]

He interviewed Republican vice presidential nominee, JD Vance, on his podcast, the week before the 2024 United States presidential election.^[22][23]

As of March 2021, he resides in Los Angeles, after briefly living in Austin, Texas.^[24] At age 25, he came out as gay.^[25]