Tim Dillon
Long Island stand-up comedian who hosts The Tim Dillon Show, a weekly news and culture podcast, and has three Netflix specials.
Comedy · YouTube · Updated Oct 21, 2026
Tim Dillon is a stand-up comedian from Long Island, New York, and the host of The Tim Dillon Show, a weekly podcast where he riffs on the news, politics and American culture. His longtime producer and on-air sidekick, Ben Avery, stopped being credited on the show in the fall of 2022, and neither of them has explained the split on the record. In September 2025 he said he had been fired from the Riyadh Comedy Festival after joking about forced labor in Saudi Arabia, per CBS News. As of October 2026 the show is still weekly, with episode #517 out on October 17, 2026, and its YouTube channel has about 1.3 million subscribers.
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Questions people ask
Who is Tim Dillon?
Tim Dillon is a stand-up comedian, podcaster and actor from Long Island, New York. Before comedy he gave New York City bus tours and spent just under a year selling mortgages, and he started stand-up shortly after his house was foreclosed in 2010, per Time Out in October 2017. He hosts The Tim Dillon Show, which his site says averages about a million viewers a week across video and audio; guests have included Andrew Schulz, Chris Distefano and Ari Shaffir, per the show’s feed. This entry is about the comedian, not the All My Children character or anyone else named Tim Dillon.
What happened to Tim Dillon and Ben Avery? Why did his producer leave the show?
Ben Avery was a longtime on-air regular on the show: episode notes name him from at least October 2019 (#171), and the notes credited him under the joke title “Ed McMahon” through #316, The Off Season, released September 18, 2022. From #317 with Louis CK, released October 2, 2022, the credit is gone, and no episode notes since have named him, per the show’s feed. As of October 2026, neither Dillon nor Avery has explained the split in major or trade press that we could find, and the show’s notes never addressed it. Fan channels repost clips of the two on air, but those are not a source for why he left, so we do not guess.
What happened to Tim Dillon? Is The Tim Dillon Show still on?
Yes. As of October 2026 the show still comes out every week; #517 was released October 17, 2026, per the show’s feed. Since March 2026 the notes have pointed listeners to a “Friend Of The Show” membership for weekly bonus audio. The biggest story around him in the last year was the Riyadh Comedy Festival in September 2025 (below). In May 2026 he discussed his show at the Netflix Is A Joke festival on #495, per the same feed.
Why did Tim Dillon get fired from the Riyadh Comedy Festival?
On his August 30, 2025 episode (#459) he talked about his booking at the festival in Saudi Arabia, joked repeatedly about forced labor there, and said that while he would not disclose his own fee, $375,000 was the figure for one show, per Mediaite on September 1, 2025. On #462, released September 20, 2025, he said he had been fired. Per CBS News on September 24, 2025, he said his manager told him the organizers had heard those comments and did not like them, and in his words, “I addressed it in a funny way, and they fired me.” The festival ran September 26 to October 9, 2025. CBS could not verify the $375,000 figure, and his representatives did not respond to its request for comment.
What happened to Tim Dillon’s book?
He announced a comic memoir, Death by Boomers: How the Worst Generation Destroyed the Planet, but First a Child, about growing up with two Long Island boomer parents. The show’s notes carried a pre-order link from May 2023 (#348, where he discussed the book with Tom Segura and Christina P.) to late October 2023 (#367), then dropped it, per the feed. A bookstore listing still shows an April 30, 2024 publication date, and the About page on his site still says it will be published later in 2024. As of October 2026 we found no report in major or trade press of the book coming out or being delayed, and he has not explained it in anything we could source.
How much money does Tim Dillon make?
He does not publish his income. The only figure he has put on the record is the Riyadh one: in August 2025 he cited $375,000 for one show at the festival while saying he would not disclose his own fee, per Mediaite, and CBS News could not verify it. The other number in his show notes is a running joke: for every $400,000 the show grosses, it donates five dollars to end homelessness in Los Angeles.
Why does Tim Dillon always wear sunglasses? Why the polo shirts?
He has not given a reason for either in anything we could source, so we are not going to guess.
What movies and TV shows has Tim Dillon been in?
He has three Netflix specials: A Real Hero (2022), This Is Your Country (2024), a Jerry Springer style special about the run-up to the 2024 election, and I’m Your Mother, which premiered April 15, 2025 per his show notes. On film he appeared in Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving and Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, and he had a set on Netflix’s The Comedy Lineup in 2018, per New Jersey Stage in February 2026.
How old is Tim Dillon, and what is his real name?
He is 41, born January 22, 1985, per Famous Birthdays. He performs and publishes as Tim Dillon, and we found no other name in major press. He was born and raised on Long Island, New York, per Famous Birthdays, and Time Out called him “Long Island-bred” in 2017.
What about Tim Dillon’s relationships, health or personal life?
Not something we cover.
Where can I watch Tim Dillon? Is he on tour?
The Tim Dillon Show is on YouTube @TimDillonShow, Spotify and in the podcast feed; his specials are on Netflix. He still tours theaters: his site and show notes send ticket buyers to punchup.live/TimDillon, and the notes ran the American Royalty Tour name into early 2026. One 2026 stop was bergenPAC in Englewood, New Jersey, on June 20, 2026, per New Jersey Stage. Clips also run on Instagram @timjdillon and TikTok @timd.
What is Tim Dillon’s net worth?
He does not publish a number and neither do we.
Who represents Tim Dillon?
His site lists contact emails for podcast advertising and for meetings and interviews, and in the Riyadh story he referred to a manager without naming one, per CBS News. Ames Create does not represent him; we cover him because people keep asking what happened with Ben Avery, the Riyadh festival and his book, and the record on each is scattered. If that changes, this entry will say so.
Our read
Ames Create does not work with Tim Dillon. This is our view, from a team that works on creator brands for a living.
The format. One man, one microphone, a week of headlines. The Tim Dillon Show is a monologue more than an interview show: he picks the news stories and the strange local ones, then builds a bit out of each. Guests drop in, but the format runs on his voice, which is why it survived losing its longtime on-air sidekick in 2022.
Why it travels. Every episode breaks into self-contained rants with a clear target, so clip channels and his own short-form accounts can cut them without context and they still land. His Instagram alone has about 1.2 million followers, and the show’s YouTube has about 1.3 million subscribers and more than 300 million views, per Social Blade.
Brand fit. Direct-to-consumer sponsors already buy reads on the show week after week, and the October 17, 2026 episode alone carried six. The material is political and news-driven, and the Riyadh firing showed that a host can lose a booking over it. A family or tightly scripted brand is a poor fit; a brand that wants him should expect him to riff on the product, not read it.
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Sources: Tim Dillon’s site and About page; The Tim Dillon Show feed and YouTube episodes #316, #317, #459, #462 and #517; CBS News, September 2025; Mediaite, September 2025; Time Out, October 2017; New Jersey Stage, February 2026; Bank Square Books listing; Famous Birthdays. Follower counts via Social Blade, October 2026.
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