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Fox News
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Jimmy Failla & Tim Dillon Talk About The State Of Comedy On 'Fox News Saturday Night'
Comedian Tim Dillon sits down with Jimmy Failla on Fox News Saturday Night to discuss his new stand-up special, 'I'm Your Mother'. PLUS, check out the podcast if you missed any of Friday's show!
CNN
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Kevin Spacey resurrects his ‘House of Cards' character for Tim Dillon Netflix promo
Frank Underwood is back, albeit briefly. Actor Kevin Spacey reprised his 'House of Cards' character in a video that comedian Tim Dillon released to promote his new Netflix comedy special. 'My new special is out on Netflix right now,' Dillon wrote in the caption. 'Give it a watch.' Spacey, in character as Underwood in the promo, tells the comic and podcast host, 'You podcasters think you've inherited the kingdom.' 'Whispering in ears, swaying elections, spinning the truth like it was cotton candy, when in fact, you're nothing but a bunch of clowns juggling boner pills and hair tonic,' Spacey says in the video, titled, 'I'm Your Mother.' Dillon replies, 'Frank Underwood? I thought you were dead!' The pair volley a bit before Spacey slides an envelope toward the comedian and says, 'I need you to go on your little podcast and say this.' Dillon replies that he doesn't do 'political endorsements' to which Spacey threatens Dillon with embarrassing information about his Door Dash orders. 'These photos you gave me, I've posted them all,' the comic tells Spacey. 'I'm on the internet. We don't have blackmail. We have content. We're all demons from hell.' 'There is no limit to your duplicity, to your pandering, to your shameless and desperate desire to cling to relevance,' Spacey in character continues. 'You are my kind of bastard.' Netflix cut ties with Spacey on 'House of Cards' series and his scenes in the Ridley Scott film 'All the Money in the World' were reshot by the late Christopher Plummer after Spacey was accused of sexual abuse. Spacey has denied any allegations of improper or criminal behavior and in 2022, he was found not liable for battery against actor Anthony Rapp. CNN has reached out to representatives for Spacey and Netflix for comment about the new video.
The Hill
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hill
RFK Jr. should use troops to close fast-food joints, Tim Dillon jokes
Comedian Tim Dillon, a friend and supporter of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is all for Kennedy's attempts to get Americans to eat healthier through his ' Make America Healthy Again ' agenda. In fact, he'd love to see Kennedy close fast-food restaurants with armed soldiers. 'I think he should go into fast-food restaurants with the military and shut them down. I think he should take people off the line at Chick-fil-A at gunpoint,' Dillon joked with 'On Balance' host Leland Vittert on Wednesday. 'If I were going to go to Taco Bell but I knew that RFK would be there with the military, I might think twice about it,' he added. Kidding aside, the comedian said Kennedy faces an uphill battle while challenging what Dillon calls the 'junk food industry.' 'These are mega-, multi-national conglomerates with a lot of money who are very well-funded, and he's got his work cut out for him. It's going to be very hard,' Dillon said. Kevin Spacey promotes Dillon special The podcast host of 'The Tim Dillon Show' has a new Netflix special, 'I'm Your Mother,' which is now streaming. To help promote the program, actor Kevin Spacey appears in a short ad reprising his 'House of Cards' role as political powerbroker Frank Underwood. Spacey, who also endorsed Kennedy in the last election, was effectively exiled from the entertainment industry nearly a decade ago amid allegations of sexual misconduct. He was acquitted of criminal charges but still faces a civil lawsuit overseas. The actor has denied wrongdoing and reportedly is attempting a comeback. Dillon said he hopes the actor's reappearance is a sign the pendulum has swung away from 'cancel culture.' 'People are just tired of banishing people,' he said. 'People are imperfect, they're flawed. They make mistakes.'
Telegraph
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Why Netflix should make peace with Kevin Spacey – and bring back Frank Underwood
Easter is, traditionally, the time for unexpected but welcome comebacks, and so it is not without precedent that the supposed-deceased character of Frank Underwood from Netflix's House of Cards, played so memorably by Kevin Spacey, has popped up once again, in unusual circumstances. The comedian Tim Dillon, who is releasing a new show on Netflix, I'm Your Mother, has put out a brief promotional video in which he interacts with Underwood, at his most diabolical. From his opening remarks – 'You podcasters think that you've inherited the kingdom…whispering in ears, swaying elections, spinning the truth like it was cotton candy, when in truth you're nothing but a bunch of clowns, juggling boner pills and hair tonic' – it is clear that Underwood, and by extension Spacey, has returned with a vengeance. The video is only a relatively short one, at two and a half minutes, but it is packed with good lines, whether scripted by Dillon, Spacey or AN Other. There is then some suitably tongue-in-cheek menacing back-and-forth between the two, as Underwood attempts to blackmail Dillon for past indiscretions ('While at a hotel in Milwaukee in 2023, you called a Taco Bell, just to talk') and then, when asked to plug Dillon's Austin-filmed comedy show, the ex-president replies 'Austin? I don't care if you filmed it on Mars, with Elon Musk!' My new special is out on Netflix right now. Give it a watch. — Tim Dillon (@TimJDillon) April 15, 2025 Yet it is all in vain. Dillon turns the table on Underwood by revealing that he has not only acknowledged his past indiscretions, but positively revelled in them, putting them out into the open to entertain his audiences. ('We don't have blackmail, we have content!') The skit ends, as it must, with a dig at Dillon's new home; when he says that his show is on Netflix, Underwood shakes his head and says 'You foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach…but I love it.' The existence of the sketch is one of the more surprising things to have emerged in recent years. Dillon described making it as 'lots of fun', and said on Instagram that 'Netflix didn't know we were doing it, but they've been super cool about it.' Referring to House of Cards, he mused 'That was a really fun show that they did, and they should bring it back and redo season six.' Many would agree with him. Up until now, Spacey has been persona non grata in Hollywood after a succession of trials and civil cases for sexual misconduct and sexual assault. Although he was acquitted in a high-profile criminal case in London in 2023, which appeared to put an end to the matter from a legal perspective, the number of allegations against the actor and director have been critically damaging to his reputation, and have meant that he has not found any mainstream work in years. The last film of any substance that he appeared in, 2018's Billionaire Boys Club, was released after the first unflattering stories had emerged, and flopped at the box office in consequence. Since then he has appeared in low-budget British and American films that nobody but the most committed of his admirers would have sought out. The likes of Control, Peter Five Eight and the forthcoming The Contract (in which, ironically enough, he plays Satan) are not going to trouble your local Odeon, or, indeed, your Netflix account. The fact that Spacey has reprised his Underwood role with the tacit approval of Netflix is somewhat unexpected, given his extremely complex relationship with the streamer. When the first series of House of Cards was broadcast in 2013, it was event television – starring as it did the double Oscar winner opposite Robin Wright as his wife Claire, and being executive produced by Spacey's former Seven director David Fincher – and all the more notable for being one of the first original scripted dramas that was broadcast on the platform. Had it flopped, it is unlikely that there would have been the plethora of shows that followed (so no Adolescence, no Crown, no Stranger Things) but its Emmy-winning, critically lauded success seemed to suggest that Spacey, and his signature menacing delivery, was one of the biggest draws on television. It changed the face of streaming drama with A-list lead actors, an Oscar-nominated director and big-budget production, paying the way for everything that came subsequently. Spacey won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Underwood, and under normal circumstances, it would have remained his signature role, to be reprised whenever a new series was called for. This did not come to pass. The streamer was not only aghast at the allegations against Spacey, but announced in 2017 that 'Netflix will not be involved with any further production of House of Cards that includes Kevin Spacey.' The production company MRC sued Spacey for $31 million for breach of contract – a sum that was later reduced to $1 million after several appeals – and cobbled together a final, underwhelming sixth season that saw Claire Underwood become President after her husband's off-screen death. It received mixed reviews, all of which concurred that, without its Machiavellian lead, the show was not the same dynamic force that it had been before. Spacey, meanwhile, seemed unwilling to say goodbye to Frank Underwood. He had a brief and bizarre phase of releasing annual YouTube videos of himself in character as Underwood every Christmas Eve, entitled 'Let Me Be Frank', in which he denied the allegations against him, threatened vengeance against his tormentors and, perhaps most strangely of all, offered the number of a suicide hotline for anyone who had been adversely affected by Covid. Once his legal issues were resolved, Spacey returned as Underwood for a longer, in-character conversation with the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on Christmas Eve 2023, in which he directly addressed the audience in a plea to allow him to run for the presidency, all over again. Amusingly, Spacey-as-Underwood not only claimed to have invented Netflix's signature 'tudum' sound, but said, blurring the lines between character and performer, 'It is bizarre they decided to publicly cut ties with me on allegations alone, allegations that have now been proven false. Because I don't think there's any question. Netflix exists because of me. I put them on the map and they tried to put me in the ground.' He may have a point, but the actor may find that his only high-profile work these days comes when he reprises his Underwood role. And Spacey will surely be hoping that rapidly changing social and political stances in Hollywood will be playing into his hands. At the peak of his fame and success, Spacey was a well-known Democrat supporter who was often seen in the company of his friend President Clinton, and who lost no opportunity to mock Donald Trump. In 2016, while presenting a charity auction at Cannes, he joked: 'Foreign films contain two things Donald Trump hates the most: foreigners and reading' and had remarked the previous year to chat show host Stephen Colbert that he had a very specific imagined confidante for his character's monologues: 'When I'm looking directly into that camera I'm talking to one person and one person only and that is…Donald Trump.' Yet now, with a new ethos in America – with Netflix boss Ted Sarandos just one of the many figures in the entertainment industry who is keen to curry favour with the president, rather than to scorn him – Spacey appears to have taken a different tack. Not only are Dillon and Carlson both conservative or, at the very least, Right-leaning libertarian figures, but Spacey's friendship with Trump's current favourite commentator, the British writer Douglas Murray, saw him appear at Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre in October 2023. Still can't get over Netflix's hashtag and sound #TUDUM is from Kevin Spacey's fist pounding the White House's desk in House of Cards. — Pretty Viraj (@KrisLovesMovies) September 26, 2021 Murray gave a talk on the iniquities of cancel culture, in memory of the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, before Spacey delivered a speech from Timon of Athens, which was greeted with a standing ovation. Murray pointedly observed afterwards that the speech was about what 'happens when a society drops a person for no reason.' There are many who would welcome a Spacey comeback. Last year, this newspaper's columnist Allison Pearson interviewed him, around the same time that a Channel 4 documentary, Spacey Unmasked, made further allegations against him, which have remained unresolved. Several well-known figures from the entertainment industry, including Stephen Fry, Liam Neeson and the director Trevor Nunn, suggested that the time had come for the actor to be forgiven and welcomed back into the fold. As Fry said: 'There is not the faintest chance that he will so much as tap a stranger on the shoulder in future. I am pretty sure most people have got the measure of his past behaviour, but very, very few believe he should be continually pilloried and jeered. Unless I'm missing something, I think he has paid the price.' Humane and thoughtful words, but, as yet, nobody in Hollywood appears to be listening. Spacey – a notably intelligent and thoughtful man, as well as a wickedly funny and talented mimic – is still a much-invited guest in both London and the United States, where he has a considerable number of friends in private life. But paid work appears to be impossible to come by. Just after his acquittal, I was, by chance, sat next to him and Nunn in a London restaurant, where the conversation was of potential roles (including, naturally, Timon) that Spacey might perform at a British theatre. He seemed genuinely excited at the prospect, and any London or repertory stage would be lucky to have the actor in a great classical role. Comebacks do happen. Mel Gibson, who appeared to have torpedoed his career not once but twice, returned with the Oscar-winning Second World War masterpiece Hacksaw Ridge, and has continued to act prolifically and to direct, most recently with the Mark Wahlberg airborne thriller Flight Risk. Johnny Depp, who seemed to have been exiled to obscure independent cinema, is filming his first Hollywood picture in years, Snow White director Marc Webb's Day Drinker. The actor may not be whistling while he works, but it still suggests that he has been forgiven by the industry after one of the nastier, mud-slinging legal battles in living memory. Even Armie Hammer, who was accused of cannibalism, of all things, has resumed an acting career, although Uwe Boll-directed B-movies entitled things like Citizen Vigilante are a far cry from his Oscar-winning pictures such as The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name. But all these people, once pariahs, are back in work again: an indulgence that has not yet been offered to Spacey. Perhaps the appearance in the Dillon video is simply a one-off and that is all his latter-day career will be; self-parodying brief appearances reprising his most famous role, Or maybe a brave and daring film-maker with clout – Fincher is the obvious one, but the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson or Greta Gerwig are equally possible – will insist on casting him in their latest picture, and the studio, curious to see whether the actor is still toxic or whether he has been forgiven by the wider public, will acquiesce. While few would argue – and Spacey himself would concur – that his off-screen and off-stage behaviour was not perfect, he has undergone considerable punishment for his behaviour. But even fewer would argue that a true return for Frank Underwood would be the TV event of the decade. There might be one more twist yet to come in this particular saga.
The Independent
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Kevin Spacey resurrects House of Cards role to promote new Netflix comedy special
Kevin Spacey has again resurrected his House of Cards character, Frank Underwood, to help promote a new Netflix comedy special. Despite Underwood being killed off before the sixth season of the Netflix drama, following allegations of sexual misconduct made against Spacey in 2017, the actor has revived the character on several occasions since, mostly around the festive period. Spacey, who was found innocent of nine sexual assault charges by a UK court in 2023, is now back as Underwood in a short promotional ad for comedian and podcast host Tim Dillon's new comedy special I'm Your Mother. The advert begins with Dillon ranting to someone on a phone call, before Spacey as Underwood chimes in, saying: 'You podcasters think you've inherited the kingdom.' 'Frank Underwood? I thought you were dead,' asks Dillion. 'I'm as dead as John McCain,' replies Spacey, referencing the former Republican senator who died in 2018. 'He is dead,' Dillon says. 'Excuse my ignorance, I meant Herman Cain,' jokes Spacey in response. Cain, a Republican party activist, is also dead having passed away in 2020. Spacey's character then attempts to blackmail Dillon by exposing the amount he has spent on DoorDash orders. Dillion responds by saying: 'These photos you gave me. I've posted them all. I'm on the internet. We don't have blackmail. We have content.' Spacey fires back: 'There is no limit to your duplicity, to your pandering, to your shameless and desperate desire to cling to relevance. You are… you are my kind of bastard. You have my endorsement, Mr Dillon.' When Dillion tells Spacey that his comedy special will be on Netflix, the 65-year-old actor replies: 'You are a foul, lonesome, evil little cockroach. But I love it.' Dillon's comedy special, I'm Your Mother, is now streaming. Spacey was exiled from Hollywood in 2017 after actor Anthony Rapp accused him of sexually abusing him in 1986. Spacey would have been 26 at the time, while Rapp was 14. Rapp's allegations were later dismissed by a Manhattan court in 2022. Spacey has since faced several more allegations of sexual misconduct over the years, all of which he has either denied or insisted were consensual. Spacey, who came out as gay in 2017 in response to Rapp's allegations, was later accused of 'insensitively' using his coming out as a way to 'disguise' his alleged behaviour. In 2023, Spacey stood trial in the UK after four men alleged that he had sexually assaulted them in separate incidents over the period between 2001 and 2013. He was again cleared of all nine offences.
