Manhattan Strip Clubs: "The Life & Times Of Tim" Creator, Steve Dildarian, Explains How He Went From …
… I think he’s more like an alter-ego,” Dildarian said. “I think if you followed me around you’d be a lot less entertained than when you follow Tim.”
Dildarian doesn’t have any experience with hookers, drunken priests, rabble-rousing coworkers, or most of the things Tim encounters in his daily life. Instead, he comes up with ideas for Tim’s world by drawing on his experiences living in New York when he was 25, and adding the bizarre conflicts he wished – or wonders if – could have happened.
“The show is very character driven; it’s about getting inside people’s heads and thinking of things through, like, a stripper’s point of view or a homeless person’s point of view,” Dildarian said. “I typically do not engage in these conversations in real life, but here is a young guy having detailed conversations, if not arguments, with hookers and a priest and cops, and finding the humor.”