Fireside Chat with Tim Johnson (Johnsonverse)



Fireside Chat with Tim Johnson is an American talk show/sketch show that premiered on February 27, 2011, and airs on WBC. Starring Tim Johnson, the show features announcer and sidekick Bill Burr, and music performed live on-set by Fab Morvan and the Johnson Band.

Premise
In addition to featuring sketches parodying a vast array of subjects (for example, Alec Baldwin reprising his role as Donald Trump from Saturday Night Live and Tim portraying a stereotypical Millennial who thinks the world owes him a living), the show also features Tim sitting down and talking in a serious tone about recent events. It's also in these serious talks that Tim has expressed many of his controversial opinions. He also reviews various non-Johnson shows, movies, and games, which are intentionally biased for comic effect; occasionally, though, he'll give a positive review to something he personally found good (such as Crazy Rich Asians and Undertale), or viciously tear into legitimately bad works (for example, his entire review of the now-banned Teen Titans Go! was a 15-minute rant against the writing staff for directly attacking and insulting their critics, and also theorized that the series was being used as a weapon to kill any show the Cartoon Network higher-ups deemed inappropriate or unprofitable, as well as the twisted morals being used to poison the minds of children and turn them into criminals; this episode aired days before Johnson acquired CN and Tim's theory was proven right). Each episode has Tim talk to seven celebrity guest stars.

COVID-19 outbreak
When the COVID-19 outbreak spread to the United States, Fireside Chat initially taped without an audience. However, when quarantine orders were put into place, Johnson instead started filming the episodes in his house.