![]() ![]() And especially when you’re around people you’re comfortable with. I think we all can be jerks and assholes at certain times. TIM HEIDECKER: JP, our tour manager, who I’ve worked with for many years, and who I’m very close with-we are picking up some VHS tapes for Gregg, which we sell at the show, and Gregg is finding them at various thrift stores as we drive all over, and Gregg really gets into it, and he’s going on about some horrible movie we found, and I look at JP and say, “The funny thing is, there’s a lot of Gregg in Gregg.” And he looks at me and goes, “There’s a lot of you in Tim!” And I go, “Really?” And he’s like, “Yes.” From where do you draw this character of “Tim Heidecker”? Is it just an exaggeration of you? Some element of who you are? THE BELIEVER: In your show On Cinema at the Cinema, you play a vapid jerk who goes by your name. ![]() We met over coffee on the sunny patio of a new Whole Foods in Brooklyn, near the venue where his On Cinema at the Cinema Live! show concluded its recent tour of the East Coast. His production company, Abso Lutely Productions, has launched brilliant shows like Nathan for You and The Eric Andre Show, as well as ad campaigns, including the best three-minute advertisement for pizza rolls ever conceived. ![]() But in taking a broad view of Heidecker’s work, I’m not convinced this binary works anymore-or that it ever worked-as a set of stable categories for Heidecker’s prolific artistic production, which finds uncanny depth in poking fun at comedy itself by hovering eternally over the line between real and fake.Īnd there’s also his weekly call-in podcast, Office Hours, which has been translated into a live stage show-as were Awesome Show and On Cinema. Station, from his piss-obsessed group the Yellow River Boys, goes into the ironic bin In Glendale, a meditation on suburban life, goes into the sincere bin. Heidecker is also a prolific musician and has released ten albums, which some critics separate into two bins: ironic and sincere. Currently, he works with Gregg Turkington on Adult Swim’s movie-review parody show, On Cinema at the Cinema, which has spun off projects including Decker, an action-comedy series The Trial, a five-hour mockumentary about his On Cinema character’s murder trial and a real campaign for district attorney of San Bernardino County. In 2012, Tim starred in Rick Alverson’s dark comedy film The Comedy, which revealed a new, bitter color in his acting. Most famously, he’s created a universe of projects with his absurdist comedy duo, Tim and Eric, including a major motion picture (Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie ) and several television shows, the best known of which is Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007–2017). In a just world, the MCU would be a relative footnote to the OCATCU, but alas.T im Heidecker is a blazingly prolific comedian. The most interesting part is that it has ties to the MCU, since Gregg & Tim cameoed in Ant-Man & F4ntastic the same summer (Tim even paid $10,000 for that cameo just to tie that in there), so those movies are a part of the OCATC universe. I haven't watched since grad school so I need to catch up before watching this. Anyway, this is a spin-off of that, based on, like, 5 years of build-up. I believe it also has ties to Tim's musical career. This led to them in-universe making "Decker," a show that actually airs, but requires keeping up with On Cinema to truly appreciate, since elements from On Cinema's plot directly affect Decker (You can write the weirdness off as Decker just being the lowest-quality show imaginable, but to people not watching On Cinema, it's just a Tim & Eric show without Eric). ![]() The initial show was a web series called On Cinema, where Tim & his other "friend" Gregg reviewed movies that debuted each week. ![]()
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