Tim Heidecker
Tim Heidecker
Timothy Richard Heideckeris an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician. He is one half of the comedy team of Tim & Eric, along with Eric Wareheim. Heidecker and Wareheim are noted for creating the television shows Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth3 February 1976
CityAllentown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.
I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.
I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.
I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.
On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.
There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.
My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.
I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.
I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.
I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.