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
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.
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 was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.
There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.
I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.
I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.
There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.
When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.
I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.
I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.