![]() One of the first things Bob did was say, “You guys need to make another Tom Goes to the Mayor“-because we had 10 of the very first version we did. Almost everybody we approached, and in a traditional way. Did they approach you or did it happen the other way around? You guys have worked with a lot of big talent- Jeff Goldblum and John C. They all seem pretty stock, but I was just a kid living in the suburbs, so I didn’t have access to very much. Robin Williams, when I was young, of course. I was also a big Woody Allen fan, especially his books, his short stories, and his early movies. ![]() What other comedy acts or comedians could you not get enough of growing up?įrom a very early age, I was really taken with comedy in all of its forms: Monty Python, The Young Ones, Three Stooges, etc. Who are you guys? Who do you know? Where are you at?” And it started this great relationship. Show, and we were such fans of that, so we thought, “Maybe he’ll be into this.” And he was. There weren’t really that many people we liked. So I was sitting at a desk, in an office, nothing glamorous, and I was on the Internet looking up people we admired, just trying to figure out how to send stuff to them. There was no YouTube or Funny or Die for us to upload stuff to at the time. We were really so outside of the business. I think it was only after college when we were making stuff and having fun that it started becoming its own little brand.Īnd then you guys decided to send your stuff to Bob Odenkirk. We were going to film school to become directors of movies, not comedy guys. I think all of the comedy stuff in our life was considered recreation as opposed to a career move. We lived together in Philly for a couple of years, so there were countless drunken nights of clowning around and making little videos and prank phone calls. When did it become apparent that the two of you could make a career out of comedy? But in class we both thought, “Hey, this class seems a bit ridiculous”-it was some theory class, like the history of broadcasting or something-and we started goofing off and we kind of connected through a couple of other guys-just making jokes and passing dumb notes back and forth-and I immediately realized that these guys were really funny and cool. I was little intimidated by them because they seemed like a gang of some kind. I was like, “Whoa, those are some interesting characters.” So it was like four guys who were sort of straightedge, hardcore punk, and they immediately stuck out. Obviously, he was a noticeable character right away: about eight-and-a-half feet tall and into the straightedge scene. We lived on the same floor of the dorm building and we had the same classes because he was studying film as well. Tim Heidecker talked to Maxim about his new show’s future, the big business of comedy, and the first time he ever laid eyes on his partner in crime. Though a definite departure from the work fans know them for, Bedtime Stories is still unadulterated weirdness. “They say, ‘We should make this look more Tim-and-Eric-y.’”ĭoes the duo’s increasingly cozy relationship with popular culture mean that they’re destined to become less ‘Tim-and-Eric-y’ themselves? If Bedtime Stories with Tim and Eric, their upcoming comic-horror series debuting September 18th on Adult Swim, is any indicator: no. “People who work for ad agencies have told us at that ‘Tim and Eric’ is a term they use in meetings,” says Heidecker. ![]() And their outlandish brand of humor has proved viable in other spheres of media as well. With hit shows like Nathan for You and Comedy Bang! Bang!, their production company AbsoLutely Productions has made up-and-coming absurdists into headliners. ![]() “They feel like they’re going crazy because everything is so shitty and dumbed down and cynical and patronizing.”īut in the decade since Tom Goes to the Mayor debuted on Adult Swim, the line between pop culture and Tim and Eric has begun to blur-due as much to the duo’s offscreen success as their onscreen shenanigans. “I think our comedy resonates with people who feel a bit ostracized from pop culture,” says Heidecker, 37. ![]()
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