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> Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative direc
by adzm 6mo ago
> Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.”
> Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy.
> “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview.
- throwawayq3423 6mo agoBirds aren't real 2.0 I love it.
- kvuj 6mo agoRight up with the crypto scam that followed it. Great. In case you didn't know, the creators of Birds aren't real rug pulled and stole millions with their crypto coin.
- triceratops 6mo agoIf true, you have to admire their commitment to the bit. I didn't find anything about this though.
- nemomarx 6mo agoYou want to look for Enron - they bought the hostname as part of something
- triceratops 6mo agoI saw a couple stories about that which suggested it was a parody shitcoin. Even if not, the name Enron should've been an obvious clue.
- throwawayq3423 6mo agoI was unaware of that, disappointing.
- jasonmp85 6mo ago[dead]
- arrakeen 6mo agoheidecker has been honing this persona for years now in the On Cinema universe. looking forward to this quite a bit
- mrhottakes 6mo agoHe understands the modern conservative male mindset better than anyone, it's amazing
- frumplestlatz 6mo ago[flagged]
- phillipcarter 6mo agoSpoken like someone who isn't aware of any of his work :)
- turtlesdown11 6mo agoand another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
- frumplestlatz 6mo agoYou’ve illustrated the point spectacularly.
- knowaveragejoe 6mo agoHe's closer than you might appreciate.
- frumplestlatz 6mo agoIt’s interesting how selectively applied standpoint epistemology serves in furtherance of exactly one standpoint.
- underlipton 6mo agoHis brand of comedy is very hit-or-miss for me (the best way I can describe it is "smug"), but context drives me to wish him luck in his presumed efforts to turn InfoWars into a literal joke instead of just a figurative one.
- djmips 6mo agoI would describe it as absurdism.
- underlipton 6mo agoThe two aren't mutually exclusive. Neutral third party Gemini T. Google, what say you? Tim and Eric's Title Explained By calling the show "Awesome" and "Great" before the viewer has even seen it, Tim and Eric lean into a persona of unearned confidence. Neat. For contrast, this is what I'd call absurdism without being smug: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fsqavpoijjhr21.jpg https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fs...
- djmips 6mo agoI can see that - kind of like Will Ferrell has reflected on playing dumb people who are extremely confident. So I feel smug does slot in there but I don't feel like it defines it.
- datsci_est_2015 6mo ago“Tinkle Outside the Binkle” is exactly something Tim would say.
- red-iron-pine 6mo ago"Neutral third party Gemini T. Google" yeah public traded companies that donate heavily to the GOP are neutral
- fasterik 6mo agoMy favorite recent thing from Tim Heidecker was him interviewing Fred Armisen in the style of Bill Maher. The parody is uncanny. I could see him doing a really good Alex Jones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ha6D1LQGD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ha6D1LQGD4
- freediddy 6mo agoI think it's better if they keep all the URLs as they are right now, but then add misinformation into each page and put a big banner saying that this site is parody. Then search and AI will index this and then it will another lawsuit from Alex Jones to get the information removed from those alternate sources.
- solarkraft 6mo ago> then add misinformation into each page As opposed to the current factual information?