Tim Heidecker

Yeah.

I think I instinctively said no when you said it wasn't political.

I think in a sense it was.

It had a point of view that had a set of values attached to it, I think, that looked at consumer culture mostly.

capitalism, and found some sort of nihilistic, cynical, it was a very cynical look at our modern world, which I think is a political point of view.

We didn't get into current events and didn't mess with the news necessarily.

So I've always been that way.

Most of the people I work with come from having a very progressive politics about them, a bunch of artists and weirdos and musicians and

comedians at the time I mean obviously comedy's gone in a very strange direction recently but I guess I would say the first five or six years of Tim and Eric was very much about Tim and Eric not Tim Heidecker or Eric Wareheim it was about this like you say a brand a uh

comedy duo that really didn't involve our own personal lives in any way, very much in character.

That got a little tiring for me or it got a little restrictive.

So I think, honestly, back to the good old days of Twitter, I think Twitter, if the youngins can comprehend this, used to be kind of a fun place.

It was a...

really funny and fun place.

And I also found it was a way that I could talk about what was going on in the world very quickly.

I can react to things.

And then there was just stuff happening in politics that felt very Tim and Eric-y, or it felt very much like my kind of humor.

There was a very... Herman Cain ran for president.

He was the CEO of Godfather Pizza.

And