Tim Heidecker

And I eventually made a whole record about Herman Cain, a whole record about like as if from the perspective of like a lunatic who is a big supporter of his.

And I put it out called Cainthology.

So that was probably like my first overt like political comedy thing.

But he might not take down.

Yeah.

I think it can be both things, by the way.

I think it can be depressing and anxiety-inducing and then also very funny at the same time.

I think I love dark comedy.

I love the darkest of comedy.

And I think the best comedy reveals pain that we all experience and fears that we all experience.

At the moment when people say, how can you satirize this stuff anymore?

It's too crazy.

Yeah.

I think even if you did something where we would on office hours say, just talk about the UFC thing and talk about how crazy it is and don't try to top it, just be open about how it makes us feel and how funny it is and how absurd it is, that there's an audience of people out there who are feeling that same thing and want to know that they're not alone and they're not crazy.

And so I think there's, at the moment, I think it feels, my best answer for that is that

that just acknowledging the insanity right now is enough to make people feel like there's a community of sanity maybe out there.

And so that's kind of what satire does as I think about it, is like it acknowledges a problem or it acknowledges something that's crazy or wrong.

And it says, I see this.

And somebody just out there trying to

You know, teach kids at school or something or some nurse out there.