#Tim heidecker for free

“Anecdotally there were people that were like, ‘Yeah, I wasn’t really too familiar with your music, but it was surprisingly good!’ So that’s always a nice thing to hear.”Īlong with Office Hours, his Adult Swim show On Cinema, and the Showtime series Moonbase 8, Heidecker’s latest project is one of many in recent years without his longtime comedy partner Eric Wareheim, who has been focusing on making wine and writing cookbooks. “I don’t know how anything works for general audiences but my crowd shows up and they’re up for it all,” he says, enthusiastically, ahead of his first run of shows this past weekend at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles. It’s just attitude.”īefore this summer, Heidecker had never done a proper tour of either his intentionally bad stand-up material or his surprisingly sincere music. “Watching Trump, I started being influenced by that kind of braggadocio, that kind of swagger that’s totally undeserved,” he explains.

#Tim heidecker for free

“I had dabbled in stand-up comedy earlier in my life and it was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman,” he recalls, describing the tape of those early performances he has buried away somewhere as “the Rosetta Stone of embarrassment.”Īfter watching comedians get up and “bomb so badly” week after week, he decided to try bombing on purpose as a sort of “prank.” But it wasn’t until he started watching Donald Trump’s campaign rallies in 20 that he thought he might be able to turn the material into an hour-long special, which he ultimately released for free on YouTube just before the 2020 election.

Heidecker started performing deliberately terrible stand-up comedy about 15 years ago at a weekly open mic night hosted by a friend.

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