BLVR: How closely do you follow the script? EW: More than anything, you can see how the editing has changed with some comedy shows. Tim Heidecker is a U.S. actor, comedian, musician, writer and director. It’s too brutal. When we started Awesome Show, we knew we didn’t want to hire graduates from the Groundlings or Second City. You can’t avoid it, and it’s always so inane. There’s a degree of adoration that is very strong. I. Five years ago, you would not have seen the deliberate awkwardness on that show that you see now—such as actors staring at the camera for an extended amount of time. He doesn’t stick out as the biggest part in that movie. The kids were barely able to put a sentence together, but they were made to sing old standards. EW: I’m blown away by some of the shows that the Brits have made, especially in the last decade, like the BBC’s Look Around You, which features parodies of educational films from the ’70s and ’80s. Watch the rest. III. Is there much you can tell me about that? TH: Both of us came to it later. But that was made in 1977. BLVR: Watching the Awesome Show reminds me of the late-night jams that would take place in New York jazz clubs in the ’50s and ’60s. EW: Yeah—it was real. Interview: Tim and Eric Are Not Making Comedy For Their Moms Charles Webb 05/09/2012 "All the moments in the movie are made for us, and we didn't make this movie for our moms." EW: Oh, sure. There’s a few moments — what was that guy’s name that we met in LA that has a small part in it. Maybe The Kentucky Fried Movie. These vignettes were also included on the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Keenan's 2010 wine-making documentary Blood into Wine. There’s a real person up on that stage; it’s not an actor in front of the camera. We never, ever want to seem like we’re manipulating them too much. Playing next. TH: We had some performers from SNL watching our new episode yesterday, and both were like, I wish we could end a sketch the way you guys do. The show is a spin-off of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, originating in a segment called Brule's Rules. BLVR: Your philosophy sounds like the opposite of most other sketch-comedy shows, especially Saturday Night Live. It was about a hot-air balloon company run by one woman [played by Kristen Wiig]. I think we really identified with some of the really weirder, smaller elements of it. You’ve produced a few fake commercials about them—one featuring a montage of you both eating “pizza dips” to Bob Seger’s “Night Moves.”. Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim started making videos to entertain each other and alleviate film-school tedium, and wound up stumbling into comedy careers almost by accident. It’s a great feeling. I had never seen anyone curse in a sketch before, let alone say “fuck.” That show seemed aimed directly at us, almost as if Bob and Dave had infiltrated our brains. He later went on, and he had bigger parts in, like, Best in Show. Before Tim and Eric launched their monthlong tour, The A.V. They’re willing to put themselves out there, and they’re willing to make themselves look ridiculous. Describing Eric André's comedy ends up being a lot like watching the opening credits for his show: a confused jumble of comedy snippets cobbled together into a crazy quilt. Report. We have to guard against that all the time. But I think when we were out doing the Billion Dollar Movie press, we created this perception that we’re to be feared. What can you expect from a typical episode? “REAL PEOPLE, FOR BETTER OR WORSE—MOSTLY WORSE—WILL ALWAYS BE PREFERABLE.”. Verification on that please! “WHY HIDE BEHIND IRONY?” In the absurdist’s tool belt: Pizza dips VHS copies of The Al Alberts Showcase British serials Vaseline. Al was an old man who would have these four- and five-year-old kids on his show. They explained that they’d just returned from an audition for a Steven Soderbergh thriller called The Informant, starring Matt Damon and set for release in 2009. Otherwise, it’ll never be as effective. I’d attempt to summarize them, but I don’t think there’s time. They asked to try a couple things and if I had a denim shirt. Tim: Yeah, we’re getting into it in a couple weeks. I’ve seen it on Saturday Night Live. Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Photo: Chris Ragazzo, courtesy of IFC Salvaging Ideas By Changing Them Collaboratively, 2007 After Tom Goes to the … The show parodies 1980s’ public-access television programs and follows Dr. … A really uncomfortable situation. It would be a waste of time to try to do a bit with you. If they do end up winning the parts (Eric as an FBI agent, Tim as a friend of Matt Damon’s), their characters will no doubt come across as awkward, bizarre, and extremely funny in ways that are almost impossible to describe. Sometimes it’s funny, but mostly it just feels exploitative to us. BLVR: Has that changed over the years? Shop Tim & Eric merch, get the latest news, and browse archives of our projects and tour dates. I also love Brass Eye, a show that broadcast hilarious fake documentaries on everything from drugs to pedophilia. “Oh, it’s the Spaghett guys, they’re not going to do a straight interview.” Do you find that people have a hard time understanding you outside of that context? That’s the main reason we haven’t hired a professional sketch troupe for the Awesome Show. In fact, it would be really lame. Tim and Eric Interview. Eric: We tour there whenever we tour the States, and I’ve been there a couple times just to visit friends, be in the city, eat the foods, get the hot chicken, go to Robert’s. I had to try and remember what I did after watching myself on a tape. In my 15-minute chat with Tim and Eric, we discussed the influence of Guest and other filmmakers, the duo's reputation as pranksters and more. We tell them to just act normal. I always thought that was the case with Larry “Bud” Melman on Late Night with David Letterman, in the ’80s and early ’90s. Nowadays, we actually spend a lot of time going out of our way to make these videos look really awful—sort of like the local Philly TV and cable-access we loved growing up. EW: And on the Internet. David Liebe Hart (aka D.L. David is known for his beliefs in extraterrestrials (known as Corrinians). Were you drawn to film really young, and were there some particular filmmakers — aside from Christopher Guest — who inspired you, individually and both of you? An Interview with Tim and Eric Mike Sacks. For whatever reason, we both think that’s hilarious. And I think a shorter bit is better in the long run anyway—especially in this fast-paced world. You know, it’s funny, because those sound like such stock answers. Tim & Eric are sunburned from all the nude skiing they were doing at Sundance in Utah. An interview with comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim about their new Adult Swim series, ‘Beef House,’ why they wanted to make a sitcom, and how they’re handling quarantine. They screamed, “Tim and Eric rule!” and then sped off. This is an idea that sounds really lame—at least at first. Do you feel specifically you have a lot in common with Christopher Guest, or identify with him as far as artists and filmmakers who blur the line between what’s real and what’s sort of an act? And, in a creative sense, they usually bite off more than they can chew. We run digital video through the VCR to make the end-product look less crisp. An interview with comedian Tim Heidecker about his new movie ‘Mister America’ and his thoughts on being labeled as an “anti-humorist.” The show features surreal and often satirical humor, public-access television-style musical acts, bizarre faux-commercials with a unique editing and special effects style by Doug Lussenhop to make … Anything we edit, whether good or bad, really works well with this style of comedy. EW: Part of the fun, right. It wouldn’t be for someone who wanted to go see the new Rob Schneider wedding-theme film. Right, all of his characters seem kind of lonely in a way that it seems like most directors would be afraid to do that, afraid to show you that. https://www.esquire.com/.../a12476/tim-and-eric-movie-interview-6642876 BLVR: I find your material less strange than most of what’s broadcast on television: sitcoms, local TV newscasts, advertisements. Our faces are covered in Vaseline. I saw one video on YouTube recently of a fat teenager performing a version of our “Sit on You” dance from Awesome Show. The joke was that this guy didn’t know any of the answers, but pretended he did. It seems like there is genuinely a lot of thought in all the projects you guys go into. Do you find that people don’t expect you to have as much of a creative process as you do? Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim want you to know they're not high. Everyone is so desperate to be a star. Why Tim And Eric Are Voting For Donald Trump In 2016. (Also part of the Film:Masters program will be Sandra Bernhard talking Purple Rain and The Black Keys' Patrick Carney talking Caddyshack; more on that in our Fall Guide film section.). We were never into bringing people onto the show and mocking them. We emerged on our own terms, in our own way. But I have to buy the book to know what the seven steps are? I feel like we did. 15 Snaps. They sent some of their absurdist, uncomfortable bits to Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk, who helped them usher the dry, divisive, often wonderful Tom Goes To The Mayor onto Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. How could we have said no? Interview. And that was just great to see. They'll appear tomorrow, Sept. 11, at OZ Arts Nashville as part of the Film:Masters series, where they'll discuss Christopher Guest's brilliant 1996 bar-setting mockumentary Waiting for Guffman. When you have freedom to fail, both as a writer and performer, you have more chances of succeeding. We sent each of them early versions of Tom Goes to the Mayor. Tim and Eric were there watching me and at one point Eric told me what I was doing was not sexy.
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