![]() In shopping it around, a lot of the normal places, ironically, did not have a great sense of humor about stand-up comedy. So we said, “Let’s just shoot a special,” because I had built up a nice set that I thought was fun and funny. Obviously, the stand-up world is not my primary focus it’s one of the many weird things I do. I had been doing that act for about ten years. I was wondering if you could start by talking about the journey it’s taken since then? Vulture chatted with Heidecker over Zoom about the cringey stand-up sets that inspired the character, developing the act on the road with Neil Hamburger and on YouTube with Brett Gelman, and his earliest mindfuck open mics. But because the real Heidecker knows how pathetic this is, the special is hilarious - and, from On Cinema to Tim’s Kitchen Tips and beyond, Heidecker’s become something like the poet laureate of delusional assholes. Ever since his earliest tight fives in 2007, he’s honed a routine of non-jokes about Coke and Pepsi, but the paper-thin act usually devolves into tantrums toward the unsuspecting venue crew or audience.Īs Heidecker fumbles with the microphone or yells for silence while trying to nail inept wordplay, the special seems like a document of a meltdown: His personal life is in shambles, and it’s hard to see what’s left for him beyond a dream that’s already dead. In his first stand-up special, which debuts on YouTube tonight, Heidecker, as is often the case, plays a warped man who happens to share his name - a leather-jacket-clad, “truth-telling” comic with none of the talent, but all of the narcissism and aggression. Tim Heidecker in An Evening With Tim Heidecker.Īn Evening With Tim Heidecker lives up to its title: a full hour in the company of a character who is absolutely not up to the task.
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