When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.
Tim HeideckerThere's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.
Tim HeideckerWhen you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
Tim HeideckerWhen anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.
Tim HeideckerI feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.
Tim HeideckerThere's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of character I've done before: He's kind of dumb and he's kind of arrogant, and a little seedy. A little coke-y. He's gotten into the cocaine or he's had too much coffee. It's been pretty fun. Not all the songs are like that but it sort of creeps in there.
Tim Heidecker