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| ▲ | arrakeen 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| heidecker has been honing this persona for years now in the On Cinema universe. looking forward to this quite a bit |
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| ▲ | fasterik 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My favorite recent thing from Tim Heidecker was him interviewing Fred Armisen in the style of Bill Maher. The parody is uncanny. I could see him doing a really good Alex Jones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ha6D1LQGD4 |
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| ▲ | throwawayq3423 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Birds aren't real 2.0 I love it. |
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| ▲ | kvuj 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Right up with the crypto scam that followed it. Great. In case you didn't know, the creators of Birds aren't real rug pulled and stole millions with their crypto coin. | | |
| ▲ | triceratops 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If true, you have to admire their commitment to the bit. I didn't find anything about this though. | | |
| ▲ | nemomarx 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | You want to look for Enron - they bought the hostname as part of something | | |
| ▲ | triceratops 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I saw a couple stories about that which suggested it was a parody shitcoin. Even if not, the name Enron should've been an obvious clue. |
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| ▲ | throwawayq3423 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I was unaware of that, disappointing. | | |
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| ▲ | freediddy 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think it's better if they keep all the URLs as they are right now, but then add misinformation into each page and put a big banner saying that this site is parody. Then search and AI will index this and then it will another lawsuit from Alex Jones to get the information removed from those alternate sources. |
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| ▲ | solarkraft 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > then add misinformation into each page As opposed to the current factual information? |
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| ▲ | underlipton 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| His brand of comedy is very hit-or-miss for me (the best way I can describe it is "smug"), but context drives me to wish him luck in his presumed efforts to turn InfoWars into a literal joke instead of just a figurative one. |
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| ▲ | djmips 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I would describe it as absurdism. | | |
| ▲ | underlipton 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The two aren't mutually exclusive. Neutral third party Gemini T. Google, what say you? Tim and Eric's Title Explained
By calling the show "Awesome" and "Great" before the viewer has even seen it, Tim and Eric lean into a persona of unearned confidence.
Neat.For contrast, this is what I'd call absurdism without being smug: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fs... | | |
| ▲ | djmips an hour ago | parent [-] | | I can see that - kind of like Will Ferrell has reflected on playing dumb people who are extremely confident. So I feel smug does slot in there but I don't feel like it defines it. |
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