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> Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.”

> Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy.

> “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview.

arrakeen 4 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

mrhottakes 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He understands the modern conservative male mindset better than anyone, it's amazing

frumplestlatz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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phillipcarter 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Spoken like someone who isn't aware of any of his work :)

turtlesdown11 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.

frumplestlatz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You’ve illustrated the point spectacularly.

knowaveragejoe 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He's closer than you might appreciate.

frumplestlatz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s interesting how selectively applied standpoint epistemology serves in furtherance of exactly one standpoint.

aaronbrethorst 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

that's a lot of syllables.

fmbb 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well there is exactly one truth.

RajT88 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In this case, there is exactly one true scotsman.

frumplestlatz 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure. But one cannot claim to know have an infallible insight into what that truth is.

DonHopkins 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Trump does, why can't he too?

landl0rd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Two people can both be wrong. President Trump also has nothing to do with this unrelated truth claim.

UltraSane 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Trump lies constantly

trial3 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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DonHopkins 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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davexunit 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Tim Heidecker... from?

djmips 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_%26_Eric

davexunit 3 hours ago | parent [-]

From Decker vs. Dracula

mewse-hn 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Only a real film buff will appreciate this

lexandstuff 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Of course Hacker News would be full of Greggheads.

fasterik 3 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

throwawayq3423 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Birds aren't real 2.0

I love it.

kvuj 4 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 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If true, you have to admire their commitment to the bit.

I didn't find anything about this though.

nemomarx 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You want to look for Enron - they bought the hostname as part of something

triceratops 4 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.

throwawayq3423 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was unaware of that, disappointing.

jasonmp85 an hour ago | parent [-]

[dead]

freediddy 2 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.

solarkraft 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> then add misinformation into each page

As opposed to the current factual information?

underlipton 4 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.

djmips 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I would describe it as absurdism.

underlipton an hour 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.
Yeah.

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...