![]() If your common complaint about Awesome Show was that it was insanely maximalist, this is the show for you. So, with apologies to Eric Wareheim, and in honor of the release of Tim’s new album of “somewhat earnest” songs, In Glendale, here’s a selection of Tim’s recent work that falls outside the stereotypical Tim & Eric sensibility. ![]() There’s a bunch of Awesome Show I don’t love, but it’s also been six years since that show ended, and it bothers me how many of the show’s detractors haven’t seemed to check out any of Tim’s more recent work, which finds both different and more subtle approaches to his dark, deadpan humor, much of which would be far more palatable to these critics. ![]() Naturally, then, whenever a news item pops up about either Tim Heidecker or Eric Wareheim (though usually Tim since Eric mostly spends his time behind the camera), the comments are usually full of “What do people see in Tim & Eric anyway?” messages from people who assume Tim and Eric are still doing the same shtick they didn’t like to begin with. Of course, because that show could be so intentionally overwhelming and nightmarish at times, it’s always been an acquired taste, fiercely polarizing viewers. Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! has cast a long shadow over the comedy world in the 2010s, especially when it can still seem like every alternative comedy group of the last decade or so has co-opted (or plain ripped off) their surreal, digitally decaying, local-access show visual style.
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