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Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are coming back to Adult Swim in 2020 with a new multi-camera sitcom spoof, and they’re already celebrating with a live tour that just got back to the States from Australia. Beef House has five men (Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Ron Auster, Ben Hur, Tennessee Luke) and Eric’s wife, Megan, living under one roof. Each …
Tim Heidecker, last heard mocking President Trump with a new song called “Mar-A-Lago,” is reuniting with his old comedy partner Eric Wareheim for a “10 Year Awesome Anniversary Tour” to celebrate the decade since they began starring in Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! “It’s been 10 years. …
Of the more than 100 million people watching the final quarter of Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, many were taken aback by a group dancing with fanny packs all in the name of glue. Not even Crazy Glue. Nor Cragle! Twas Loctite for whom they shilled, and their faces and …
You’ve seen Tim and Eric on tour before, throwing food into the crowd and creating comic mayhem wherever they go. But what’ll happen when Oscar-nominated actor John C. Reilly joins them on the road for five weeks this fall? Well, when it’s not Reilly but his character, Dr. Steve Brule, …
Of all the awesome and great things about Adult Swim’s late-night spoofery Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007-2010), perhaps the sketches that inspired the most awe came when Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim ceded the spotlight to Dr. Steve Brule, the oafish expert of nothing, curious about everything …
Say what you will about whether Tim & Eric’s Adult Swim series was an “Awesome Show” or a “Great Job” or something else altogether. Their show within a show, Dr. Steve Brule’s “Check It Out” — starring John C. Reilly — is pretty genius. And now you can own the …
If you’re at all familiar with the work of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, then there is nothing I can write that will surprise you or change your opinion on seeing Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie. But if you’re not familiar with Tim and Eric’s comedy, then let me …
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is enjoying more exposure than ever this week, so it was curious to see one of his campaign workers put out a new TV commercial that shows him casually smoking a cigarette and being just plain weird. Not as weird? Seeing Tim Heidecker make his …
As the Occupy Wall Street movement enters its fourth week and expands to activist protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere around America, it’s becoming more difficult to dismiss this as an unorganized, unmotivated lark. In 2008, the disenchanted masses turned their minds and hearts to Barack Obama, because he told …
