And this was a space for learning and growing, but I was like, Oh, I should try to parody that, and go up there and do your classic brick wall comedian with confidence those people seem to have, but without anything enlightening to say.Ĭomics say once you reach a level of success, it can be difficult to work out material, because people are just happy to see them. But I would notice people would come up, and they had the cadence of comedy, the rhythms of it from observing other comedians, but they just never had any material. He used to do a friends open mic-y show in Glendale, and I used to go and try different things. He's also just a lover of jokes, he has a funny standup routine. ![]() My friend Doug who does Office Hours with me, and is one of my closest friends and great collaborator and editor. It's funny because my record is Fear of Death and this is "Fear of Dying Onstage," which he does pretty consistently throughout the hour. To connect the two, your music album was about the fear of death, and this standup character is the kind of guy who thinks it's funnier to make fun of a new gender pronoun than confront that we're all going to die and nothing matters. Hopefully it the perception that I have a diverse output. It appears I'm extremely prolific and busy with all these different things, but they all were done at different periods of time. Tim Heidecker: It's a bit-what's the word for it, when you twist your head too far-it's disorienting. VICE: How does it feel dropping a project like this, when your last work-a folk-rock album titled Fear of Death-was surprisingly earnest? ![]() VICE spoke to Tim Heidecker over Zoom to talk about An Evening With Tim Heidecker, his recent folk-rock album, and his thoughts on standup comedy as an artform.
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