Tim Heidecker Quotes
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I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.
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Just because we can shoot something that looks like a movie doesn't mean we should. Sometimes if something looks too good, it's not funny. Some things need to look good, because we think it's funny that you'd spend so much time and be so precious about such a stupid idea.
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The scariest thing about screening a comedy ... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.
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When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.
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We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.
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It's never fun to read death threats.
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A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.
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I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.
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There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.
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I used to work in an office in New York for this terrible company, and we used to have staff meetings, and I would just count how many times the boss would use the phrase "in terms of." And he would say it like 30 or 40 times. And sometimes he would just say it. He'd be like, "Uhh, in terms of, how are we doing with that?" I realized nobody knows what they're talking about. Everyone's bullshitting. Maybe not everybody, but certainly a lot of people.
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At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.
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I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
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I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.
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I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.
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I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.
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Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.
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There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
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I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
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Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.
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When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
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Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.
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Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.
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When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.
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When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.
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We are making fun of stuff. It is subversive, I think, and in many ways political. It's a reaction against the society we live in, very much so. When we make a commercial for a product that doesn't do anything.
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There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.
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Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.
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I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
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Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.
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When you travel, specifically for our show, you get inspired by rest stops, Cracker Barrel. Middle-America people are perfect.
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