Tim and Eric Awesome Article (Great Job!)
If there is someone between the ages 14 and 21 living in your house, there’s a very good chance, unbeknownst to you, that in that young adult’s universe Tim and Eric enjoy a secret (and unrivalled) superhero status. If you are between 14 and 21, you already know that Tim and Eric are the funniest people in the world, wildly irreverent and inappropriate — and irresistible, like watching breast augmentation surgery on the Discovery Channel is irresistible.
But chances are you’re over the age of 21 and you’ve never even heard of Tim and Eric, arguably the two most important comedians on television today. Your ignorance probably means you are relatively serious and you are steadily employed. Great job! On the other hand, it indicates that you are dangerously out of touch with your children, your children’s friends and the millions of Americans tuning into Tim and Eric every week. Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! — the hit live-action sketch-comedy series on the Cartoon Network — probably isn’t for you. In fact, if you’re a voracious reader, a connoisseur of fine art, politically informed and even marginally pious, then perhaps you should stop reading right now. However, if David Lynch makes you laugh, brown is your favorite color and you know what “bit torrent” is, Tim and Eric might be just what you’ve been looking for.
For the past five years, Tim and Eric have taken cult status to a new level. They are a favorite among college and high school students across America, but strangely enough, their most vocal fan base consists of fellow comic actors. As a result of this popularity (and camaraderie), Tim and Eric routinely incorporate comedians and actors like Patton Oswalt, Will Forte, Weird Al, John C. Reilly, Michael Cera, David Cross, Zach Galifianakis, Flight of the Conchords and Rainn Wilson into their skits. Lines from sketches such as “Spagett” and prank calls to Macy’s department store are being uttered with the reverence once reserved for the great poets. Kids across the country, emulating their heroes, are mounting their own “Cat Film Festivals.” To fans, the faux-gritty “Mustache Movie” might as well be Mean Streets. The world of Tim and Eric — low-fi to the point of no-fi— is shaped by experience: In their case, miniscule budgets, crappy equipment and the conviction that if what they’re doing at least makes the two of them laugh, they are off to a good start. At worst, it’s satisfying a happy audience of two.
The kids in high school who somehow got away with everything, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim — from remote Allentown and Audubon, Penn., respectively — sit in an even more remote corner of contemporary humor, (think of them as second cousins to Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat and Bruno), where Eugene Ionesco and Vince Shlomi (the “ShamWow” guy) might have collaborated to distill something equal parts absurd and uncomfortable. In fact, discomfort is their stock in trade. An alternative to previous generations of ironists, polemicists and slapstick artists, “discomforters” derive as much satisfaction from the sweat stains under your arms as from your laughter. And a half-hour with Tim and Eric — on the aforementioned T&EAS,GJ! — makes you ponder the big questions (like the meaning of life) every bit as much as a half-hour reading Lao Tze, Kant or Wittgenstein, only you don’t need a dictionary.
Twelve years ago, Heidecker and Wareheim were film students at Temple University (Bill Cosby’s alma mater, though his influence on their work is profoundly unfelt). There, they shared an ambition to “make stuff” and a generally bemused (and amused) attitude toward Temple’s decidedly less-than-state-of-the-art equipment. That exposure to “low-tech” and the charm of DIY mentality would become an integral part of the Tim-and Eric aesthetic, (a funny word to apply to their sensibility, but a word sure to make them laugh.) After college, where a taste for Godard ran parallel with a love for prank calls, they made the trek to Hollywood where they both interned as production assistants. Eric describes the experience warmly: “We both hated it; it’s a brutal system. So we went back to the East Coast and got jobs.” Eric went to Philadelphia where he worked as a photographer shooting weddings and bar mitzvahs, and Tim left for New York where he landed a job as an assistant at the Entertainment Software Rating board, “a nightmare job” with a “psychotic” boss. From their respective cities they maintained a partnership — now online — taking advantage of Eric’s substandard video editing equipment (with “the worst filters and the worst effects”) and Tim’s unlimited (and illicit) access to the office copy machine for flyers advertising the pair’s early work.
In 2000, “Tim and Eric,” the team — and brand — was formalized. A Web site, timanderic.com, was conceived. “At that time, you could make fun of the Internet,” Tim reminisces. This early work led to a development deal in Los Angeles, enough money to fly here, get a house and write an episode. And, crucially, it gave them the chance to work with their idol, indie comedy legend Bob Oedenkirk. Eric reserves especially kind words for Oedenkirk. “He held our hands through the Hollywood world. He was amazing. He said, ‘Here’s what’s going to happen. These guys are going to want you. Tell them to fuck off. Be nice to this person.’ We didn’t know anything about this scene.” Tim adds, “He also taught us so much about structure and script and telling stories. You know, we had never done anything like that before. Even though there are stories, they’re like condensed sitcoms. It still has the same structure.” What is striking about both Tim and Eric is their generosity in praising other comedians’ and potential competitors’ work. There is not a shred of competitiveness to be found in their dialogue, nor any snobbery. They speak admiringly of their peers: Bobcat Goldthwaite, Robin Williams and Tommy Wiseau all elicit kudos during our conversation. And schadenfreude, Hollywood’s grotesque engine, is as foreign to Tim and Eric as a million-dollar budget.
The show — the plum of Cartoon Network’s programming — has gone by various names: Tom Goes To The Mayor (with effects so crude they appear to have been created with an old mimeograph machine), and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, among them, and has featured dozens of recurring segments including the “Channel 5 Married News Team,” commercials for the “Cinco” brand of hopelessly useless products (such as the “Encyclopedia of Numbers” and “My New Pep-Pep” — a mannequin sold as a surrogate grandfather complete with “Thanksgiving scent”), the “Vodka Movies” and “Uncle Muscles Hour,” which featured a nightmarish song called “I Don’t Want To Go To School” — a problematic little number that has haunted anyone who has heard it since the segment first aired two years ago. The show is entering its fifth year of production, and Tim and Eric, who exhibit no signs of flagging, continue to conceive and produce human-interest pieces from mankind’s outermost fringe; all this work leading inevitably to … Tim and Eric: The Film.
In person, Tim and Eric surprise you with their gentleness. They are polite, articulate and thoughtful. Though there is some of a classic yin-and yang dynamic, personally — Tim the quieter and more guarded, initially, and Eric, the more voluble and trusting — the two of them have remarkably consistent tastes and priorities. The friendship and partnership appear seamless; they exchange the roles of writer, director and producer (not to mention composer) as deftly and ego-lessly as the Coen brothers. All of this is not to suggest, however, that there is no creative “rub.” Though there have been no “physical” moments (Eric’s very funny word), Tim is candid: “I think, relatively speaking, it’s been pretty good considering the amount of time we have to spend together. We are very different people, but we manage to make it work.” Nor are we talking about highbrow humor here. Tim and Eric can’t resist anything scatological; a portable enema machine and upcoming sketches called “Diarrhea-phragm” (“which is a kind of a dam”) and “Diarrhea-betes” (in which “Tim’s going to have ‘diarrhea-betes,’ and I wipe him down with a towel and the towel is all brown”) attest to the pair’s fecal preoccupation. Indeed, mentioning the word “brown” makes them both laugh out loud. 
Particularly impressive is their shared disdain for being constantly “on.” They have clearly delineated private and professional lives, and, unlike the Chris Farleys and John Belushis, they can go home — in Tim’s case, to his wife — and turn it off. That said, Eric admits under pressure that one of his best friends did tell him, “You are not having a good time unless everyone at the table is talking about you or the show.” Tim’s response? “At a dinner? Usually we’re the most interesting dudes.” For all the extravagance of their humor (much of which is at their own expense), what emerges from a conversation with Tim and Eric is a sense of the seriousness with which they approach their work, their relationships and their futures. For two small-town Pennsylvanians with fairly meager resources at their disposal, they have, quite incredibly, become paragons of cool to an entire generation. 
So, if you should wander into your teenager’s room and discover him suddenly sporting a 12-inch beehive (in which he hides miniature bottles of vodka) or her munching on a Cinco’s “Candy Tails” — chocolate-flavored hair extensions made from real horse hair — fret not. Your child is merely emulating his or her favorite role models: Tim and Eric. And while you might wish it were Barack Obama or LeBron James or Carrie Underwood or even Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag they admired — or Liz Cheney for Christ’s sake — don’t worry. You’re in good hands. Tim and Eric feel a keen responsibility to their fans. They know that popular music has been so compromised by the music business that rock stars are no longer, well, rock stars, and that movie stars are nothing more than cartoon characters with all four fingers and a thumb on each hand (albeit hands equipped with spinnerets), and that athletes contain more steroids than the chickens in our markets. They realize it is now up to comedians to help a younger generation tell their parents, “This is my time. Get out of my room. Fuck off.” Which is, after all, a rite of passage as old as time.
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Comments
06/18 at 05:40 AM
Tim and Eric are by far the funniest guys on cable TV. I saw their live show in Detroit and it was amazing. Hope they are more appreciated soon too.
06/18 at 06:21 AM
“But chances are you’re over the age of 21 and you’ve never even heard of Tim and Eric, arguably the two most important comedians on television today. Your ignorance probably means you are relatively serious and you are steadily employed. Great job!”
Ya blew it! I am 27 make way more money than most 40 yr olds and have been into T&E;since TGTTM. If you wanna see the real demographic for T&E;visit the Awesome Tour. You will find that there is no demographic. There is kids that are 18 and there are grown ass 45 yr old “adults”(maybe a stretch using that word)wearing “Rats Off to Ya!” Tees.
Though it seems inevitable, I personally hope they arent greedily raped by corperate Hollywood, and I sont think T&E;will sell out there vision. So put on your D-Pants, eat a Cinco Napple and wait for season Cinco!
06/18 at 07:20 AM
The demographic has gotta be off. Every single 27-33 year old can quote Awesome Show chapter and verse. At the Knitting Factory gig I went to in NYC, there wasn’t a person under 25.
I put them up there with the Marx Brothers. Unadulterated genius.
06/18 at 08:16 AM
Yea, I agree. Everyone I’ve ever met who love this show, were 21+.
That said, this is my all time favorite show. PERIOD! I love you Tim and Eric, I really do. You’ve changed my life.
06/18 at 08:35 AM
I’m 22 and I LOVE t&eas;,gj. I also saw their live show here in Denver and was BLOWN AWAY! They are so amazing! The kitschy filming techniques that they use as a sort of slapstick comedy has completely changed the way I think about making film. Because of the techniques they use to film and the little socially awkward gestures of the content the humor is such a good low brow / high brow dichotomy. Great job.
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needs more Breadheads
06/18 at 08:46 AM
This is a great article!
I’ve been a fan since I was 16ish.
I’m a youngish fan. I have met a lot of older people
who like the show, but I think that’s just because
they are more active in the fan base community.
Younger fans are preoccupied with other things
or probably have some constraints because of parental figures.
That’s what I’m guessing.
Anyway,
I’m really glad I found out about T&E;because they have really made my life a lot more enjoyable.
I honestly don’t think I would have been able
to find the shows or anything if it wouldn’t
be for the internet involvement as well (I’m not a big TV watcher).
Cheers!
06/18 at 08:48 AM
Whoops, I typed that comment up too quickly.
It has some grammatical errors!
DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO IT!
And,
I also saw them in Denver.
It was a wonderful night.
There’s a good energy,
and they were very kind.
Even after exhausting themselves
on stage.
06/18 at 09:06 AM
I’m 37 and I’ve loved them from the start. I spread the word of T&E;all the time. I’ve probably turned two hundo chippies onto them. Right, Pep Pep?
06/18 at 09:16 AM
My husband & I watch that show…we’re both older than 21. The whole tone of this article was like it was written by a weekly’s intern. All this person did was to (poorly) explain the sketches. The photos are were amazing though!
06/18 at 09:21 AM
Salame!
06/18 at 10:00 AM
I’m 39 years old and I’ve seen Tim ‘n Eric’s live show twice here in Atlanta. Fecalcentric it may often be, but these guys are genius at creating the Absurd and pushing boundaries. They’re the shit!
06/18 at 10:12 AM
I am female and in my late 30s. Many of the younger people (under 25) I’ve meet don’t “get” them/ their humor. Pizza Party summed up what I was going to say regarding this article and its’ photographs.
06/18 at 03:40 PM
Spaghetti and meat balls!
06/18 at 06:51 PM
We dont get T&E;in Aus, so I need to ‘acquire it’ through the internets. Its slowly getting a following as I push it on to more and more people.
Im 37 and most of mates who watch it are the same age. I dont know of any under-20 who watches it yet over is Australia.
Its truly brilliant humour in my opinion.
It really is
06/18 at 07:58 PM
For someone like me raised in the 80’s/90’s and growing up with the dawning of the internet, Tim and Eric are the only people actually SPEAKING to me right now. Their humor is something most baby boomer’s wouldn’t get, simply because they grew up with Howdy Doody or HR Puffinstuf. For kids raised on ruthless commercials, obnoxious infomercials, and all the sitcom cliches you can stand, Tim and Eric was made for you.
06/19 at 12:29 PM
The show isn’t a “half-hour”. It’s fifteen minutes. High praise for a show you’ve never watched.
06/19 at 04:30 PM
I miss my wife. I got a dick that just don’t smell so right.
06/19 at 09:11 PM
love tim and eric. but this article by tony berg blows. blows chunks. blows so bad it should be rated a class 5 tornado. no, fuck it, class 6!
06/20 at 09:49 AM
This article is horrible. It literally goes against everything I know about Tim and Eric. And as already mentioned by everyone, the demographic is way off. God, this article sucks. Typical bull shit that is perpetuated about them…
06/21 at 02:31 PM
The title to this article is so fucking uninspired (I bet you thought it was clever, didn’t you Tony!?) that it was an immediate red flag that the author doesn’t know DICK about these comedy heroes.
06/22 at 04:40 PM
Tim & Eric RULE.
06/22 at 05:55 PM
Acquired taste of the highest order, I don’t think many teenagers watch this show, and I would guess many that do laugh at the shock as opposed to the subtleties that makes the humor unique. Pop comedy has been dumbdowned (Jim and Derrick) to sickening levels. T&E;are leading the revolution of the thinking mans critique on the absurdness of mainstream appropriateness. What’s even more suprising is that no one has yet tried to copy them, only collaborate.
06/22 at 06:18 PM
Tumblers better than pumpers. I LIKE TUMBLERS!
(age 36, postdoctoral researcher in biology)
06/22 at 07:54 PM
I love you, chippers!!
06/22 at 08:23 PM
I went to the same high school as Eric (albeit a few years later) and I can assure you that he was working with sub-par editing and film equipment well before he got to college. I’ve been watching T&E;since that first episode of TGTTM and have been loving it the whole time. It really reminds me of the stupid ass videos me and my friends made all through high school. Also, I had just turned 22 the year TGTTM first aired.
06/22 at 08:25 PM
tony tony tiny time town
06/22 at 08:44 PM
I’d like to thank my pal Ton Loc Bergle for mentioning me and also for mentioning plum. I don’t know who these Tom and Eric guys are, but I’m glad they admire my work.
06/22 at 09:10 PM
I have to make a conscious effort to alter my mindset after watching T&E;. Otherwise the world is distorted to awful and intense extremes and I really shouldn’t be driving.
Alan Thicke was on the show. You know; “Thicke of the Night”. It’s like I don’t even know what to do anymore.
06/22 at 09:26 PM
hey, I’m a fun loving single who’d love to mingle
call me up all you pup pups
06/22 at 09:28 PM
Very well written article. Gotta love Tim & Eric! Check out Erics old band (or one of them), Ink & Dagger who respectively changed the face of punk and hardcore music. Also, they were vampire-themed
06/22 at 10:32 PM
Great Job
06/22 at 10:35 PM
CRACKERS AND SNACKS CRACKERS AND SNACKS
06/22 at 10:59 PM
changed my life…thanks tim and eric.
06/22 at 11:53 PM
I like my Tim and Eric after a warm bath with a little Monovie. I will agree that this article was about as entertaining as the closing credits of T&E;episode. Crappy Article bad job!!!
06/23 at 12:42 AM
I’m 30, Swedish and have been into T&E;since Tom Goes to the Mayor! Where do I fit in?
06/23 at 05:21 AM
These guys are going to be to comedy what the Pixies were to music. They will influence future generations of comedy.
06/23 at 06:46 AM
I’ve been a fan since they were still in Philly (where I live); read an article about them in the City Paper (?) that immediately prompted me to order their first DVD, a compilation of their early videos (the ones now available on their website). I love their absurdity.
06/23 at 07:50 AM
You cracked her over the head with a coffee pot!
06/23 at 08:20 AM
After I read the comment about the 30 minutes of T & E, I read the rest of the article through a filter. This article seemed to be based on a research asst’s notes. But any publicity…
I am in my late 40’s and took my 10 yr old daughter to the live show.
We both had a great time, good job!
ps. Bob O rules!
06/23 at 08:55 AM
I’M *42* AND LOVE THE SHOW.. NEVER MISSED AN EPISODE~ ! :D) OTHERS I KNOW IN THEIR 30’S AND 40’S ALSO WATCH IT…............................
06/23 at 10:41 AM
Worst Tim and Eric article yet. If Tony watched the show, he would know that it’s about eleven minutes long, not thirty.
Article seems to be written from a notion that T&E;do toilet humor for an audience of babies.
06/23 at 11:04 AM
I honor Tim and Eric with shrimp and white wine parties.
06/23 at 11:27 AM
Hey Tommy,
Great to hear from you. Yes, those Chess King days seem like a lifetime ago now. Can you believe it was actually 20 years ago last week that I first started work there? Wow, I’m getting old.lol I’ve got to tell you, you’re still the best boss I ever had and I’ve never enjoyed working at a job more than being a sales associate at Chess King. Heck, I still remember the A.N.S.W.E.R.lol I think Chris Miguel had a poster of it on his bedroom wall while he was working there, which shows how dedicated he was to being the sales leader/third key.lol I lost touch with him after college, along with most of the gang. Jess and Karen are about the only two I’ve been able to keep in touch with in recent years. As for me, I’m still living in Jersey, though I’d LOVE to get the heck out of here and move to Alaska or Wyoming. I’ve just gotten really tired of the over development and overpopulation here. It doesn’t help that we have the highest property taxes in the entire country.lol I’ve bounced around a lot career-wise since grad school. Funny that you mention you’re an assistant principal. I was actually a teacher for 6 years, but it wasn’t the job for me. My parents, who were teachers for almost 80 years combined, could put up with kids A LOT better than I could.lol After I left the field I studied at Stella Adler in NYC for about a year to get my acting chops back from my days as a film/drama major at college. I acted in a few indie flicks and did some background work on some studio films, but nothing to write home about. I originally went to college to be a screenwriter, which is still my dream. I’ve written a bunch of screenplays, but have never been able to make the right connection in the field. My first novel, Last Christmas, came out last year, but screenwriting is still my first passion. Being single with no kids makes it MUCH easier to be a “struggling” writer.lol If I had married my ex, I definitely couldn’t have continued pursuing my dream. How do like working as an assistant principal? I’ve heard the education system in NYC is MUCH better than it is here in Jersey, where it’s rife with corruption. I bet you’re a great assistant principal, as you always had such excellent management skills. Didn’t you used to teach college classes at one point or am I remembering that incorrectly? Do you still keep in touch with anyone from the mall days, like the manager from Free Fall or the one from the Willowbrook Chess King that you used to be friends with? It’s amazing how so much has changed since then. The Plaza is a completely different mall now, nowhere near as nice as it once was, at least in my opinion. On top of that, no more Cavariccis, BUM Equipment sweatshirts, Hypercolor t-shirts, muscle pants, or black Reeboks.lol Nothing will ever be as good as the 80’s. Well, I think I just wrote my second novel, as this email is FAR too long, so I better wrap it up. Hope you have a great week ahead of you. : )
06/23 at 11:34 AM
D’oh, sorry about that, I accidently copied the text from an email I had sent and hit send when I meant to copy the text I had actually written above. Well, welcome to my world.lol
Yes, I am an idiot.
I meant to say that the age range of that the original article mentions is way off. Everyone I know who watches the show is in their twenties to late thirties. When I saw T&E;in NYC on tour, not the last one, but the one before it, the average age of the people in the crowd was late twenties. The fact that the author didn’t even know it was a fifteen minute show just proves he’s clueless in regard to T&E;. He probably thinks all of the shows on Adult Swim are aimed at kids, which couldn’t be further from the truth.
06/23 at 11:38 AM
Tim and Eric rule! Their comedy is an acquired taste, mostly appreciated by those of us old enough to get their “jokes. That email above was funny. I wonder if Tim or Eric posted it as a joke, as it would fit their offbeat style. The 80’s were awesome!
06/23 at 11:43 AM
Tim and Eric are absolutely brilliant ... I particularly love the video WANKIN (performed under the pseudonym ELI BRADEN) they did for the website FUNNY OR DIE—-
—- Also, the “L.A. GUYZ” sketch they did on their podcast (available FREE on iTunes) is an amazing rarity!
06/23 at 11:44 AM
I love Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, but I miss Tom Goes To The Mayor. I still don’t know why they couldn’t keep both shows going at the same time, as they do A LOT of other stuff other than TEASGJ. The Vodka commercials were hysterical! I actually miss the days when they were starting out on Tom Goes To The Mayor, during the first season when they didn’t have as many celebrities on. Some comedians/celebrities fit with their style of humor perfectly, like Jeff Goldblum and Patton Oswald. Zynx rule J E F F E R T O W N.lol For those of you who haven’t seen their live show, they’re just as funny in person. The coolest thing is, they usually hang out and chat with their fans for a while after their show. They’re great guys and deserve the success they’re having.
06/23 at 11:49 AM
One of the most glaring omissions that the author of the article made was to leave out any comment or praise for Tim and Eric’s supporting cast. Tim and Eric might be the comic geniuses who write and produce the show, but would the show be anywhere near as funny without David Leibe Hart, Richard Dunn, or the guy who sings “Sexual Romance”? I give Tim and Eric a lot of credit for finding all of those guys and girls, as most of them are unknowns, with little to no experience.
06/23 at 11:56 AM
I completely agree that the supporting cast really makes the show what it is. Tim and Eric might be the captains of the ship, but those “first mates” really help keep it afloat. I mean, David Liebe Hart’s puppets are freakin hysterical! Last season they didn’t seem to have the usual bunch of characters on as much, with too many guest celebs. Some of those “cameos” were awesome, but in place of others I would have rather seen more “Beach Blast” or “Corrinians”. I know they don’t want to get repetitive, but I’d still like to see the same characters and bits more, even if they’re in newer settings, like “The Dunngeon”.lol
06/23 at 12:05 PM
Adult Swim should ask Tim and Eric to make longer seasons, but then again, I could say the same of most Adult Swim shows. Just when you start really looking forward to seeing a new show on Sunday night, the season’s over and some new show is on in place of it. Adult Swim REALLY loves to torture its fans by switching up the schedule over and over and OVER.lol I wonder if Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job would be as good in the half hour format the author BELIEVES it’s in. For some reason, I think fifteen minutes is perfect for them, as it is for a lot of the shows on Adult Swim. Take the Aqua Teen Hunger Force full length movie for example. It paled in comparison to the show, as it was just too long and stretched out the premise too much. It reminded me of the He-Man movie which butchered the concept of the cartoon. No, it wasn’t that bad.lol I’d love to see what Tim and Eric could do with a full length movie though, but maybe of the Tom Goes To The Mayor variety.
Is it me, or did the author of the article seem to just do some background research about Tim and Eric on the web and then just put everything he found into an article? It really doesn’t seem like he’s watched the show or did a true interview with the guys. I mean, how do you not know the show is only fifteen minutes, or in reality a few minutes shorter than that, if you watched it?
06/23 at 12:13 PM
I can’t believe the author barely touched on Tom Goes To The Mayor. After all, it was their first work on Adult Swim and ran for two seasons. I don’t think Adult Swim canceled it. I think Tim and Eric just wanted to go in a different direction and do TEASGJ. I loved Tom Goes To The Mayor! I think it was even more original than TEASGJ, if that’s even possible.lol I’ve always wondered if they write everything on the show, even the bits for David Leibe Hart and James Quall, or if those guys do their own stuff. Whoever does the writing knows how to make all the bits funny as heck. Too bad the idiots on network television can’t find writers as original and unique as Tim and Eric. Maybe that’s why almost everything on these days is so-called “reality television”.
06/23 at 12:26 PM
How has everyone failed to mention B B Beaver Boys, B B B Beaver Boys, White Wine and SHRIMP? Come on, that’s got to be one of the funniest running gags on the show, other than Doctor Steve Brule. One thing the article’s author got right was the quality and quantity of guest stars they’ve had on. A few didn’t seem to be a good fit on the show, but most of them, like Jeff Goldblum, hit it out of the park. His bit with the Blum Man Group on the Intranet was HYSTERICAL. Then again, he was also great when they had him on Tom Goes To The Mayor. I wonder how many more season they’ll do of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job before they decide to do something completely different again. I heard Adult Swim had wanted more seasons of Tom Goes To The Mayor but Tim and Eric were kind of bored with the concept after the second season. I’m not sure if that’s true, but it’s a shame, as Tom Goes To The Mayor was probably one of the most original cartoons Adult Swim has ever had. I can’t even imagine late night television without Adult Swim. Unlike what the author said, Tim and Eric, and the sheer majority of the shows on Adult Swim are really made for and marketed to Adults, hence the name “Adult Swim”. As someone who’s over thirty, I can definitely see why us “old folks” find Tim and Eric’s comedy hysterical, but I just don’t think most teenagers would get it. The last time I was at a live performance of Tim and Eric in Mass., the majority of the crowd was in their twenties and thirties, with even a few people who looked like they could have been in their forties and fifties. If there were any teenagers there, I didn’t see them. I don’t know about those of you who saw them live in other states, but in Mass. there show was packed. To make it even better, the ticket prices were REALLY cheap. I can’t remember how much they were exactly, but it couldn’t have been more than twenty or thirty bucks a pop. If you haven’t seen them live, “you blew it”.
06/23 at 12:36 PM
I agree that the age-range is way off on this. I actually work with teenagers for a living and none of them have heard of T&E;. Ya blew it.
06/23 at 02:38 PM
First off, I love how obsessed everyone is in these comments about the supposed age range/demographic of the T&E;audience. Who cares? The real deal is, of course, T&E;re-inventing sketch TV, and bringing us endless joy in their parodies of shitty public access TV content, subpar video techniques, and inane infomercials. These guys are total geniuses, and it’s been so rewarding to watch them successfully transition from the brilliantly funny TGTTM into T&EAS;,GJ. Can’t wait for more.
06/24 at 10:09 AM
I am also 27 and have loved these guys since I found their website and TGTTM. I can’t wait for the new season! These two never disappoint!
06/24 at 10:11 PM
Looks like I am also a member of the very large 27 year old fan base.
06/25 at 11:02 PM
Wow…worst show ever. Now all of you fan boys go get a life.
06/26 at 09:24 AM
I’m 19 and have been into teric since the first episode of tgttm. i wish people would stop just quoting them. hearing people quote something and their thinking they are funny because of it is silly. also for people who aren’t familiar with their work, hearing quotes out of context is just annoying. online or at the live show, why would you quote the show to the creators of the show?
06/29 at 05:53 PM
Have seen this youngin’ from the beginning. You have only experienced a fraction of the joy we have.
Am certain more is coming, stay tuned.
And my demographic is 61.5 years. Beat that!
Truly enjoyed the 2009 tour performance in Philly. That is where I learned that I do not need the Naple, as I usually fall asleep shortly after lunch, but awake suddenly when the keyboard smacks me in the forehead.
But I might be a candidate for D-Pants.
And I do get funny looks, as many of my younger work colleagues know about T&E;.
Yo! Is that the real Steve Jobs above (6/23 1138)? Wow!
07/01 at 10:07 AM
T&E;are beautiful men with astounding senses of humour! I don’t know how they managed to come up with an entirely new style of comedy, but it absolutely destroys me. They will certainly be one of the most influential duos of the next decade, and you can even see copycats cropping up all over the place—youtube, t.v. commercials, everywhere. Luckily, T&E;are the kings of what they do and reign supreme. Sure, I’m a hardcore fan, as all owners of a “Bassfest” t-shirt should be, but when you love something you can’t help but smother it to death with affection.
“Bassfishin’ with my mothf%&king;son…he’s dead but it doesn’t mean we can’t have fun”
07/02 at 06:32 PM
I wanna
Hold your gland in my hand
I’m gonna
Milk ya like a cow
I’m bout ta
Ride and glide on yo sugah stick
And then I’m gonna take a bite
Cuz it feel so good
It feel so right
Baby
You gonna cum on my face tonight
07/07 at 10:02 PM
I wanna hop on top of Eric, and get goofy.
08/26 at 04:28 PM
Tim and Eric are comedic geniuses, and this article has a hilarious, unintentional brilliance to it. If the guy who wrote the article is a fan, it’s only because David Cross told him they were funny. Their humor is anti-humor… it brilliantly mixes Dada, Kaufman-esque humor, and David Lynch on Ritalin. So 14 year olds are into deadpan satire, and not Transformers movies and Family Guy?
Tony Berg didn’t get that Tim and Eric were making fun of him in their deadpan shtick. He appears to know nothing about them, because he’s under the impression only 14 year olds who like Family Guy know about T&E. The greatest part of this article is where he uses the archaic word schadenfreude. What a smug, adorably naive hipster. “If you’re a voracious reader, a connoisseur of fine art, politically informed” there are no words! I’m thunderstruck, because I never knew David Lynch fans were usually 14-21.
He actually compares them to Sasha Baron Cohen? Hasn’t he been in both Madagascars? He did get that their Shrek 3 promos were a brilliant joke making fun of Hollywood, right? “They speak admiringly of their peers: Bobcat Goldthwait, Robin Williams….” Classic! Wiseau did brilliantly capture what it is to be human in “The Room.” And I even liked his vision of Pig Man better. Jessica Alba was amazing in it.
This interview just proves how brilliant Tim and Eric are, and how guys who use words like schadenfreude are usually clueless douchebags.