

This is Tim Heidecker, and this is my Brief But Spectacular take on why people should pay for things. When you pay for something, those people get to have livings. When you stop paying for the content at the end, you can - you have to stop paying people to make it in the beginning. We work with costume designers and set decorators and cinematographers and editors and producers, and people that we like to pay, because they like to eat. I want to take them out for dinner and get to the bottom of where all that anger is coming from.Ī got a tweet the other day from a gentlemen who said, your “Awesome Show” is not awesome, and I regret having BitTorrented it, which is otherwise known as illegally downloading.Īnd it’s little bit like going into a motorcycle shop and stealing a motorcycle, and driving it back and saying you don’t care for the way it hums or something, whatever motorcycles do.įor a lot of kids, it’s so easy to just hit this button and you immediately get this thing. I tend to have this bad habit of engaging only in people that hate me and my work. We’re trying to make people laugh, and sometimes that doesn’t work out.

People describe our show as absurd, offensive, disgusting, anti-comedy, which is something I don’t believe in. Your kids might know me from “Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” and a number of other Tim & Eric related projects. If you have ever seen the film “Bridesmaids,” I play the groom in the film, very - I think I have one line in the movie. You may not know me, but I’m sure you have seen me. Here he lays out why we should pay for entertainment we get online. His latest record, “In Glendale,” was released last week. Tonight, we hear from performer Tim Heidecker, best known for his part in the absurdist comedy duo of Tim & Eric. JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally, another installment in our Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask interesting people to describe their passions.
