![]() The second Tim Heidecker you’ll meet is altogether different. An unwelcome guest, perhaps, but not a stranger. This Heidecker evokes words like “absurd” and tortured phrases like “anti-comedy.” If you’re familiar with the surreal humor of Heidecker’s landmark sketch series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, this man won’t feel like a stranger. That’s the one he calls his No More Bullshit character, a failed Bill Hicks wannabe who’s as clumsy with his mic as he is his punch lines. It’s the Heidecker you meet in his stand-up: a nasty, ignorant man who stomps across the stage in a green button-down, black leather jacket, and pants that can’t quite fit over his waistline. You’re probably familiar with the first-the broad strokes, if not the exact details. Sousa.The idea is that you’ll meet two Tim Heideckers, and that even though they share the same name and the same face, only one is the real version. 12, 2011: This post mistakenly identified John Philip Sousa as Philip K. That’s the essence of it.Ĭorrection, Nov. It’s about the absurdity of the idea that this guy, who is in no way shape or form fit to be running for president, let alone be president, should be taken so seriously. I’d rather take my chance at the apocalypse in the next couple of years than when I’m 70 or 80.īut what these Cain songs are supposed to do is show how absurd certain elements of the process are. ![]() Let’s bring on the end times! Let’s get it over with now so I don’t have to do it in 20 or 30 years when I’m older and weaker. If Herman Cain became president, there’d be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me. ![]() In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I’d like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. If you’re thinking about it as a strategy, the longer this guy stays relevant and a potential nominee, the better that is for liberals because it just weakens the other side. I’ve been quoting it and retweeting it, altering some of the words for comedic effect-doing it from the perspective of someone who refers to him as “my lord.” A little earlier, he tweeted something like, “Hey, there’s a bunch of snow on our bus in Michigan!” And I retweeted that, but after snow, I added in parentheses: “Cocaine.” It looks like Herman Cain just tweeted, “We just had a bunch of snow (cocaine) on our bus!” It’s just a fun thing to do, and I have no problems ethically with distorting truth or facts about this guy, because I feel like they’re shoveling it the other direction in much more quantity than I ever could. Now, a lot of people on Twitter have done this before, so I’m not saying I’m the originator of it. But actually, I just figured out a new fun thing to do with Cain. I mean my fans, some of them at least, are getting a little tired of it and annoyed that I’m hogging up their Twitter feeds with this business. Heidecker: I would love to stop working on this. Slate : You’re using past tense-you’re not writing songs about Herman Cain anymore? It is, Heidecker says, hopefully the last music he will write about the GOP’s fading frontrunner. The result: Cainthology, the first album of Cain music not by Cain himself, with proceeds going to the VIP Medical Clinics for Abused Children and Community Mental Health Center. Over the next 15 days he recorded eight more songs, all absurd, all in slightly different styles-skiffle (“King Cain”), riff rock (“Cain is Able”), gospel (“Pray for Cain”), and spoken word with an electro beat (“My Master, My Master”). Fueled by Vietnamese iced coffee, he recorded a minute-long jingle for Cain, an inexplicably odd ballad with hints of Jandek and John Philip Sousa. Almost immediately, fans of the absurdist comedy duo Tim and Eric (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim) started tweeting at them, saying it looked like the kind of intentional schlock they would have put on their show. On October 24, Herman Cain’s campaign released an impenetrable Web ad featuring the candidate’s chief of staff, a cigarette, a wall, and a slow-motion head-turn set to patriotic music. ![]()
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