Tim Heidecker: Irony, Comedy and the Internet | Doomscroll

For me personally, the rise of Donald, what's his last name? >> Making a lot of jokes. Implicit political critiques. Yes.

>> Sometimes just a [ __ ] post to annoy people. >> I was in New York during 9/11. I had nothing to do with it >> just cuz I was there. I could name many people whose art I love who've done terrible things.

There's nobody in culture that mattered >> that was anywhere near the right. >> Right. Right. >> Nick just wasn't.

>> He goes, "I have a friend who's very rich. Very rich. You know who he is, but I won't say very fat. Very fat guy.

Very neurotic." And you're like, "I'm in." Like, tell me all like, "Keep going." >> Welcome to Doomscroll. I'm your host Joshua Citerella. My guest is Tim H Highdecker, a comedian, writer, actor, and director. He is the host of Office Hours.

Let's talk about the beginning of your career for a little bit. Um, I promise this will link back. I have I have an idea to explore, but if you could tell me about making television, making comedy when you first started out in the, let's say, mid as what was that environment like? How did someone make a TV show at that time?

Eric and I, my partner Eric, who I made most half of my work with now these days, uh, we were just out of college and we thought of ourselves as sort of serious filmmakers or wanted to be in movies or make movies and sort of recreationally we'd make stuff just to make stuff and, you know, the technology was pretty primitive back then in the late 90s, early 2000s. So, we kind of used what we had and thought that was pretty funny. You know, there was this kind of a lowfi aesthetic to it that nicely dovetailed with the fact that we didn't have anything hi-fi to work with. So, we were just like embracing the lowfi.

And we sort of had this identity between us where we were this very self-promotional very uh in a funny way and just sort of a at the time in 2000 there was kind of the dot boom >> bubble >> right >> and everything was dot everything was very um technic technology and computers and internet and the interweb and we ...