We’re capable of doing this, and people seem to want this kind of style. And we get to work with our crew and try different stuff and we’re very pragmatic about what it is we’re making and what the expectations are. Oh, shit, we’re shooting our movie that week! Or something. Tim: We always hope we’re so busy that we can’t do commercials. You’re sort of Tim and Eric Incorporated. Tim: There are actually a bunch of Tim and Erics out there, doing different stuff. How do you feel about it in conjunction with your bigger and more ambitious stuff like Bedtime Stories?Įric: Tim and Eric was pretty popular in the commercials world, as you probably know, and we’ve trained two guys that look very similar to us to do this, and they kind of go out and we give them a couple of pointers and they watch some of our sketches and then they do it. You do a lot of commercials work, sort of on the side. I guess there’s a larger attempt to present the world as an absurd place, and I think we grew up on that kind of comedy and sort of a nihilistic view of the world, that nothing is sacred and nothing matters – that informs a lot of what we write and what we do. Tim: With those two particular examples, there’s a lot of display of intelligence there. Do you guys feel a drive to keep humor from being anaesthetizing? You guys got me to feel something.” You’re not just like: “Well, that was silly!” I hope you feel kind of … a little pit-of-the-stomach or something.Ĭomedy feels like it keeps getting darker and darker, since, I guess, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. Eric’s walking away and that beautiful song from Bonnie “Prince” Billy is playing and you’re just like: “Oh, shit. I feel like shit now because that guy just got buried alive.” And at first there were some laughs, and then the laughs started dying out, and then by the end of it the credits rolled and everybody kind of sat there going: “What the fuck. Tim: With a lot of the episodes, it starts light and ends dark, you know? We watched, I think, the whole episode, one of the first ones we did, with an audience. Things are funny, but things are still terrible. Nobody fixes a huge problem in 30 minutes on an Adult Swim show. You guys have a really interesting venue in Adult Swim, where things are allowed to be dark. And he does want to fix it! He wants to be near his family and he wants to cure himself. He just has a really, really dark problem. My character, in Sauce Boy, is a normal dad. He has to go through life making these decisions. The dad is a pedophile, but there’s no way he can not be a pedophile. We don’t want to be too heavy handed with our grim outlook on the world, but we want it to be about something and to make you think about something.Įric: I was thinking about Sauce Boy this weekend, and it reminded me of Happiness, the Todd Solondz film. With this show, we try to balance some of those darker, more philosophical ideas or views of the world with actual humor and crazy concepts and performances that are a little out-there and weird. If part of your life involves doing something that’s despicable to you and the people you know, you’re stuck with that. Tim: A larger theme in Sauce Boy is that no matter how hard you try to change, you can’t. ![]() The various Bedtime Stories are all so different in terms of subject matter – what holds them all together?Įric Wareheim: I think it’s just a universal tone of “life is a real nightmare”. That informed so much about how it’s going to look, and once we got there, we thought: “Let’s go full-bore into this world that we actually love.” We’re fans of that stuff. ![]() We just never got near it and it was kind of obvious to us that it’s a really fun world to play in when you can introduce absurdities like diaper-eating. The longer we keep doing this, the smaller that question becomes, but we thought, hey, we’ve never done that sort of Mafia-world sort of pastiche – the Goodfellas/Sopranos world. We start a project or an idea just having a conversation about what, really, haven’t we done yet. That scene’s in The Sopranos, it’s in a million movies. Like, one of those moments where Bubbles is doing the AA thing. Tim Heidecker: I think that particular scene is straight out of The Wire. The Guardian: You guys start off with a really well-observed parody of an AA meeting.
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