Tim Heidecker Has No Time for Dave Chappelle, a ‘Leader in the Anti-Trans Movement’

If you only know Tim Heidecker as one half of “Tim and Eric” with his longtime comedy partner Eric Wareheim, you are missing a lot. The comedian, musician and Office Hours host just set out on a big summer tour in which his meta “no more bullshit” stand-up character shares the bill with the “real” Tim playing music from his new album High School.

In this episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Heidecker holds nothing back going after Joe Rogan (“so boring”), Dave Chappelle (“a leader in the anti-trans movement”) and Jim Breuer (“a tremendous inspiration”). We also look back at the early days of “Tim and Eric,” from Bob Odenkirk’s role in bringing the duo’s comedy to Adult Swim to that time Gary Busey almost assaulted them during a taping. And Heidecker explains why having the freedom to explore his own solo projects has been the “key to not having a bad break-up” with Wareheim.

Heidecker started performing deliberately terrible stand-up comedy about 15 years ago at a weekly open mic night hosted by a friend. “I had dabbled in stand-up comedy earlier in my life and it was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman,” he recalls, describing the tape of those early performances he has buried away somewhere as “the Rosetta Stone of embarrassment.”

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