That is, he was bumping up against a brewing energy in Heidecker. It’s not a perfect movie, but with what we had, what we were trying to do, you know.” Clearly Maron hits a fresh nerve with this line of questioning, and with hindsight I give him a few points for prescience. “I’m happy with it,” Heidecker says of Billion Dollar Movie. When Maron frankly asks Heidecker about this barrage of critical flak, Heidecker responds raw and a little defensively, not least of all because Maron thinly veils his own distaste for the film. In the film’s wake, Tim and Eric turned their focus back to short-form work, and even this more sporadically than before. Released in early 2012, Billion Dollar Movie was widely critically panned, its humor proving to be very much not for everyone. Tim and Eric’s star had been steadily on the rise an in-the-works Will Ferrell–produced feature film, Billion Dollar Movie, had teased the prospect of a greater popular appeal and, perhaps, further cinematic endeavors. An exciting buzz of activity, but it’s not quite what any rabid fan of Heidecker’s underground television programs would have predicted even a year prior. As he tells Maron, he’s brimming with projects: writing half-silly rock music, touring his faux-amateur stand-up set, branching into serious acting with The Comedy, and overseeing, with his longtime creative partner Eric Wareheim, a flourishing comedy production company. Maron groks generally what Heidecker’s comedic ethos is all about-a punkish, ironic, class-clown sendup of everything in sight, whether good or bad-but at the same time seems naturally wary of the intent of someone whose whole deal is, essentially, acting weird and above it all. As Maron begins to describe his own journey as a puzzled but awestruck viewer of Heidecker’s madcap Awesome Show, a different, subtler awkwardness fills the air: that of a generational impasse of worldviews. A history of a few years of interpersonal misunderstandings and indirect barbs is touched on, though overriding this is a mutual respect they clearly hold for one another as shepherds of the American alternative comedy scene. From the get-go both men candidly address a vague awkwardness between them. Marc Maron sits down with comedian Tim Heidecker to record one of his famous deep-dive podcasts. On Cinema at the Cinema at the Cinema, organized by Max Carpenter, will be shown at Museum of the Moving Image November 12–21.įall, 2012.
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