Anything could happen once you were on set. Would you need to play a pitchman for rentable juvenile clowns on the brink of an emotional meltdown? Or were you simply asked to hold your arms up in a weird way as you made the case for artificial bones? For 50 episodes and five seasons, there was no more fertile and fucked-up terrain in comedy. You can still hear the echoes, more than a decade later. After all, the duo had a precise grip on the exact sort of limbic, haunted, late-night public-access show they wanted to make.
They also found a surprising number of A-listers willing to play along with the mayhem. Everyone from John Mayer to Will Ferrell has gone down the rabbit hole with them. But the pair were also more than happy to pan through the benthic underside of Hollywood, trolling Craigslist for walk-ons who could provide the unsteady, amateurish tone the show relied on in a truly fluent way.
Some of the cult favorites Tim and Eric produced, like Richard Dunn, were pulled off the street. This is our list of the 30 best characters in Awesome Show history, played by stand-up royalty and anonymous weirdos alike. In the world of Wareheim and Heidecker, everyone can be a star.
Everything in the Tim and Eric tradition — from The Eric Andre Show down to Tom Goes to the Mayor — relies on a certain indelible unscrupulousness in whoever is guesting on the show. Yes, it is funny when Patton Oswalt shows up and seamlessly plays along , but this kind of comedy is at its best when someone completely outside the ecosystem appears onscreen. Both groups gave their productions an indie-music-kid ethos inspired by Neil Hamburger, and Heidecker and Wareheim welcomed all of the above onto their show to play some wacky characters.
Bamford, already a wacky character in and of herself, appeared in seasons one and three as Maria Bamford. By season three, it appears that Channel 5 has let her have a show about cleaning cat hair, which of course devolves into an on-air breakdown and screaming fit.
This is what all gamers look like, especially if you meet them on a VHS dating service. In , there is nothing more unsettling than low fidelity.
Occasionally, Tim and Eric would ditch the central conceit of their show and put together a half hour imported directly from inter-dimensional cable. Jim and Derrick represent the prime example of that genius. Nothing but gratuitous product placement, energy-drink chugging contests, and two hosts destined for a troubled tabloid future.
A little goblin with cloven feet and a full body of blonde fur, he is a repulsive little Ewok who nonetheless inspires some excellent Chrimbus music. Dee Vee gets a full arc when he is revealed to be the younger version of Awesome Show regular player Tennessee. Even on his deathbed , he shares a heartwarming Chrimbus message: that the meaning of the holiday is to buy the Chrimbus Special on DVD.
Adult Swim started with their animated sketch comedy show "Robot Chicken", and now they have the far superior sketch comedy show Tim and Eric.
Running at only 11 and a half minutes per episode, they have to jam a lot into those minutes, and they do. They have manic dance sketches, random flashing lights and everything to make sure the audience is on their toes. Tim and Eric participate in many sketches, including an opening sketch in every episode as themselves. The opening sketches with them usually are very purposefully boring and awkward. After that it's hard to tell what random sketches will occur.
Some of the recurring one's including a married news team played by Tim and Eric , and the other newscaster who seems to know all, Dr. Steve Brule John C. Reilly , a game where the audience tries to spot an ugly deformed baby, called "Where's My Chippy", and dance numbers with Uncle Muscle Weird Al Yankovich. There's many other random sketches too. Really, this show is very similar to the Mr.
Show with Bob and David, and even features Bob Oedenkirk in most of the episodes. It's random, and funny in how random it is, and often times it's actually clever.
It's a show that when not being manic and strange, it shows how dumb television actually is with product spoofs from Cinco toys , and fake television programming.
If you like other Adult Swim shows, you'll probably like this. If you don't you can still like this. It's incoherent and stupid, but in that incoherent stupidity is pure hilarity.
Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Although this comic gem may just seem like random trash to some people, others, like me, find all sorts of pleasure and entertainment out of this show's absurd style of comedy. It manages to make some nearly die laughing, and others just question the appeal of it all, and I cannot blame people who simply do not get it. Tim and Eric's style isn't for everybody, but I'm glad to see that there's plenty of people who are really into this surrealistic and hilarious show!
While every episode has a basic theme throughout, and a lot of the time even some sort of basic plot structure, it's normally all over the place.
It'll mix celebrity cameos with fake commercials with some skits that come across as just plain uncomfortable and unsettling. If you're a newcomer to the show, you must be warned that at times there will be a sketch that will make you CRINGE, whether it's the over exaggerated gross out sound effects or bizarre dialogue, there's definitely plenty here to make anybody feel just plain odd. There's plenty of sketches that are clearly mocking something, whether it be 90's television or even nature shows, they are absolute satirical masters!
With all it's intentionally bad green screens, sharp satire, and just flat out uncomfortable scenes, "Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job" is truly something to behold! I really don't know what to say about this.
I was mildly entertained by Tom Goes to the Mayor. It had its funny moments, but it was no great show. This one is just bad. There's really no intended purpose to any of this. It's simply a mashing of incoherent and obscurely done live-action sketches without any jokes, and with attempts at humor which fail miserably. It just seems to be Tim and Eric's attempts to broadcast their obsession with weird noises and things to other people, like the way they like to make noises with their mouths, and dress up and talk like other people it would be called acting if they were any good at it.
I just can't believe how awful it is No substance. I couldn't even smile watching the last episode involving David Cross without genitalia and a fat woman in fake porn. I was laughing out loud, which is a good thing. Seeing John Reilly definitely kept me watching for all of this laugh filled 11 minutes, he is great as some TV Doctor.
He is told his friend is dead in a skydiving accident on the air, losses it, than is told he's not dead and REALLY looses it, like a bad trip experience, and he's spot on like he's been there, anyway it was really funny if you can relate to any of that stuff I can.
An Asian midget punching the star in the groin is another reason why I laughed out loud alone, watching it by myself , yes I did do that to an adult as a kid, so I'm like having flashbacks watching this stuff, something I guess a baby boomer like me will find a lot funnier than a teen looking for cartoon humor might, than again maybe they will who knows.
What I also liked is, at least in this episode it basically just made fun of geeky white people, religion ie Christianity was left alone.
I'm not a bible thumper but I really resent that show Moral Oral, its just too low class for my tastes and lazy liberal writing, bash Christians. This one is not high brow humor but in this one episode I watched, it didn't offend me in any way, just made me laugh. I will admit that I do enjoy stupid humor, but this is as stupid as they come. The sketches are just out to randomly disgust people and not make them laugh.
I understand that they have a strong backing from Bob Odenkirk and have had Odenkirk's buddy David Cross on the show, but these guys just aren't funny. The show is more out to impress themselves instead of entertain the audience. John C. Reilly is the only comedic relief of the show. He appears every now and then as Dr. Steve Brule, which will at least give you a cheap laugh from this otherwise dull program. Anyway I wouldn't waste my time with this. Adult Swim has gone way down hill.
These pointless shows are killing the Adult Swim programming. Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are geniuses, they know how to get a laugh out of someone, yes their humor is a little eccentric, but it is hilarious. I understand a lot of people do not understand or really particularly care for their blend of humor but I feel that this show is a silly satirization of how kooky our real world culture is like in America.
Upon watching the DVD of season one a few times you as the viewer can start to piece the puzzle of Tim and Eric's inner circle together, I find it really interesting to see all the new 'character's' they bring on the program. Casey and his brother are insanely funny as the Uncle Muscles hour participants, Jan and Wayne Skylar as the 'Only married news team' are some of the funniest skits featuring one of my favorite characters Dr. Steve Brule, who throws out random 'Brule's Rules' throughout random shows, Weird Al Yankovic makes numerous appearances on the show, plus many other funny individuals that make great contributions to the show's excessive surrealism and when I type 'excessive' I mean that in an awesome way!
I wish I could give this season one DVD a million stars out of ten stars because that's what this work deserves. This show is completely hilarious. A totally absurd, insane, bizarre style of humor that is sadly missing from most of TV. There hasn't been anything as gleefully wacked out as this since "Stella", which, in my opinion was the funniest thing on TV when it was on.
Luckily, this show is garnering a huge cult following and not tanking in the ratings department. This show is alternately disorienting, disturbing, brilliant, hilarious to the point of near pants peeing and sometimes its all these things at once.
There humor is polarizing, but I'd say most of the people I've introduced it to love it, with a small minority being not into it. I can't praise it enough. In this age of lame, extremely predictable comedy, Tim And Eric are twin harbingers of fresh air. Am I at 10 lines yet? Anyway, best comedy on TV and please keep it up!
GrigoryGirl 7 June What can one say about a TV show whose main objective is to be as deliberately awful as possible, and that somehow is supposed to be brilliant comedy? I barely made it through this disc, and I was astonished at how truly awful this stuff is. The only time I laughed out loud was when John C. Reilly showed up as Dr. Reilly is a very good actor, and it was the only time during the show that I actually laughed heartily.
If I was John's agent, I would recommend to him not to do this show anymore, as it belittles him as an actor and artist. Fred Willard also shows up, and while I love Mr. Willard's work, he can't rescue the scene he's in, which is pretty lame.
The series isn't completely devoid of laughs, but aside from John Reilly's work, I laughed maybe 3 times during the whole season.
The series is more creepy than funny. It's a pretty poor indication of a show's quality when the episodes are a mere 11 minutes long, and I kept checking the DVD to see when it was going to be over.
Are these women being held under duress? For that matter, is this actually an accepted thing within the world of the show? This is supposed to be a commercial, something that will encourage you to buy this for your children. The way things escalate, and the way no one in this world reacts the way they should to the insanity, is part of the magic.
Trying to make sense of the madness and put it all in context is part of what makes Tim and Eric skits so much fun to watch. Are Tim and Eric just giving them bad direction? Or are these people genuinely crazy? Well so are we. The celebrities who appear on the show are often even more disturbing than the amateur actors. Being on Tim and Eric has become almost a rite of passage for comedians and actors who you would never expect to see on a show this campy and low-budget.
Will Farrel, Zack Galifanakas, Michael Cera, Paul Rudd, and others have all made guest appearances on the show, often in leading roles. Have fun sleeping tonight, kids! I enjoy it for the surreal cognitive dissonance… it rests in an uneasy grey area between reality, humor, and horror, a region where a lot of humor and horror and reality operates.
The sources of humor and horror are rather similar, sometimes the only difference between a movie scene that is funny and one that is terrifying is just a matter of music, sometimes even then it depends heavily on context. And, for a lot of people who may or may not enjoy the Stooges and horror movies in their respective contexts, a bunch of guys hitting each other is still entertainment in the form of boxing and other sports, which is equally surreal and horrifying and blackly funny in its own way: perfectly ordinary people lining up to buy tickets to see two men beat each other into unconsciousness, and finding it neither horrific, nor comedic….
If your a super serious person who has never smoked weed your probably going to hate this show. All of their shows are just complete shite. Yup and your one of the people who make us laugh just a little bit harder when we watch. Your obviously a close minded piece of horse meat that my grandmother put in a blender and forced the result of the blending into my eyeballs and told me I was a bad boy and going to hell after allowing her to do that, followed by the amazing game of twister while I vomited the blending results back out through my eyeballs.
Is that a fact? The part of your dissertation involving mental illness was especially gripping, very well thought out and executed. July 11, June 11,
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