Tim Heidecker

Heidecker was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1976.^[4] He attended and graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, then attended Temple University in Philadelphia, where he met his comedy partner Eric Wareheim.^[5]

Television#edit

Heidecker and Wareheim created, wrote, and starred in Tom Goes to the Mayor, a limited animation series that aired from November 2004 to September 2006 on Adult Swim. Heidecker plays Tom, the protagonist of the show who continually brings his ideas to the Mayor (played by Wareheim) only to have them thwarted in most cases, leaving Tom worse off than when he started. According to their website, Wareheim and Heidecker had mailed copies of an early version of the show to comedian Bob Odenkirk, who agreed to take on the project as the executive producer of the series and sold it to Adult Swim.^[6]

The duo's second show, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, premiered in 2007, on Adult Swim. They also created and starred in Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, and appeared together as debt collectors on the Adult Swim special Young Person's Guide to History and have made guest appearances in the movie Let's Go to Prison, as well as the Scottish video game series VideoGaiden and a Version 2 episode of Mega64.^[7] Heidecker also had a small role in the 2011 film Bridesmaids, and a leading role in the 2012 independent drama The Comedy, directed by Rick Alverson and also starring Wareheim. In July 2012, Heidecker starred in an episode of Workaholics. In 2012, he guest starred in Dinosaur Jr.'s music video "Watch the Corners".^[8] In the same year, Heidecker made a cameo appearance on the independent movie reviewing site, Red Letter Media. Heidecker appeared in an episode of the RedLetterMedia series, "Half in the Bag." The episode is titled "Season Finale: Step Up Revolution." Within the short sketch comedy, Heidecker plays a VCR repairman named "Tim". Shortly after his introduction into the scene, he flies through the ceiling and makes his exit from the skit.^[9]

Heidecker starred in a series of films for Absolut Vodka's website with Wareheim and Zach Galifianakis. In 2010, Heidecker and Wareheim directed a series of Old Spice commercials starring actor Terry Crews. Using characters and skits from Awesome Show, Heidecker and Wareheim (via their Abso Lutely Productions company) created an online-only show called "Tim and Eric Nite Live!," originally broadcast on the website SuperDeluxe.

Since 2012, Heidecker has hosted a parodic web series and podcast called On Cinema, where he and special guest (Gregg Turkington) discuss films from past and present. In 2013, an On Cinema Film Guide app was released, featuring the voices of Heidecker and Turkington reviewing over 17,000 films. Heidecker, Wareheim, Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, and Reggie Watts announced on the podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! that they were starting a comedy YouTube channel called Jash.

Since 2016, Heidecker has hosted the podcast and web series Office Hours Live along with Vic Berger and Doug Lussenhop. It features phone and video calls with fans, comedians, musicians, and political commentators.^[10]

The duo's anthology horror series, Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories, aired on Adult Swim from 2014 to 2017. A sitcom starring the duo, Beef House, premiered in March 2020.

On October 23, 2020, Heidecker released his first stand-up comedy special, An Evening with Tim Heidecker, on YouTube. Filmed in the style of a typical standup special, Heidecker's special is a parody of the format in which he deliberately plays a hack stand-up comic.^[11]

In December 2020, Heidecker and Turkington launched the HEI Network internet platform, independently run, with subscriptions to finance and distribute On Cinema, after all of Adult Swim livestream programs were cancelled.^[12][13]

On April 20, 2026, satirical publication The Onion announced that it would be taking control of the far-right conspiracy outlet Infowars, with Heidecker announced as the new "creative director" of the site, planning to create satirical content under the moniker. Heidecker stated in an interview, "I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity." The Onion announced that a share of merchandise proceeds would be sent to Sandy Hook families. Tim had initially contacted The Onion about collaborating when they previously attempted to acquire Infowars in 2024.^[14] The show later featured Heidecker dying, which The Onion presented as fact with memorials and merch, but the death itself was a satirical fabrication.^[15]

Music#edit

Heidecker played in various indie rock bands in Philadelphia. In 2008, he made an appearance in the Ben Folds and Regina Spektor music video, "You Don't Know Me".

Davin Wood composed the music for Awesome Show, but Heidecker would sometimes sing and write lyrics. Williams Street Records released both Awesome Record, Great Songs! and Uncle Muscles Presents Casey and His Brother in 2008, featuring music from the first two seasons. Wood previously composed the music for Tom Goes to the Mayor, and he and Heidecker form the duo Heidecker & Wood. Inspired by 1970s soft rock, they released their first album, Starting from Nowhere, on March 15, 2011.^[16] The duo released a second album in the same style on November 12, 2013, Some Things Never Stay the Same. They cite the influence of Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, and Boz Scaggs.^[17]

In 2012, Heidecker contributed a parody campaign jingle for Herman Cain's presidential bid titled "Cain Train".^[18] This was the first of nine songs which would eventually become a full album, titled Cainthology: Songs in the Key of Cain. Proceeds from the album's benefited the Violence Intervention Program.^[19] The number nine was chosen as the number of songs, and $9.99 the original price, in reference to Herman Cain's 9–9–9 financial plan.

Before the release of Bob Dylan's album Tempest in September 2012, Heidecker released a Dylan pastiche called "Titanic", spoofing the news that the album would feature a 14-minute track about the RMS Titanic.^[20] In 2013, he released two more Dylan parodies, "Running Out the Clock", inspired by Dylan's 1983 album Infidels, and "Long Black Dress", a song in the actual style of Dylan's album Tempest. He also collaborated with the indie band The Earth is a Man on a cover of Dylan's "All the Tired Horses."

In 2013, Heidecker released the album Urinal St. Station under the Drag City label with his band, The Yellow River Boys.^[21] The lead single, "Hot Piss", was released in June 2013.^[22] Vice Magazine named Urinal St. Station as the best album of 2013.^[23]

Heidecker and Davin Wood composed and performed the song "Weatherman" which was used in the 2014 film The Age of Reason.

In June 2014, Heidecker and Wareheim released a 12" single, "Jambalaya", as Pusswhip Banggang.^[24]

Heidecker's solo album In Glendale was released on May 20, 2016, on Rado Records.

Heidecker released "I Am a Cuck", a parody of Paul Simon's song "I Am a Rock", on August 26, 2016.^[25]

He released Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker's Trump Songs via Jagjaguwar on November 8, 2017, a year to the date after Trump's presidential victory.^[26]

In August 2020, Heidecker announced Fear of Death, a concept album featuring members of Foxygen, the Lemon Twigs, and Weyes Blood, slated for release on September 25 from Spacebomb Records.^[27]

Heidecker's sixth album, High School, was released June 24, 2022, on Spacebomb Records^[28] followed by a supporting North American tour.^[29]

Heidecker appeared on the 2026 "Super Deluxe" version of Box for Buddy, Box for Star by This Is Lorelei, providing a cover of "An Extra Beat for You and Me".^[30]

In 2006, Heidecker was stabbed twice in the back while defending his neighbor, an elderly woman, from an attack by her son (the stabber) who was high on PCP. Heidecker later said that he was not aware of the stabbings during the confrontation, only noticing the wounds after the attacker was subdued.^[31]

Heidecker is married to actress Marilyn Porayko.^{[32][33][34][35]} They live in Glendale, California and have two children: a daughter born in 2013^[36] and a son born in 2016.^[37]

Heidecker joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June 2018.^[38] He has described himself as both an atheist and an agnostic.^[39]

Film#edit

Television#edit

Web media#edit

Podcasts#edit

Applications#edit

Solo#edit

Studio albums

• 2011: Cainthology: Songs in the Key of Cain
• 2012: Titanic and Other Songs
• 2016: In Glendale
• 2017: Too Dumb for Suicide
• 2019: What the Brokenhearted Do...
• 2020: Fear of Death
• 2022: High School
• 2024: Slipping Away

Compilation albums

• 2018: Another Year in Hell: Collected Songs from 2018

Live albums

• 2023: Live in Boulder

The Tim Heidecker Masterpiece#edit

• 2000: Working Vacation (EP)
• 2002: Theatre of Magic (rock opera)

Tim & Eric#edit

• 2008: Awesome Record, Great Songs! Volume One
• 2008: Uncle Muscles Presents Casey and His Brother (as Casey and His Brother)
• 2014: Jambalaya (12" single, as Pusswhip Banggang)

Heidecker & Wood#edit

• 2011: Starting from Nowhere
• 2013: Some Things Never Stay the Same

The Yellow River Boys#edit

• 2013: Urinal St. Station
• 2021: Greatest Hits

• (2010) Bicycle Built for Two (with Gregg Turkington)
• (2015) Tim and Eric's Zone Theory (with Eric Wareheim)
• (2019) Brendan Kearney's Official On Cinema at the Cinema Reader Volume 1 : 2010–2018 (with Gregg Turkington and Brendan Kearney)

• 2020: An Evening with Tim Heidecker

• Webby Award for best actor as part of the comedy team of Tim and Eric^[55]
• Directors Guild of America Awards nomination for "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials" for CeraVe's "Michael CeraVe" (shared with Eric Wareheim)^[56]

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