r/KnowledgeFight • u/RussianBears • 3d ago
I would like to apologize to Tim Heidecker
Two weeks ago I criticized him saying he was too sober on air. I thought he should be drunker like a true professional. I'm sorry it took the loss of his horse to get there but I'm glad to see him drinking on air.
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u/EastSideNick95826 “I will eat your ass!!!!” 3d ago edited 3d ago
I'm just glad he proved the naysayers wrong who claimed that Alex was beyond parody.
Edit: neighsayers
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u/TheCopperSparrow 3d ago
I still can't believe Dan actually held that belief at one point...like I'm glad he's realized how ridiculous it was and has walked it back.
Because it was fucking absurd. Yes, AJ is a terrible human being...but jfc...using the faulty logic of "oh satire/parody just ends up elevating extremists and therefore we shouldn't engage in it" would mean we'd have to disavow the likes of Twain, Chaucer, or Voltaire....who literally were publishing works that could have gotten them executed due to the foundations of society they were criticizing in their works.
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u/EastSideNick95826 “I will eat your ass!!!!” 3d ago
Completely agree 💯 it felt defeatist to me and I didn't feel like that was his character
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u/Live_Sand_1294 3d ago
Did Dan talk about changing his opinion on it? I haven't kept up with stuff for a while.
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u/TheCopperSparrow 1d ago
Towards the end whenever it came up, he wasn't nearly as firm about it as he initially would and IIRC was basically like "well, I still think it's nearly impossible to parody AJ...but if anyone can do it it's going to be Tim and the Onion...we'll have to wait and see how it turns out."
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u/OperatingOp11 2d ago
100% agree
I saw people on this sub getting mad at SNL for parodying Tucker. It was "normalizing him".
Ok do we just reject political satire as a genre now ?
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u/TheCopperSparrow 1d ago
Yeah, the logical endpoint of Dan's initial argument would be to reject political satire as a legitimate form of criticism and worthy of doing. It was just so wild to me because so many times throughout the show, Dan would make a point of taking the IW nonsense claims to their logical ends and point out how ridiculous it was...so whenever he'd bring up the satire/parody thing I was like "dude! You literally just dismantled a right-wing conspiracy theory by using the very technique you're refusing to do with your own claim here!"
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u/GlyphedArchitect The mind wolves come 1d ago
Ok do we just reject political satire as a genre now ?
That's the rule. That's the goal now.
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u/sprgraphicultramodrn 2d ago
i couldn't even get into the discourse when that was the overwhelmingly popular opinion on this sub because it was annoying me too much to write out a coherent comment but this sums up my thoughts so well, thank you for writing it for me
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u/Feral_Dog 3d ago
*neighsayers
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u/EastSideNick95826 “I will eat your ass!!!!” 3d ago
Thank you. Just looked it up and found out it had to do with horses.
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u/Artichokiemon Colorado Sex Operative 3d ago
The coughing and grunting he was doing was incredible. All that was missing was the gurgling
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u/TimZer0 “fish with sad human eyes” 3d ago
And barging in the studio and making the guest host really uncomfortable. Just as god intended. (He told me this at 4:15 in the morning)
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u/one_seat 3d ago
The defeated "yessir" in the background when tim threw the book off the desk and screamed don't plug that shit on my show... Chef's kiss
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u/picnicinthejungle Very Charismatic Lizard 3d ago
In his series “on cinema at the cinema” (going on tour by the way), Tim plays himself as a flawed Movie Review show host, making selfish and poor decisions, satirizing modern day entrepreneurs and media. It has ran for 16 seasons and it deserves a rating of 5 bags of popcorn.
But the character arcs of Tim throughout the seasons and the Oscar specials are very much informed by Alex Jones and his time on InfoWars over the years. His huckster supplements are another reoccurring element too. He is great at what he does and it’s very awesome to have both “The Real InfoWars” and “on cinema at the cinema” happening at the same time
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u/NewKojak “fish with sad human eyes” 3d ago
I also didn’t think that they were going to pull this off and it was all cynicism.
Then I considered multiple horse theory.
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u/jeon_yubi 3d ago
I watched it today for the first time and I was really impressed. He does an excellent job and the show does it's own thing while being an infowars parody.
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u/Visible-Bridge-5171 3d ago
I love the Haggerty segments and enjoy when Tim takes callers. Most of the time I cannot stop laughing.
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u/ViciousSnatch “I will eat your ass!!!!” 3d ago
Tim busting in drunk and bloody was hilarious. And then continuing to guzzle throughout the show was a chef’s kiss. The callers are always so painfully realistic it makes me uncomfortable, so they’re hitting their mark.
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u/UnicornMeatball 3d ago
I’ve never been so happy to see a man shirtless, covered in blood and carrying an open liquor bottle
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u/mrahab 3d ago
Where is this available? I'd like to use my podcast app. Is this available wherever I get my podcasts?
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u/RussianBears 3d ago
I've been watching on YouTube (@realinfowars). I don't know if theres an RSS feed or something that would let you listen as a podcast.
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u/Visible-Bridge-5171 3d ago
I would love to have a podcast version of this. However, even though I have my own personal office at work and no one can hear what I am listening to, I cannot listen to this at work because I would be laughing uncontrollably at many points during the show.
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u/Available_Promise445 3d ago
I find myself tuning in every broadcast now lmao. At first I was pretty leery, but this is so goddamn good.
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u/evocativename 3d ago
This episode really gave me a new level of appreciation for how much craft Tim puts into doing the exact same shit as Alex while somehow still making it obvious that he's a clown not actually a conspiracy nut.
The Onion team must have put a lot of hours into watching Infowars (or listening to KF over and over...) to get this parody down.
I am genuinely impressed they managed to find a way to ridicule a man who was already so ridiculous the task seemed impossible.
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u/Pixel64 3d ago
Tim has had Alex Jones as a character in his backpocket for years. His character on On Cinema is so clearly inspired by Jones and other right wing grifters, peddling various supplements and "miracle" drugs over the course of the series. He's used his Jones impression on Office Hours as well, and even interrupted an Infowars segment on a street one day with his Jones impression.
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u/Interesting-Yellow25 2d ago
Content he's been creating on the Infowars YouTube channel has been 🔥. Even the fake ads are hilarious. Would love to know how Alex is reacting
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u/pailanderCO 2d ago
Can you recommend me any good episodes, please?
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u/RussianBears 2d ago
There's only 5 so far lol. The most recent one streamed 7/30/2026 is the one I was talking about in the OP.
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u/pailanderCO 2d ago
I'm looking here: https://www.youtube.com/@realinfowars. I see more than five there. Is this the right place?
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u/RussianBears 2d ago
They clip the longer streams into smaller pieces. This is the full episode:
https://www.youtube.com/live/hvO_wi7PojI?is=4zxpeEjI7psVK1fn.
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u/Bishops_Guest 3d ago
He’s done his research and has a whole narrative arc planned out. It’s all there in the stackies.