An Evening with Tim Heidecker

The one review aside from mine written on here by Mr. scott-spinner proclaims "just not funny....I wouldn't call him a comedian," while assigning the special one star.

And therein lies the brilliance of Tim and this entire special.

Without a nod or wink to the audience, Tim delivers an hour of perfectly crafted anti-humor in the persona of a bombing stand-up comic. It is so flawlessly executed that those not familiar with Tim, like the aforementioned reviewer, will fully believe he is an awful comedian. Tim and Eric has been pushing the boundaries of comedy in a Kaufman-esque way for a long time, and it is amazing and refreshing to see a comedian with the skill and the balls to intentionally suck for an hour, and that is the joke.

From the beginning, Tim tries to inject awkwardness into the show and over does it to the extreme point of me toiling around with whether this is funny or not. It just becomes ridiculously immature. And finally when he does seem to gather his faculties about himself he just bombs and then played some mental masturbation mind game garbage that's just absolutely NOT funny in any way, shape or form. I lost an immense amount of respect for Tim Heidecker from this stand-up. I went more than halfway through just hoping, for his sake and mine, that he would do or say something or anything funny. But that did not happen. And to other fans of Tim's other stuff, go ahead, see for yourself! And yes I do get the paradoxical ant-comedy aspect and in some cases it works, but definitely not in this one. I have it 2 stars only because of the microphone fumbling introduction. Everything else sucked. Boooo!

Funniest thing I've seen in ages. Fans of Tim and Eric know what's going on and will appreciate the genius of this special. Tim takes his standard narcissistic bully character and makes him a hapless stand-up, full of self-loathing that manifests as anger towards those around him, including the audience, the stage crew and his ex-wife.

Anti-comedy can be some of the funniest stuff out there (a la Norm Macdonald), but it takes a special comedic voice, delivery and material to pull it off. Unfortunately, Tim fell very short of meeting the threshold to make the unfunny "funny". I got what he was going for in the first 5 minutes and adjusted my expectations accordingly. Even after doing so, I thought I was unironically watching a Brendan Schaub special.

There's a reason no one picked this up and he released it on his own YT channel. If you're already a fan, you'll get a few chuckles but I could never recommend this to anyone.

An hour you will never get back.can't believe this bloke got a special. I wouldn't call him a comedian