Tim Heidecker

Timothy Richard Heidecker (born February 3, 1976) is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician.

Along with Eric Wareheim, he is a member of the comedy duo Tim & Eric.

Timothy Richard Heidecker was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1976.

He attended and graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, and then attended Temple University in Philadelphia, where he met his comedy partner Eric Wareheim.

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.

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.

He made an appearance in the 2008 Ben Folds and Regina Spektor music video titled "You Don't Know Me".

Although Davin Wood composed the music for Awesome Show, 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.

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.

He has also appeared in films, including Bridesmaids (2011), Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012), The Comedy (2012), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Us (2019).

He currently co-hosts the parodic film review web series On Cinema and stars in the comedy series Decker alongside Gregg Turkington and hosts a weekly call-in show, Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker, with DJ Douggpound and Vic Berger.

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.

Inspired by 1970s soft rock, they released their first album, Starting from Nowhere, on March 15, 2011.

In July 2012, Heidecker starred in an episode of Workaholics.

In 2012, he guest starred in Dinosaur Jr.'s music video "Watch the Corners."

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.

Heidecker starred in a series of films for Absolut Vodka's website with Wareheim and Zach Galifianakis.

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 2012, Heidecker contributed a parody campaign jingle for Herman Cain's presidential bid titled "Cain Train".

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.

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.

The duo's anthology horror series, Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories, aired on Adult Swim from 2014 to 2017.

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.

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.

Heidecker played in various indie rock bands while in Philadelphia.