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• TIM HEICKER HAS NO TIME FOR DAVE CHAPPELLE, A ‘LEAR THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT’THE LAST LAUGHPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTY AS HE HEADS OUT ON HIS “NO MORE BULLSH” TOUR, TIM HEICKER JOS THE LAST LGH PODST TO LOOK BACK ON HIS REER AND SHARE UNFILTERED THOUGHTS ON THE STATE OF EDY.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED JUL. 12, 2022 11:35AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 12, 2022 4:43AM EDT IF YOU ONLY KNOW TIM HEICKER AS ONE HALF OF “TIM AND ERIC” WH HIS LONGTIME EDY PARTNER ERIC WAREHEIM, YOU ARE MISSG A LOT. THE EDIAN, MICIAN AND OFFICE HOURS HOST JT SET OUT ON A BIG SUMMER TOUR WHICH HIS META “NO MORE BULLSH” STAND-UP CHARACTER SHAR THE BILL WH THE “REAL” TIM PLAYG MIC OM HIS NEW ALBUM HIGH SCHOOL.IN THIS EPISO OF THE LAST LGH PODST, HEICKER HOLDS NOTHG BACK GOG AFTER JOE ROGAN (“SO BORG”), DAVE CHAPPELLE (“A LEAR THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT”) AND JIM BRER (“A TREMENDO SPIRATN”). WE ALSO LOOK BACK AT THE EARLY DAYS OF “TIM AND ERIC,” OM BOB ONKIRK’S ROLE BRGG THE DUO’S EDY TO ADULT SWIM TO THAT TIME GARY BEY ALMOST ASSLTED THEM DURG A TAPG. AND HEICKER EXPLAS WHY HAVG THE EEDOM TO EXPLORE HIS OWN SOLO PROJECTS HAS BEEN THE “KEY TO NOT HAVG A BAD BREAK-UP” WH WAREHEIM. HEICKER STARTED PERFORMG LIBERATELY TERRIBLE STAND-UP EDY ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO AT A WEEKLY OPEN MIC NIGHT HOSTED BY A IEND. “I HAD DABBLED STAND-UP EDY EARLIER MY LIFE AND WAS HEAVILY FLUENCED BY ANDY KFMAN,” HE RELLS, SCRIBG THE TAPE OF THOSE EARLY PERFORMANC HE HAS BURIED AWAY SOMEWHERE AS “THE ROSETTA STONE OF EMBARRASSMENT.”AFTER WATCHG EDIANS GET UP AND “BOMB SO BADLY” WEEK AFTER WEEK, HE CID TO TRY BOMBG ON PURPOSE AS A SORT OF “PRANK.” BUT WASN’T UNTIL HE STARTED WATCHG DONALD TMP’S MPAIGN RALLI 2015 AND 2016 THAT HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO TURN THE MATERIAL TO AN HOUR-LONG SPECIAL, WHICH HE ULTIMATELY RELEASED FOR EE ON YOUTUBE JT BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTN. “WATCHG TMP, I STARTED BEG FLUENCED BY THAT KD OF BRAGGADOC, THAT KD OF SWAGGER THAT’S TOTALLY UNSERVED,” HE EXPLAS. “THERE’S NOTHG BEHD . IT’S JT ATTU.” BEFORE THIS SUMMER, HEICKER HAD NEVER DONE A PROPER TOUR OF EHER HIS TENTNALLY BAD STAND-UP MATERIAL OR HIS SURPRISGLY SCERE MIC. “I DON’T KNOW HOW ANYTHG WORKS FOR GENERAL DIENC BUT MY CROWD SHOWS UP AND THEY’RE UP FOR ALL,” HE SAYS, ENTHIASTILLY, AHEAD OF HIS FIRST N OF SHOWS THIS PAST WEEKEND AT THE ELYSIAN THEATER LOS ANGEL. “ANECDOTALLY THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT WERE LIKE, ‘YEAH, I WASN’T REALLY TOO FAIAR WH YOUR MIC, BUT WAS SURPRISGLY GOOD!’ SO THAT’S ALWAYS A NICE THG TO HEAR.” ALONG WH OFFICE HOURS, HIS ADULT SWIM SHOW ON CEMA, AND THE SHOWTIME SERI MOONBASE 8, HEICKER’S LATT PROJECT IS ONE OF MANY RECENT YEARS WHOUT HIS LONGTIME EDY PARTNER ERIC WAREHEIM, WHO HAS BEEN FOCG ON MAKG WE AND WRG OKBOOKS. DCRIBG THE “TIM AND ERIC” PARADIGM AS “SORT OF LIMED,” HEICKER SAYS, “THERE ARE IAS I WOULD HAVE THAT DON’T REALLY WORK THE ‘TIM AND ERIC’ WORLD AND THEY STARTED FDG OTHER ROUT OUTSI OF ‘TIM AND ERIC.’ SO JT KD OF HAPPENED NATURALLY.”RIGHT BEFORE THE PANMIC, THEY PUT OUT A S PARODY AND TOURED TOGETHER, BUT HAVE SCE DRIFTED APART CREATIVELY. “FOR THE FIRST SEVERAL YEARS, ERIC AND ME, ALL OUR CREATIVE ENERGY WAS GOG TO OUR WORK TOGETHER,” HEICKER SAYS. “AND MA PRODUCE A LOT OF STUFF, BUT WE BOTH KD OF GOT LOST THE PERSONAS OF ‘TIM AND ERIC’ AND I FELT A LTLE LIKE, ‘WHO AM I AND WHAT DO I WANT TO DO?’” THEY FIGURED OUT “PRETTY QUICKLY,” HE ADDS, THAT FDG THEIR OWN SEPARATE PROJECTS “WAS THE KEY TO NOT HAVG A BAD BREAK-UP.” “RIGHT NOW I THK WE’RE JT DOG WHAT WE BOTH WANT TO DO, BUT WH THE IA THAT WE’VE GOT TO DO SOMETHG ELSE TOGETHER,” HE ADDS. “WE LOVE MAKG STUFF TOGETHER AND WHEN WE DO MAKE STUFF TOGETHER UALLY OUT PRETTY GOOD.” ADVERTISEMENT BELOW IS AN EDED EXCERPT OM OUR NVERSATN. YOU N LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THG—CLUDG STORI ABOUT THE EARLY DAYS OF TIM AND ERIC, GETTG MOSTLY CUT OUT OF ‘BRISMAIDS’ AND A LOT MORE—BY SUBSCRIBG TO THE LAST LGH ON APPLE PODSTS, SPOTIFY, GOOGLE, STCHER, AMAZON MIC, OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODSTS, AND BE THE FIRST TO HEAR NEW EPISOS WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED EVERY TUDAY.IT SEEMS LIKE THE [“NO MORE BULLSH”] B HAS EVOLVED TO YOU SORT OF REPRENTG EVERYTHG THAT YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT EDY OR THAT YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT CERTA EDIANS. ARE THERE PEOPLE THAT YOU TAKE SPIRATN OM THAT WAY?I MEAN, I DON’T WANT TO NAME NAM, THAT’S KD OF MEAN. BUT I GREW UP THE ’80S AND ’90S AND THAT WAS SORT OF THE FIRST BIG EXPLOSN OF THE BRICK WALL ICS AND THERE WAS A CERTA RNS TO . AND AS SOON AS YOU DISVERED ANYTHG THAT WAS A LTLE LEFT OF THAT OR A LTLE WEIRR THAN THAT, MA THAT FEEL VERY LAME. I WILL NAME A FEW NAM. I MEAN, JIM BRER HAS BEEN A TREMENDO SPIRATN. JT A FEW MONTHS AGO, I DID A SHOW AT LARGO HERE L.A. AND I WAS TTG OUT SOME NEW STUFF BUT THEN I SAW THAT JIM BRER HAD POSTED HIS SETLIST FOR THAT NIGHT, AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, I’M JT GOG TO TRY TO DO HIS SETLIST.I SAW YOU SHARED HIS ANTI-VACCE B THAT JT WENT VIRAL ON TWTER. AND I WAS WATCHG THAT THKG, ’S HARD TO TOP THAT TERMS OF BAD EDY, RIGHT?YEAH, I MEAN, ’LL FLUENCE ME WAYS THAT I N’T PREDICT. IT’LL JT START SHOWG UP CERTA SOUND EFFECTS I’M DOG. BUT I’VE NOTICED SO MANY OF THE EDIANS E INSTAGRAM NOW, THE VERY HEAVILY EDED CLIPS WH PTNS BIG LETTERS. IT REALLY LOOKS PROFSNAL AND LOOKS LIKE SHOULD BE GOOD NTENT AND THEN VERY RARELY IS. IT’S ALWAYS A LTLE DISAPPOTG. SO YEAH, THERE’S JT OBVLY A SURGE OF RIGHT NOW AND I DON’T REALLY UNRSTAND THE APPEAL OF . I MEAN, A LOT OF IS NFIRMATN BIAS AND PEOPLE LIKE, “THAT’S HOW I FEEL, THAT’S HOW I THK!” AND, NOT TO SOUND LIKE TMP, BUT THAT’S ON BOTH SIS TOO. THERE’S A TON OF SPEECHY-STYLE EDY THAT’S NOT QUE MAKG ME LGH. ADVERTISEMENT IT DO SEEM LIKE YOU DO ENJOY OCSNALLY GOG AFTER PEOPLE THE DIENCE FOR NOT LGHG.THAT’S ALWAYS THE CLASSIC AMATR NIGHTCLUB MOVE IS TO BE LIKE, “OH, YOU DON’T THK I’M FUNNY? WELL, THEN YOU MT BE AN IDT.” THAT’S A CLEAR TELLTALE SIGN OF SOMEBODY THAT SHOULDN’T BE THIS BS.SO YOU PUT THE SPECIAL OUT 2020 ON YOUTUBE AND I KNOW YOU PCHED TO SOME PLAC THAT DIDN'T WANT , RIGHT? NETFLIX, COMEDY CENTRAL AND OTHER PLAC.YEAH, THE STORY OF MY LIFE.WHAT KD OF FEEDBACK DID YOU GET WHEN YOU WERE PUTTG OUT THERE AND HAVG REJECTED?WELL, YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET THE STRAIGHT SOP. BUT THE ONE MSAGE THAT WAS PASSED ALONG TO ME, I THK VIA COMEDY CENTRAL, WAS A CLASSIC. IT WAS, “HE JT SEEMS LIKE HE’S MAKG FUN OF EDY.” ADVERTISEMENT WHICH IS NOT OK?THAT JT BLEW MY MD, LIKE, WHY IS THAT OFF LIMS? WHO R?IN ADDN TO MAKG FUN OF EDY THERE IS FELY A STRA OF MAKG FUN OF THIS ANTI-WOKE EDY TREND THAT WE’RE SEEG A LOT OF PLAC, WHETHER ’S THE 12-HOUR JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE PARODY THAT YOU DID OR OTHER THGS. BUT THAT ONE PARTICULAR GOT A LOT OF ATTENTN FOR YOU. HOW DID YOU CI TO DO THAT?ON OFFICE HOURS, THE PODST I DO WH VIC BERGER AND DJ DOUGGPOUND, WE GET A LTLE OBSSED WH THE CHARACTERS, ROGAN AND JORDAN PETERSON AND TIM POOL AND ALL THE PEOPLE OUT THERE. THEY HAVE HUGE DIENC AND JT BLOWS OUR MDS THAT ANYONE GIV A SH WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY. IT’S AMAZG THAT THEY HAVE THIS DIENCE. AND THERE’S JT A LN THGS TO MAKE FUN OF ABOUT AND THE THG THAT ALWAYS STCK ME ABOUT ROGAN’S PODST, OF WHICH I’VE LISTENED TO SOME—ENOUGH TO GET , I THK, GET THE GENERAL POT OF VIEW AND EVERYTHG—IS JT HOW BORG IS. IT’S SO BORG AND DRY AND I DON’T E TO ANY REAL HIGHER UNRSTANDG OF ANYTHG. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY’RE TALKG ABOUT EDY AND HAVG OTHER EDIANS ON, I JT FD SUCH A DRAG. AND SO LAME THAT SO MANY MEN HAVE JT CID THIS IS THEIR OPRAH. OR THIS IS THEIR LETTERMAN. “OH YEAH, I LISTEN TO JOE ROGAN.” WHY? WHAT ARE YOU DOG WH YOUR HOURS? I ULD UNRSTAND IF YOU’RE FALLG ASLEEP TO , THAT ULD BE THE ONLY THG. SO I SAID, I THK I KNOW HOW TO DO THIS A WAY THAT’S NOT A STRAIGHT IMPRSN, BUT SHOULD GET MY CENTRAL THIS ACROSS THAT 'S BORG. AND I LOVE JEREMY [LEVICK] AND RAJAT [SURH]. I’VE BEEN ENJOYG THEIR WORK ON TWTER. THEY ARE LIKE UP-AND-G GENI. THOSE ARE THE TWO GUYS THAT DID AND THEY WERE GREAT AS WELL, PLAYG OFF OF WHAT YOU WERE DOG. ADVERTISEMENT IT WAS SENTIALLY IMPROVISED WH A LTLE SHEET OF PAPER THAT HAD KEYWORDS AND NAM AND STUFF THAT WE WANTED TO EVENTUALLY GET TO, BUT YEAH, WAS JT REALLY FUN. AND WE JT KD OF DROPPED AND MA A LOOP, SO FELT LIKE WAS 12 HOURS. BEE THAT WAS ALWAYS MY THG WH HIM WAS LIKE, YOU ULD DIP TO ROGAN AND NOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AND NOT KNOW IF THERE’S ANY BEGNG, MIDDLE OR END.DID YOU EVER HEAR OM HIM OR ANYONE CLOSE TO HIM AFTER YOU DID THAT?NO, I KNEW PEOPLE WHO ARE SORT OF REGULARS ON HIS SHOW WERE ENJOYG . LIKE BERT KREISCHER AND TOM SEGURA, WHO ARE IENDS WH HIM, THEY WERE LOVG . SO LISTEN, YOU KNOW, FOR YEARS AND YEARS, I’VE BEEN BATIVE OR ONLE SPATS WH CERTA PEOPLE THIS BS AND I WOULD PROBABLY HAVE A GOOD CHAT WH JOE ROGAN IF I ACTUALLY SAW HIM. I DON’T HATE ANYBODY AND I DON’T WISH ANYBODY ILL WILL OR ANYTHG. BUT I ENJOY POKG THE STICK AT CERTA THGS.YOU’RE KD OF UNIQUE THAT WAY. BEE THE EDY WORLD, EVERYONE’S SORT OF PROTECTIVE OF EACH OTHER. ANOTHER THG YOU TWEETED RECENTLY WAS A MENT REFERENCE TO JOHN MULANEY BRGG UP CHAPPELLE, HAVG HIM AS A SURPRISE GUT ON HIS TOUR WHERE HE TOLD A LOT OF HIS ANTI-TRANS JOK. AND YOU WERE BASILLY THE ONLY EDIAN THAT I SAW SPEAK OUT AGAST THAT.I MEAN, LISTEN, I HAVE IENDS WHO ARE TRANS—AND THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE WORST WAY TO START THAT NVERSATN, RIGHT? BUT I REALLY DO, AND I HAVE FANS WHO ARE TRANS AND I’VE SPOKEN TO THEM ABOUT THIS AND I’VE HEARD DIRECTLY OM THEM, AND THERE IS TREMENDO ANXIETY AND UNFORTABLENS AND SADNS AND HURT THAT ’S TREATED SO FLIPPANTLY AND OFTEN DANGEROLY BY THE PEOPLE WH GIANT DIENC. AND I DON’T BELIEVE THAT JOHN MULANEY HAS ANY KD OF ISSU WH THE TRANS MUNY PERSONALLY. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I DON’T UNRSTAND WHY YOU NEED CHAPPELLE TO E OUT ONTO THE STAGE WH AN DIENCE THAT HAVE ALREADY PAID TO SEE YOU. ADVERTISEMENT IT’S NOT WHAT THEY SIGNED UP FOR.YEAH, EXACTLY. SO I DID , OF URSE, AS AN HONT STATEMENT THAT YOU SHOULD FEEL SAFE G TO MY SHOWS, THAT I’M NOT GOG TO SPRG A LEAR THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT— SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE HE R EPLY ABOUT.HE N’T STOP TALKG ABOUT .YEAH, I DID OUT OF HONTY AND A LTLE B OF SNARKY, LIKE, “FUCK OFF.” AND ALSO AS A MSAGE TO OTHER ARTISTS AND EDIANS AND MICIANS TO BE LIKE, YOU KNOW, FEEL EE TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THIS. YOU WILL FD A LOT OF ENURAGEMENT AND GRATU OM A VERY OL DIENCE. I’M SPEAKG PLETELY SELF-SERVGLY HERE, BUT IF YOU WANT TO BUILD A OL, YOUNG, CREATIVE, SMART DIENCE, THE ARE NOT THE PEOPLE YOU SHOULD BE EXCLUDG OM YOUR DIENCE. AND THAT’S NOT WHY I’M DOG , BUT THE ARE POSIVE SI EFFECTS OF JT BEG CLIVE AND UNRSTANDG OF MARGALIZED MUNI THAT YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO HAVE FULL UNRSTANDG OF, YOU JT HAVE TO BE TOLERANT AND RPECTFUL OF. AND I’LL JT SAY ONE MORE THG. WHEN I HEAR THE ANTI-TRANS EDY, JT SOUNDS LIKE THAT CHEAP ‘80S GAY STUFF. LIKE ANDREW DICE CLAY, WHO I KNOW IS DOG A CHARACTER, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT ANDREW DICE CLAY WAS PROBABLY MAKG FUN OF BUT HE GOT KD OF SWEPT TO THE DARK SI OF. “SO I DID , OF URSE, AS AN HONT STATEMENT THAT YOU SHOULD FEEL SAFE G TO MY SHOWS, THAT I’M NOT GOG TO SPRG A LEAR THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT— SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE HE R EPLY ABOUT.” OR EDDIE MURPHY TOO. ADVERTISEMENT YEAH, I MEAN ’S EASY, CHEAP FODR THAT SHOULD BE BENEATH MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OPERATG AT THAT LEVEL. AND I’M NOT TELLG ANYBODY THEY N’T DO WHATEVER THEY WANT, BUT I’M JT SAYG WHAT'S GOG TO HAPPEN AT MY SHOWS.I DO WONR IF YOU FEEL SOME RPONSIBILY TO UNTER THAT STUFF FOR YOUR OWN YOUNGER MALE FANS WHO GREW UP WATCHG TIM AND ERIC AND ULD GO DOWN THAT ROAD THEMSELV.OH, ABSOLUTELY, 100 PERCENT. I’M SURE A LOT OF THEM HAVE. I KNOW THAT WHEN WE STARTED 10, 15 YEARS AGO, WE ATTRACTED A MOSTLY NON-NFORMIST, ANTI-TABLISHMENT, YOUNGER GROUP OF MEN. AND HAS SHIFTED A LOT AND THERE’S PLENTY OF WOMEN TOO, BUT I KNOW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHG APPEALG ABOUT THE NIHILISM OF OUR WORK THAT WAS FELY ANTI-THORARIAN OR ANTI-TABLISHMENT. AND YOU N TAKE THAT TO THE LEFT OR TO THE RIGHT AND I THK A LOT OF GUYS DID, THE TMP ERA, 2015, 2016 AND ONWARD, WENT THAT WAY. AND ULDN’T BELIEVE THAT I WOULD NOT BE TO THAT TOO. A LOT OF THEM WERE LIKE, “I THOUGHT YOU GET THAT NOTHG MATTERS AND THIS GUY IS A PLETE STROYER OF WORLDS AND HE’S GOG TO TEAR DOWN THE TABLISHMENT, WHY AREN’T YOU TO THAT TOO?” AND I’M LIKE, WELL, I GET THAT, BUT I’M ALSO A LIBERAL ARTIST THEATER DU WHO GREW UP BELIEVG CERTA AXMS THAT ARE STILL TE TO ME. AND I THK THIS IS A N JOB THAT THIS GUY IS PERFORMG AND YOU’RE GETTG SWEPT UP TO SOMETHG THAT YOU DON’T UNRSTAND. AND JT THE OTHER DAY WH THE SHOOTER ON THE ROOF, I SEE THE GUYS AND I’M JT LIKE THAT ULD EASILY BE A FAN, ULD EASILY BE A FORMER FAN OR THE SAME KIDS THAT ARE WRG THAT I’M A “CUCK.” I’VE RECEIVED PLENTY OF ATH THREATS AND PLENTY OF TERRIBLE TROLLG FOR BEG OUTSPOKEN ON CERTA ISSU. AND SO I LOOK AT ALL THE 18-YEAR-OLD, 20-YEAR-OLD MEN AND KNOW THAT I HAVE VERY CLOSE NNECTNS TO THEM EHER POSIVE OR NEGATIVE WAYS. MATT WILSTE

TIM HEICKER HAS NO TIME FOR DAVE CHAPPELLE, A ‘LEAR THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT’THE LAST LAUGHPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTY AS HE HEADS OUT ON HIS “NO MORE BULLSH” TOUR, TIM HEICKER JOS THE LAST LGH PODST TO LOOK BACK ON HIS REER AND SHARE UNFILTERED THOUGHTS ON THE STATE OF EDY.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED JUL. 12, 2022 11:35AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 12, 2022 4:43AM EDT IF YOU ONLY KNOW TIM HEICKER AS ONE HALF OF “TIM AND ERIC” WH HIS LONGTIME EDY PARTNER ERIC WAREHEIM, YOU ARE MISSG A LOT. THE EDIAN, MICIAN AND OFFICE HOURS HOST JT SET OUT ON A BIG SUMMER TOUR WHICH HIS META “NO MORE BULLSH” STAND-UP CHARACTER SHAR THE BILL WH THE “REAL” TIM PLAYG MIC OM HIS NEW ALBUM HIGH SCHOOL.IN THIS EPISO OF THE LAST LGH PODST, HEICKER HOLDS NOTHG BACK GOG AFTER JOE ROGAN (“SO BORG”), DAVE CHAPPELLE (“A LEAR THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT”) AND JIM BRER (“A TREMENDO SPIRATN”). WE ALSO LOOK BACK AT THE EARLY DAYS OF “TIM AND ERIC,” OM BOB ONKIRK’S ROLE BRGG THE DUO’S EDY TO ADULT SWIM TO THAT TIME GARY BEY ALMOST ASSLTED THEM DURG A TAPG. AND HEICKER EXPLAS WHY HAVG THE EEDOM TO EXPLORE HIS OWN SOLO PROJECTS HAS BEEN THE “KEY TO NOT HAVG A BAD BREAK-UP” WH WAREHEIM. HEICKER STARTED PERFORMG LIBERATELY TERRIBLE STAND-UP EDY ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO AT A WEEKLY OPEN MIC NIGHT HOSTED BY A IEND. “I HAD DABBLED STAND-UP EDY EARLIER MY LIFE AND WAS HEAVILY FLUENCED BY ANDY KFMAN,” HE RELLS, SCRIBG THE TAPE OF THOSE EARLY PERFORMANC HE HAS BURIED AWAY SOMEWHERE AS “THE ROSETTA STONE OF EMBARRASSMENT.”AFTER WATCHG EDIANS GET UP AND “BOMB SO BADLY” WEEK AFTER WEEK, HE CID TO TRY BOMBG ON PURPOSE AS A SORT OF “PRANK.” BUT WASN’T UNTIL HE STARTED WATCHG DONALD TMP’S MPAIGN RALLI 2015 AND 2016 THAT HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO TURN THE MATERIAL TO AN HOUR-LONG SPECIAL, WHICH HE ULTIMATELY RELEASED FOR EE ON YOUTUBE JT BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTN. “WATCHG TMP, I STARTED BEG FLUENCED BY THAT KD OF BRAGGADOC, THAT KD OF SWAGGER THAT’S TOTALLY UNSERVED,” HE EXPLAS. “THERE’S NOTHG BEHD . IT’S JT ATTU.” BEFORE THIS SUMMER, HEICKER HAD NEVER DONE A PROPER TOUR OF EHER HIS TENTNALLY BAD STAND-UP MATERIAL OR HIS SURPRISGLY SCERE MIC. “I DON’T KNOW HOW ANYTHG WORKS FOR GENERAL DIENC BUT MY CROWD SHOWS UP AND THEY’RE UP FOR ALL,” HE SAYS, ENTHIASTILLY, AHEAD OF HIS FIRST N OF SHOWS THIS PAST WEEKEND AT THE ELYSIAN THEATER LOS ANGEL. “ANECDOTALLY THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT WERE LIKE, ‘YEAH, I WASN’T REALLY TOO FAIAR WH YOUR MIC, BUT WAS SURPRISGLY GOOD!’ SO THAT’S ALWAYS A NICE THG TO HEAR.” ALONG WH OFFICE HOURS, HIS ADULT SWIM SHOW ON CEMA, AND THE SHOWTIME SERI MOONBASE 8, HEICKER’S LATT PROJECT IS ONE OF MANY RECENT YEARS WHOUT HIS LONGTIME EDY PARTNER ERIC WAREHEIM, WHO HAS BEEN FOCG ON MAKG WE AND WRG OKBOOKS. DCRIBG THE “TIM AND ERIC” PARADIGM AS “SORT OF LIMED,” HEICKER SAYS, “THERE ARE IAS I WOULD HAVE THAT DON’T REALLY WORK THE ‘TIM AND ERIC’ WORLD AND THEY STARTED FDG OTHER ROUT OUTSI OF ‘TIM AND ERIC.’ SO JT KD OF HAPPENED NATURALLY.”RIGHT BEFORE THE PANMIC, THEY PUT OUT A S PARODY AND TOURED TOGETHER, BUT HAVE SCE DRIFTED APART CREATIVELY. “FOR THE FIRST SEVERAL YEARS, ERIC AND ME, ALL OUR CREATIVE ENERGY WAS GOG TO OUR WORK TOGETHER,” HEICKER SAYS. “AND MA PRODUCE A LOT OF STUFF, BUT WE BOTH KD OF GOT LOST THE PERSONAS OF ‘TIM AND ERIC’ AND I FELT A LTLE LIKE, ‘WHO AM I AND WHAT DO I WANT TO DO?’” THEY FIGURED OUT “PRETTY QUICKLY,” HE ADDS, THAT FDG THEIR OWN SEPARATE PROJECTS “WAS THE KEY TO NOT HAVG A BAD BREAK-UP.” “RIGHT NOW I THK WE’RE JT DOG WHAT WE BOTH WANT TO DO, BUT WH THE IA THAT WE’VE GOT TO DO SOMETHG ELSE TOGETHER,” HE ADDS. “WE LOVE MAKG STUFF TOGETHER AND WHEN WE DO MAKE STUFF TOGETHER UALLY OUT PRETTY GOOD.” ADVERTISEMENT BELOW IS AN EDED EXCERPT OM OUR NVERSATN. YOU N LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THG—CLUDG STORI ABOUT THE EARLY DAYS OF TIM AND ERIC, GETTG MOSTLY CUT OUT OF ‘BRISMAIDS’ AND A LOT MORE—BY SUBSCRIBG TO THE LAST LGH ON APPLE PODSTS, SPOTIFY, GOOGLE, STCHER, AMAZON MIC, OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODSTS, AND BE THE FIRST TO HEAR NEW EPISOS WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED EVERY TUDAY.IT SEEMS LIKE THE [“NO MORE BULLSH”] B HAS EVOLVED TO YOU SORT OF REPRENTG EVERYTHG THAT YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT EDY OR THAT YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT CERTA EDIANS. ARE THERE PEOPLE THAT YOU TAKE SPIRATN OM THAT WAY?I MEAN, I DON’T WANT TO NAME NAM, THAT’S KD OF MEAN. BUT I GREW UP THE ’80S AND ’90S AND THAT WAS SORT OF THE FIRST BIG EXPLOSN OF THE BRICK WALL ICS AND THERE WAS A CERTA RNS TO . AND AS SOON AS YOU DISVERED ANYTHG THAT WAS A LTLE LEFT OF THAT OR A LTLE WEIRR THAN THAT, MA THAT FEEL VERY LAME. I WILL NAME A FEW NAM. I MEAN, JIM BRER HAS BEEN A TREMENDO SPIRATN. JT A FEW MONTHS AGO, I DID A SHOW AT LARGO HERE L.A. AND I WAS TTG OUT SOME NEW STUFF BUT THEN I SAW THAT JIM BRER HAD POSTED HIS SETLIST FOR THAT NIGHT, AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, I’M JT GOG TO TRY TO DO HIS SETLIST.I SAW YOU SHARED HIS ANTI-VACCE B THAT JT WENT VIRAL ON TWTER. AND I WAS WATCHG THAT THKG, ’S HARD TO TOP THAT TERMS OF BAD EDY, RIGHT?YEAH, I MEAN, ’LL FLUENCE ME WAYS THAT I N’T PREDICT. IT’LL JT START SHOWG UP CERTA SOUND EFFECTS I’M DOG. BUT I’VE NOTICED SO MANY OF THE EDIANS E INSTAGRAM NOW, THE VERY HEAVILY EDED CLIPS WH PTNS BIG LETTERS. IT REALLY LOOKS PROFSNAL AND LOOKS LIKE SHOULD BE GOOD NTENT AND THEN VERY RARELY IS. IT’S ALWAYS A LTLE DISAPPOTG. SO YEAH, THERE’S JT OBVLY A SURGE OF RIGHT NOW AND I DON’T REALLY UNRSTAND THE APPEAL OF . I MEAN, A LOT OF IS NFIRMATN BIAS AND PEOPLE LIKE, “THAT’S HOW I FEEL, THAT’S HOW I THK!” AND, NOT TO SOUND LIKE TMP, BUT THAT’S ON BOTH SIS TOO. THERE’S A TON OF SPEECHY-STYLE EDY THAT’S NOT QUE MAKG ME LGH. ADVERTISEMENT IT DO SEEM LIKE YOU DO ENJOY OCSNALLY GOG AFTER PEOPLE THE DIENCE FOR NOT LGHG.THAT’S ALWAYS THE CLASSIC AMATR NIGHTCLUB MOVE IS TO BE LIKE, “OH, YOU DON’T THK I’M FUNNY? WELL, THEN YOU MT BE AN IDT.” THAT’S A CLEAR TELLTALE SIGN OF SOMEBODY THAT SHOULDN’T BE THIS BS.SO YOU PUT THE SPECIAL OUT 2020 ON YOUTUBE AND I KNOW YOU PCHED TO SOME PLAC THAT DIDN'T WANT , RIGHT? NETFLIX, COMEDY CENTRAL AND OTHER PLAC.YEAH, THE STORY OF MY LIFE.WHAT KD OF FEEDBACK DID YOU GET WHEN YOU WERE PUTTG OUT THERE AND HAVG REJECTED?WELL, YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET THE STRAIGHT SOP. BUT THE ONE MSAGE THAT WAS PASSED ALONG TO ME, I THK VIA COMEDY CENTRAL, WAS A CLASSIC. IT WAS, “HE JT SEEMS LIKE HE’S MAKG FUN OF EDY.” ADVERTISEMENT WHICH IS NOT OK?THAT JT BLEW MY MD, LIKE, WHY IS THAT OFF LIMS? WHO R?IN ADDN TO MAKG FUN OF EDY THERE IS FELY A STRA OF MAKG FUN OF THIS ANTI-WOKE EDY TREND THAT WE’RE SEEG A LOT OF PLAC, WHETHER ’S THE 12-HOUR JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE PARODY THAT YOU DID OR OTHER THGS. BUT THAT ONE PARTICULAR GOT A LOT OF ATTENTN FOR YOU. HOW DID YOU CI TO DO THAT?ON OFFICE HOURS, THE PODST I DO WH VIC BERGER AND DJ DOUGGPOUND, WE GET A LTLE OBSSED WH THE CHARACTERS, ROGAN AND JORDAN PETERSON AND TIM POOL AND ALL THE PEOPLE OUT THERE. THEY HAVE HUGE DIENC AND JT BLOWS OUR MDS THAT ANYONE GIV A SH WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY. IT’S AMAZG THAT THEY HAVE THIS DIENCE. AND THERE’S JT A LN THGS TO MAKE FUN OF ABOUT AND THE THG THAT ALWAYS STCK ME ABOUT ROGAN’S PODST, OF WHICH I’VE LISTENED TO SOME—ENOUGH TO GET , I THK, GET THE GENERAL POT OF VIEW AND EVERYTHG—IS JT HOW BORG IS. IT’S SO BORG AND DRY AND I DON’T E TO ANY REAL HIGHER UNRSTANDG OF ANYTHG. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY’RE TALKG ABOUT EDY AND HAVG OTHER EDIANS ON, I JT FD SUCH A DRAG. AND SO LAME THAT SO MANY MEN HAVE JT CID THIS IS THEIR OPRAH. OR THIS IS THEIR LETTERMAN. “OH YEAH, I LISTEN TO JOE ROGAN.” WHY? WHAT ARE YOU DOG WH YOUR HOURS? I ULD UNRSTAND IF YOU’RE FALLG ASLEEP TO , THAT ULD BE THE ONLY THG. SO I SAID, I THK I KNOW HOW TO DO THIS A WAY THAT’S NOT A STRAIGHT IMPRSN, BUT SHOULD GET MY CENTRAL THIS ACROSS THAT 'S BORG. AND I LOVE JEREMY [LEVICK] AND RAJAT [SURH]. I’VE BEEN ENJOYG THEIR WORK ON TWTER. THEY ARE LIKE UP-AND-G GENI. THOSE ARE THE TWO GUYS THAT DID AND THEY WERE GREAT AS WELL, PLAYG OFF OF WHAT YOU WERE DOG. ADVERTISEMENT IT WAS SENTIALLY IMPROVISED WH A LTLE SHEET OF PAPER THAT HAD KEYWORDS AND NAM AND STUFF THAT WE WANTED TO EVENTUALLY GET TO, BUT YEAH, WAS JT REALLY FUN. AND WE JT KD OF DROPPED AND MA A LOOP, SO FELT LIKE WAS 12 HOURS. BEE THAT WAS ALWAYS MY THG WH HIM WAS LIKE, YOU ULD DIP TO ROGAN AND NOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AND NOT KNOW IF THERE’S ANY BEGNG, MIDDLE OR END.DID YOU EVER HEAR OM HIM OR ANYONE CLOSE TO HIM AFTER YOU DID THAT?NO, I KNEW PEOPLE WHO ARE SORT OF REGULARS ON HIS SHOW WERE ENJOYG . LIKE BERT KREISCHER AND TOM SEGURA, WHO ARE IENDS WH HIM, THEY WERE LOVG . SO LISTEN, YOU KNOW, FOR YEARS AND YEARS, I’VE BEEN BATIVE OR ONLE SPATS WH CERTA PEOPLE THIS BS AND I WOULD PROBABLY HAVE A GOOD CHAT WH JOE ROGAN IF I ACTUALLY SAW HIM. I DON’T HATE ANYBODY AND I DON’T WISH ANYBODY ILL WILL OR ANYTHG. BUT I ENJOY POKG THE STICK AT CERTA THGS.YOU’RE KD OF UNIQUE THAT WAY. BEE THE EDY WORLD, EVERYONE’S SORT OF PROTECTIVE OF EACH OTHER. ANOTHER THG YOU TWEETED RECENTLY WAS A MENT REFERENCE TO JOHN MULANEY BRGG UP CHAPPELLE, HAVG HIM AS A SURPRISE GUT ON HIS TOUR WHERE HE TOLD A LOT OF HIS ANTI-TRANS JOK. AND YOU WERE BASILLY THE ONLY EDIAN THAT I SAW SPEAK OUT AGAST THAT.I MEAN, LISTEN, I HAVE IENDS WHO ARE TRANS—AND THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE WORST WAY TO START THAT NVERSATN, RIGHT? BUT I REALLY DO, AND I HAVE FANS WHO ARE TRANS AND I’VE SPOKEN TO THEM ABOUT THIS AND I’VE HEARD DIRECTLY OM THEM, AND THERE IS TREMENDO ANXIETY AND UNFORTABLENS AND SADNS AND HURT THAT ’S TREATED SO FLIPPANTLY AND OFTEN DANGEROLY BY THE PEOPLE WH GIANT DIENC. AND I DON’T BELIEVE THAT JOHN MULANEY HAS ANY KD OF ISSU WH THE TRANS MUNY PERSONALLY. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I DON’T UNRSTAND WHY YOU NEED CHAPPELLE TO E OUT ONTO THE STAGE WH AN DIENCE THAT HAVE ALREADY PAID TO SEE YOU. ADVERTISEMENT IT’S NOT WHAT THEY SIGNED UP FOR.YEAH, EXACTLY. SO I DID , OF URSE, AS AN HONT STATEMENT THAT YOU SHOULD FEEL SAFE G TO MY SHOWS, THAT I’M NOT GOG TO SPRG A LEAR THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT— SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE HE R EPLY ABOUT.HE N’T STOP TALKG ABOUT .YEAH, I DID OUT OF HONTY AND A LTLE B OF SNARKY, LIKE, “FUCK OFF.” AND ALSO AS A MSAGE TO OTHER ARTISTS AND EDIANS AND MICIANS TO BE LIKE, YOU KNOW, FEEL EE TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THIS. YOU WILL FD A LOT OF ENURAGEMENT AND GRATU OM A VERY OL DIENCE. I’M SPEAKG PLETELY SELF-SERVGLY HERE, BUT IF YOU WANT TO BUILD A OL, YOUNG, CREATIVE, SMART DIENCE, THE ARE NOT THE PEOPLE YOU SHOULD BE EXCLUDG OM YOUR DIENCE. AND THAT’S NOT WHY I’M DOG , BUT THE ARE POSIVE SI EFFECTS OF JT BEG CLIVE AND UNRSTANDG OF MARGALIZED MUNI THAT YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO HAVE FULL UNRSTANDG OF, YOU JT HAVE TO BE TOLERANT AND RPECTFUL OF. AND I’LL JT SAY ONE MORE THG. WHEN I HEAR THE ANTI-TRANS EDY, JT SOUNDS LIKE THAT CHEAP ‘80S GAY STUFF. LIKE ANDREW DICE CLAY, WHO I KNOW IS DOG A CHARACTER, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT ANDREW DICE CLAY WAS PROBABLY MAKG FUN OF BUT HE GOT KD OF SWEPT TO THE DARK SI OF. “SO I DID , OF URSE, AS AN HONT STATEMENT THAT YOU SHOULD FEEL SAFE G TO MY SHOWS, THAT I’M NOT GOG TO SPRG A LEAR THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT— SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE HE R EPLY ABOUT.” OR EDDIE MURPHY TOO. ADVERTISEMENT YEAH, I MEAN ’S EASY, CHEAP FODR THAT SHOULD BE BENEATH MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OPERATG AT THAT LEVEL. AND I’M NOT TELLG ANYBODY THEY N’T DO WHATEVER THEY WANT, BUT I’M JT SAYG WHAT'S GOG TO HAPPEN AT MY SHOWS.I DO WONR IF YOU FEEL SOME RPONSIBILY TO UNTER THAT STUFF FOR YOUR OWN YOUNGER MALE FANS WHO GREW UP WATCHG TIM AND ERIC AND ULD GO DOWN THAT ROAD THEMSELV.OH, ABSOLUTELY, 100 PERCENT. I’M SURE A LOT OF THEM HAVE. I KNOW THAT WHEN WE STARTED 10, 15 YEARS AGO, WE ATTRACTED A MOSTLY NON-NFORMIST, ANTI-TABLISHMENT, YOUNGER GROUP OF MEN. AND HAS SHIFTED A LOT AND THERE’S PLENTY OF WOMEN TOO, BUT I KNOW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHG APPEALG ABOUT THE NIHILISM OF OUR WORK THAT WAS FELY ANTI-THORARIAN OR ANTI-TABLISHMENT. AND YOU N TAKE THAT TO THE LEFT OR TO THE RIGHT AND I THK A LOT OF GUYS DID, THE TMP ERA, 2015, 2016 AND ONWARD, WENT THAT WAY. AND ULDN’T BELIEVE THAT I WOULD NOT BE TO THAT TOO. A LOT OF THEM WERE LIKE, “I THOUGHT YOU GET THAT NOTHG MATTERS AND THIS GUY IS A PLETE STROYER OF WORLDS AND HE’S GOG TO TEAR DOWN THE TABLISHMENT, WHY AREN’T YOU TO THAT TOO?” AND I’M LIKE, WELL, I GET THAT, BUT I’M ALSO A LIBERAL ARTIST THEATER DU WHO GREW UP BELIEVG CERTA AXMS THAT ARE STILL TE TO ME. AND I THK THIS IS A N JOB THAT THIS GUY IS PERFORMG AND YOU’RE GETTG SWEPT UP TO SOMETHG THAT YOU DON’T UNRSTAND. AND JT THE OTHER DAY WH THE SHOOTER ON THE ROOF, I SEE THE GUYS AND I’M JT LIKE THAT ULD EASILY BE A FAN, ULD EASILY BE A FORMER FAN OR THE SAME KIDS THAT ARE WRG THAT I’M A “CUCK.” I’VE RECEIVED PLENTY OF ATH THREATS AND PLENTY OF TERRIBLE TROLLG FOR BEG OUTSPOKEN ON CERTA ISSU. AND SO I LOOK AT ALL THE 18-YEAR-OLD, 20-YEAR-OLD MEN AND KNOW THAT I HAVE VERY CLOSE NNECTNS TO THEM EHER POSIVE OR NEGATIVE WAYS. MATT WILSTE

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