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This is not final and still has to be approved by a judge (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo...)

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> Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.”

> Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy.

> “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,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview.

Birds aren't real 2.0

I love it.

Right up with the crypto scam that followed it. Great.

In case you didn't know, the creators of Birds aren't real rug pulled and stole millions with their crypto coin.

If true, you have to admire their commitment to the bit.

I didn't find anything about this though.

You want to look for Enron - they bought the hostname as part of something

I saw a couple stories about that which suggested it was a parody shitcoin. Even if not, the name Enron should've been an obvious clue.

I was unaware of that, disappointing.

heidecker has been honing this persona for years now in the On Cinema universe. looking forward to this quite a bit

He understands the modern conservative male mindset better than anyone, it's amazing

Tim Heidecker... from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_%26_Eric

From Decker vs. Dracula

Only a real film buff will appreciate this

Of course Hacker News would be full of Greggheads.

Free Real Estate

His brand of comedy is very hit-or-miss for me (the best way I can describe it is "smug"), but context drives me to wish him luck in his presumed efforts to turn InfoWars into a literal joke instead of just a figurative one.

I would describe it as absurdism.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Neutral third party Gemini T. Google, what say you?

  Tim and Eric's Title Explained 

  By calling the show "Awesome" and "Great" before the viewer has even seen it, Tim and Eric lean into a persona of unearned confidence.

Neat.

For contrast, this is what I'd call absurdism without being smug: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fs...

I can see that - kind of like Will Ferrell has reflected on playing dumb people who are extremely confident. So I feel smug does slot in there but I don't feel like it defines it.

“Tinkle Outside the Binkle” is exactly something Tim would say.

"Neutral third party Gemini T. Google"

yeah public traded companies that donate heavily to the GOP are neutral

My favorite recent thing from Tim Heidecker was him interviewing Fred Armisen in the style of Bill Maher. The parody is uncanny. I could see him doing a really good Alex Jones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ha6D1LQGD4

I think it's better if they keep all the URLs as they are right now, but then add misinformation into each page and put a big banner saying that this site is parody. Then search and AI will index this and then it will another lawsuit from Alex Jones to get the information removed from those alternate sources.

> then add misinformation into each page

As opposed to the current factual information?

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