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Although they just finished airing the finale of the fourth season of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, co-creators/stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim aren't sitting back and sipping white wine (or Absolut) yet.
When Paste recently interviewed the pair for our upcoming festival issue (they're set to perform at Sasquatch and All Points West), they spilled some beans about a bevy of upcoming projects, including their untitled feature-film debut.
"The one big difference between the Awesome Show and the movie, I think, is our decision to have Richard Lewis write and direct it," Heidecker said. To which this interviewer responded, "Are you serious? You can't be serious." Swift and forceful reply: "Of course I'm not!"
Following that feisty bit of leg-pulling and a mini-bicker between the two about whether or not this information could be revealed, Wareheim announced that the "people we've been working with are helping us to create something that's going to be totally amazing and new and mindblowing" and that the people in question are, in fact, Hollywood hot shots Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, who will produce the movie that Tim and Eric are currently imagineering.
Besides the movie, Tim and Eric are finishing up Check It Out!, the Awesome Show spin-off featuring John C. Reilly's ineffable Dr. Steve Brule as he heads out of the studio and onto the streets for some "man about town"-style journalism. Wareheim reports that bits will leak into the fifth season of Awesome Show, which is scheduled for production this summer, with Check It Out! debuting sometime in "late '09, early 2010."
But wait! That's not all, T&E junkies! The duo will contribute four sketches to the HBO debut of Funny or Die, a half-hour program filled with bite-size videos sprung from the twisted minds of the many comedians who contribute to FunnyorDie.com, the website started in 2006 by Ferrell and McKay.
Wareheim offered tantalizing details about two of the four: one is a "sitcom" dubbed "Just Three Boys," featuring him, Tim, and frequent collaborator Zach Galifianakis; another is a "religious talk show called 'Morning Prayer with Scott and Bear'" with guests Will Forte, Bob Odenkirk, and Frank Black (yes, that Frank Black). The Funny or Die TV show began production this spring, but no air dates have been set yet.
Check out Paste's upcoming festival issue for more about Tim and Eric's summer plans, and stay tuned to this very website for more outtakes from the interview.
Related links:
TimAndEric.com
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! on Adult Swim
Feature: Catching Up With... Tim and Eric (2008)
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I have never once found that show remotely funny. Cartoon Network cancels a great show like The Boondocks and garbage like Tim & Eric gets to become a feature.
I hate Yvonne.
Is it too much to ask for a Spaghett cameo?
I have never once found the Boondocks remotely funny. Cartoon Network cancels a garbage show like the Boondocks and great shows like Tim & Eric get to become a feature.
Yvonne, where'd you hear about Boondocks getting cancelled? Aaron McGruder has said that they're working on season three, with someone on the Television Without Pity message boards claiming that it'll air (on Adult Swim) as soon as this summer...
Also check this interview with McGruder: "...there are some things that McGruder is, in fact, pretty tight-lipped about; for one, he can’t talk about Season 3 of The Boondocks, beyond the fact that it’s in production and will still be aired on Adult Swim sometime in 2009."
I also hate Yvonne.
Sorry guys, I was forced to make my previous comment while at gunpoint.
I actually love Tim and Eric.
dont believe u. T&E is one of the most amazing/craziest shows of all time! now all adult swim has to do is bring back Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast. then i will be HAPPPPPYY!
This movie will be a great success...unless - not to sound like an a-hole - there are too many over controlling, self-absorbed producer types w/ strong personalities steering it off course -- if I could talk directly to anyone involved with producing this movie, I would beg them to not turn it into an Asscat or Anchorman - or SNL ensemble formula harvard-lampoon-barf-van-wilder-what-the-wet-american-flat-summer-horribly-unfunny movie. - barf is cool, don't get me wrong- like when the beaver boys barf all over themselves - I just think Tim and Eric's style is so unique and it can't be imitated - those who try risk turning it into canned ham - that would be bad - and it is my feeling the movie will be awesome if tim and eric and who ever else normally collaborate with - like zach galafanakis and boob odenkirk, ad miles and john c reilly from the short form show - the original tim and eric people should be given the creative control. Keeping it real and low tech and lowbudget but with actually a nice budget so everyone is comfortable and excellently-well paid will also make the process of building the film more enjoyable - more pleasure in the process will make for a better movie -hope that folks like jack black and will ferrell will make the movie so supra-high profile enough to get it a wide international release - promoting nicer dividends $$$ - hope everyone enjoys making the film - good luck. Would also be cool if the comedy powers that be would not make these projects such an uber-sausage fest- but that's a different topic for another forum
Sit on you all!
SHRIMP AND WHITE WINE
been down with t+e since before tom goes to the mayor...this is awesome news. if anyone deserves squirty-nippled success, it's tim and eric.
i'll see it in the theater many times and will buy the dvd
tim and eric = the best entertainment since tad ghostal
The Boondocks sucks horribly. Maybe I just don't like hearing kids call each other "nigger" for 20 minutes and then someone fights someone and sit disappointedly when I realize that the show is over and nothing happened at all but now 30 minutes of my life are gone.
WORST-SHOW- EVER