Tim & Eric

About

Tim Heidecker and Erick Wareheim are an American comedy duo known for producing the sketch comedy television series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! on the Adult Swim cable television network.

History

Heidecker and Wareheim met while attending Temple University in the mid 1990s. In 2002, the pair launched the website TimAndEric.com,^[1] where they released short sketch comedy videos. In 2004, Tim & Eric created the Adult Swim animated television series Tom Goes to the Mayor (shown below, left). In 2007, the show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! premiered on Adult Swim, featuring bizarre, surreal and satirical comedy sketches (shown below, right).

In 2009, the duo assisted Tommy Wiseau to develop the television pilot The Neighbors (shown below, left). In 2010, the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! spin-off show Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule was launched on Adult Swim, starring actor John C. Reilly as the witless Dr. Steve Brule who examines various aspects of life (shown below, right).

In 2012, the comedy film Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie was released, in which Tim & Eric are given a $1 billion budget to produce a film (shown below, left). In September 2014, Adult Swim premiered the first episode of Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories, a horror-comedy anthology series (shown below, right).

Jash

In March 2013, Tim & Eric collaborated with actor Michael Cera, comedian Sarah Silverman and musician Reggie Watts to launch the comedy YouTube channel Jash.^[2] The duo provided six short episodes of a show titled Tim & Eric’s Go Pro Show, a faux reality show featuring footage recorded with GoPro cameras attached to their heads.

Brand Advertisements

On September 29th, 2014, the General Electric YouTube channel released a commercial starring actor Jeff Goldblum created by Tim & Eric for their brand of LED light bulbs (shown below, left). In the first month, the video gained over 1.8 million views and 1,400 comments. On November 5th, the Totinos Pizza Rolls YouTube channel uploaded an ad for the snack food brand created by Tim & Eric, which garnered upwards of 320,000 views and 130 comments within 48 hours (shown below, right).

Social Media Feeds

As of November 2014, “The Official Tim and Eric Fan Page!” Facebook^[4] page has received more than 62,000 likes and the @OfficialTandE^[3] Twitter feed has garnered over 11,000 followers.

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