Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

[number8]

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Teaser trailer:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a8250afb53/t-e?rel=player

Yep.

[D_Davis]

There is not enough weed in the world...

[Spun Lepton]

I'd sooner rip out my teeth with a pair of pliers.

[Boner M]

Ray Wise, Robert Loggia, Jeff Goldblum are in this. Nice.

[Acapelli]

can't wait

[Dead & Messed Up]

These guys are reeeeeeeally hit-or-miss for me. I don't know if I can stomach a full movie of their " 'antics' ".

[Ezee E]

90 minutes of this? I don't think so.

Youtube clips are good enough for me.

[Milky Joe]

Yessssss! It's been too long since Awesome Show ended.

[number8]

My favorite description of these guys came from Eric himself:


I guess The Office is supposed to be funny and David Lynch is supposed to be creepy, but for us it feels like the same thing.

[EyesWideOpen]

The way some people think of Monty Python is the way I think of Tim and Eric and I'm being completely serious. I just spent $80 getting a Tim and Eric print framed 2 weeks ago.

[Boner M]

Tim's stand-up is really good too.

[MadMan]

Never been a fan of the show. I imagine it'll be just like the ATHF movie: a regular episode stretched out for a 90 minute movie.

[Dukefrukem]

Will never seen this. Ever! Even if there's a fire.

[[ETM]]

I just... I... what?

[Derek]

So there. This will be partly unbearable, partly brilliant and my head may or may not explode.

[Derek]

Ray Wise, Robert Loggia, Jeff Goldblum are in this. Nice.

But not Jackie Chan??

[Milky Joe]

The way some people think of Monty Python is the way I think of Tim and Eric and I'm being completely serious. I just spent $80 getting a Tim and Eric print framed 2 weeks ago.

I'm with you. They are totally this generation's Python.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I'm with you. They are totally this generation's Python.

You think so? From what I've seen of Tim and Eric, they traffic more in audience discomfort than they do in satire or silliness (not that those don't enter into the mix). Python wanted to push the boundaries of where humor could go, whereas I feel like Tim and Eric want to blur the line of what comedy is.

[MadMan]

I'm with you. They are totally this generation's Python.:|

[Dead & Messed Up]

Also, Python is this generation's Python. Just like the Beatles are this generation's Beatles.

[D_Davis]

Comparing them to MP makes sense to me, because I don't really like MP either, beyond a once-every-five-year viewing of Holy Grail.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Comparing them to MP makes sense to me, because I don't really like MP either, beyond a once-every-five-year viewing of Holy Grail.

You ever watch Life of Brian?

[Ivan Drago]

This must include Dr. Steve Brule or GTFO.

[number8]

Comparing them to MP makes sense to me, because I don't really like MP either, beyond a once-every-five-year viewing of Holy Grail.

http://slackwise.net/files/images/Tim%20and%20Eric%20-%20Space%20Explosions.gif

[D_Davis]

You ever watch Life of Brian?

Yeah, I have. Just don't get it.

I like a lot of the MP guys outside of MP. I LOVE Fawlty Towers, for instance.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Yeah, I have. Just don't get it.

I like a lot of the MP guys outside of MP. I LOVE Fawlty Towers, for instance.

A Fish Called Wanda?

[D_Davis]

A Fish Called Wanda?

Yep - like it.

I think the MP guys are hilarious...I just don't like much MP.

[Acapelli]

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[Dukefrukem]

Not funny

[number8]

But not Jackie Chan??

I'm not a T&E fan, but that sketch makes me laugh like nobody's business.

[number8]

Will never seen this. Ever! Even if there's a fire.

What movie would you watch in case of a fire?

[Dukefrukem]

What movie would you watch in case of a fire?

The Dark Knight Rises. Inception 2. Evil Dead Remake.

[Dead & Messed Up]

The Dark Knight Rises. Inception 2. Evil Dead Remake.

You mean IN2EPTION?

[Milky Joe]

You think so? From what I've seen of Tim and Eric, they traffic more in audience discomfort than they do in satire or silliness (not that those don't enter into the mix).

Maybe you haven't seen enough, because a) their stuff is easily the "silliest" comedy around today (they are just as silly today as Python was back then; the thing is that what constitutes silliness has changed in this post-internet post-corporate-media post-60s-innocence world) and b) virtually everything they do is satire. They are probably the most pointed satirists alive today. Of course with a healthy dose of Lynchian discomfort and weirdness, but that's only a part of it, not at all the whole thing.

Take this for example:

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Python wanted to push the boundaries of where humor could go, whereas I feel like Tim and Eric want to blur the line of what comedy is.

I'm not seeing the difference between those two things.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Maybe you haven't seen enough, because a) their stuff is easily the "silliest" comedy around today (they are just as silly today as Python was back then; the thing is that what constitutes silliness has changed in this post-internet post-corporate-media post-60s-innocence world) and b) virtually everything they do is satire. They are probably the most pointed satirists alive today. Of course with a healthy dose of Lynchian discomfort and weirdness, but that's only a part of it, not at all the whole thing.

Maybe it's that their "Lynchian discomfort" strikes me as a defining trait that separates them from many of their peers (Odenkirk and Cross, for example). Anyway, it seems like we're basically on the same page and are only arguing degrees.

I do love some Morning Prayer. Praise Rang.


I'm not seeing the difference between those two things.

Mostly that Python was more interested in placing comic escalation in unexpected circumstances (emphasizing content over form), whereas Tim and Eric are more interested in destroying the tenets of traditional comedy and searching for the bizarre and grotesque that lie just over the line.

That's not to say these are their exclusive interests or anything, just that they seem to have distinct and different goals. I do think that if Tim and Eric are "Pythonesque" in any sense, they're Gilliam-esque, since his animations were less about comedy hits and more about exploring his baroque artistic idiosyncrasies.

"Find the Fish" from Meaning of Life wouldn't be out of place in a T&E show.

[Spun Lepton]

Monty Python is the yardstick by which I measure a person's sense of humor. D, I am disappoint.

And comparing it to T&E is especially infuriating.

[Milky Joe]

That's not to say these are their exclusive interests or anything, just that they seem to have distinct and different goals.

True, but the point I'm trying (and probably failing to) make is that their goals are distinct and different only because the context in which they're operating is different, but that in a larger sense they are really the same. I would argue that Python too were destroying the traditional tenets of comedy and searching for the bizarre (maybe not grotesque exactly, except perhaps in, as you say, Gilliam's animations), but that the bizarre back in the 60s was different from the bizarre today. So T&E's brand of comedy is necessarily more extreme and grotesque than Python's because the zeitgeist has changed so radically. That's what I mean when I say they are "this generation's Python."

Hosana.

[Milky Joe]

Red Band trailer is OUT (NSFW, obviously):

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/12/02/tim-erics-billion-dollar-movie-red-band-trailer

this will be the greatest

[number8]

Oh, so it's actually a narrative feature. Didn't expect that.

[EyesWideOpen]

Quall!!

[Ivan Drago]

Sold.

[[ETM]]

That Shrim video is probably the weirdest thing I have ever seen. It's haunting me.

[D_Davis]

Monty Python is the yardstick by which I measure a person's sense of humor. D, I am disappoint.


For me its Adam Sandler and Kevin James movies, which are pretty much the definition of comedic genius.

[D_Davis]

As far as awkward, uncomfortable and weird humor goes, I definitely prefer Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Snuff Box. I've never seen anything funnier than Darkplace.

[Russ]

As far as awkward, uncomfortable and weird humor goes...

It's Jam for me. Going off-topic for a moment with this clip...


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I've never really seen Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Guess I'll have to fix that.

Kinda mixed on Tim and Eric's stuff. Seems to range from insanely brilliant to intolerable. Have to give their stuff another shot too. I do like the trailer.

[Dead & Messed Up]

As far as awkward, uncomfortable and weird humor goes, I definitely prefer Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Snuff Box. I've never seen anything funnier than Darkplace.

:lol:

Blood?...blood.

Funny how the show transitions from a pitch-perfect send-up of inept horror filmmaking into a sly examination of Marenghi's subsumed perversities.

[D_Davis]

:lol:

Blood?...blood.

Funny how the show transitions from a pitch-perfect send-up of inept horror filmmaking into a sly examination of Marenghi's subsumed perversities.

Blood.

:D

[Pop Trash]

I feel like Tom Green was doing this type of postmodern 80s/90s community access show humor almost 15 years ago. Andy Kaufman was doing it 30 years ago. Meh.

[Milky Joe]

"I Don't Get It:" A Guide to Tim & Eric for Mem-Mems and Pep-Peps (http://www.cathyafisher.com/2011/12/i-dont-get-it-a-guide-to-tim-eric-for-mem-mems-and-pep-peps.html)

[Russ]

As far as awkward, uncomfortable and weird humor goes, I definitely prefer Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Snuff Box. I've never seen anything funnier than Darkplace.
Some belated rep to both you and K-Fan for the Marenghi rec. I can't remember the last time I laughed as hard (and I still have 5 episodes to go!)

[Kurosawa Fan]

Some belated rep to both you and K-Fan for the Marenghi rec. I can't remember the last time I laughed as hard (and I still have 5 episodes to go!)

I'd rank it as one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. It's pure comedy gold, and its cancellation was likely a blessing, as the brief run kept the format from growing stale.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I'd rank it as one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. It's pure comedy gold, and its cancellation was likely a blessing, as the brief run kept the format from growing stale.

Stop making me rewatch Darkplace.

"If everyone you ever loved died, maybe you'd be sarcastic too."
"That makes sense."