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Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, This is our story, and this is who we are, and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.
Tim Heidecker
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Tim Heidecker
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 3
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I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
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The scariest thing about screening a comedy ... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.
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When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
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