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The Political Orphanage

Tim Heidecker & Gregg Turkington on Political Satire

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Politics, Comedy, News

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ep. 28 Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington are two notorious comedians, famous for "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" and the character Neil Hamburger, respectively. They star in the show "On Cinema," and recently released a political satire mockumentary, "Mister America." They join Heaton to talk about their film, and the making of political satire. 

6:15 - Tim Heidecker interview

27:05 - Gregg Turkington interview

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the political orphanage. I'm your host Andrew Heaton, but sometimes I am also Brian Williams.

0:16.0

Bet you didn't know that.

0:18.0

The show you're listening to is an endless cavalcade of political thinkers, comedians, journalists, and authors, the occasional Pulitzer

0:25.2

Prize winner and or international fugitive, all of whom we bring on to help make sense of our current

0:30.6

political landscape.

0:32.1

For an audience of smart, kind people who are more

0:35.2

interested in thinking than shouting and like hearing from lots of different vantage points.

0:40.8

Today we are going to bring on some comedians to weigh in on political satire.

0:45.0

In fact, two big names in the comedy community, Tim Heideker and Greg Turkington.

0:49.2

Tim Heideker came onto the national scene with his show, Tim Eric awesome show great job if you haven't seen

0:55.1

him in that or the related Tim and Eric's billion dollar movie which also includes

0:59.1

Zach Galifanacus and Will Farrell you might recognize him from Bidesmaids, Ant Man, and The Wasp, and most recently

1:05.4

us, which is Jordan Peel's latest blockbuster.

1:09.1

In 2012, he teamed up with Greg Turkington to star in a show called On Cinema, which is vaguely kind of sort of a deranged comedic

1:17.9

version of Siskill and Ebert.

1:20.4

Greg Turkington himself is well known as the comedian who plays Neil Hamburger

1:24.0

who perfected a kind of uncomfortable, offensive version of dad jokes long before the term

1:29.6

dad jokes came into vogue. Not exactly what he does, but think of him as a dark ominous foreshadowing of

1:35.9

dad jokes to come in that particular role. They're going to swing on to the show separately,

1:39.8

one after the other, which prompts me to think, if they're not coming on my show at the

1:44.3

same time maybe they're the same person the same way that Bruce Wayne is

1:51.2

actually Spider-Man.

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