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My Take
What I admire most about Tim Heidecker is his willingness to make comedy that is deliberately uncomfortable. The intentionally cheap aesthetics and excruciating pauses of Tim and Eric are not accidents; they are a precise, almost avant-garde sensibility disguised as nonsense. There is real intelligence and discipline behind that chaos, which is why he can also slip convincingly into films like Ant-Man and the Wasp or Us. I find his refusal to be easily understood genuinely refreshing in a comedy landscape obsessed with being likable. He is one of those rare performers whose elusiveness is the whole point, and I respect it deeply.
Overview
Timothy Richard Heidecker (; born February 3, 1976) is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician. Along with Eric Wareheim, he is one half of the comedy duo Tim & Eric. As an actor, Heidecker's filmography includes roles in Bridesmaids (2011), Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012), The Comedy (2012), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Us (2019).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Tim Heidecker
- Name (Japanese)
- ティム・ハイデッカー
- Reading
- てぃむ・はいでっかー
- Born
- February 3, 1976 (age 50)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Dragon
- Origin
- Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- screenwriter / actor / television producer / film director / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Allentown Central Catholic High School
- University
- Temple University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | On Cinema | — | |
| Notable work | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | — | |
| Notable work | Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie | — |
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.timheidecker.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/timheidecker/
- Xhttps://x.com/timheidecker
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Heidecker
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.