Commentary: Tim Heidecker isn't worried about Alex Jones exploding, metaphorically speaking

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Set us as preferred Tim Heidecker, known as the Tim in “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” and for “On Cinema at the Cinema,” a 16-year conceptual soap opera barely in the guise of a movie review show, is now also the creative director of the Onion’s guerrilla takeover of Alex Jones’ InfoWars.With a Texas appeals court having paused the satirical news organization’s acquisition of InfoWars’ intellectual and physical property in the wake of Jones declaring bankruptcy after a more than $1 billion judgment against him for characterizing the Sandy Hook massacre as a hoax, they went ahead anyway with their online parody.

Made with the triple goal of embarrassing Jones, creating a revenue stream for the Sandy Hook families out of their profits — merch has reportedly flown out the door — and, not least, making comedy, the Onion’s InfoWars premiered on YouTube on July 2 and will continue to debut new episodes weekly, every Thursday at 5 p.m.Pacific.

Heidecker hosts as what may be described as Tim Heidecker as Alex Jones, but not Alex Jones, whom the show has declared dead, popping him “like a balloon” in his car.There is video.

I spoke with Heidecker between the premieres of the first and second episodes; these are edited excerpts from the conversation.World & Nation The Onion is seeking a license to operate Infowars as a parody site while right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ company faces liquidation for owing Sandy Hook families over $1 billion in defamation damages.You approached the Onion when you first heard that they were trying to acquire InfoWars.

What drove you to make that call?On “Office Hours,” my podcast call-in show, Alex always comes up, and there was this interest in my mind, if they got InfoWars, maybe we could get the hard drives, we could get the raw footage, and mayb...