The sketches that they seemed to like were "Moms", "Officer Maggot" and "The Prodigal Stun(na)". I read through many archived threads from the deleted MDE reddit doing research for the film, and if you'll take my word for it, even very few MDE fans considered the Adult Swim show to do justice to MDE "at their best". My favorite bad example is the "How To Make Tap Water" sketch ( go to minute 56 of my film to see it), which compounds its lack of humour with gratuitous homophobia. Hyde clearly had too many toadies and yes-men laughing at anything he said. I was willing to give their YouTube channel the benefit of the doubt, but I knew my Adult Swim and I could tell when comedy just didn't have the right beats. I got the impression that it was as much a "community" thing as it was a "comedy" thing.Īnyway, eventually they had their Adult Swim show and that broke the spell for me. ![]() Perhaps a lot of them were originally posted on his toxic Reddit board, and not intended to be watched as a back catalogue, without context? I occasionally chuckled at the better-produced offerings, so I became a subscriber, but generally their videos tried my patience. Just browsing around them on YouTube, the intent of most of MDE uploads was completely opaque. Most of them were just shot around their "production studio" with their cameras. I mean, the videos were just bad technically speaking: because of shaky camera or noise/inaudible bits. So I was impressed with how he was making the audience of a TED talk, as well as the speakers at TED talks, the butt of the joke.Īnyway, my appreciation of Hyde cooled off quickly, because his YouTube channel was full of videos that were unwatchable, unlistenable, incomprehensible or indecypherable. I was a big fan of Tim and Eric already, and I liked the idea of "anti-comedy" as a sort of new wave in comedy. ![]() Not proud, but I started the first CaB thread on Hyde when his aforementioned "2070 Paradigm Shift" TedX talk first came out. Mentioned upthread, but I'll shill for myself once again - I made a documentary (of sorts) about the Hyde/Heidecker feud (/spat, /vendetta, whatever), " I Am A Cuck: Tim Heidecker vs The Alt Right", link here:
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