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"While much of the early promotion for the project involves Heidecker doing his spot-on Alex Jones impression, he explained that exclusively lampooning an increasingly irrelevant man is not a path to building a long-lasting comedy institution. Instead, he plans to turn InfoWars into the kind of broader comedy brand that platformed him early in his career.

'I think most satire gets old pretty quickly, and we don’t want to keep fueling [Jones],' Heidecker said. 'So the plan is to goof on him for a few months, and have fun with it, and then transition the site into a comedy streaming platform for people that he would hate to see have success.'

He expressed that his ultimate hope would be for his InfoWars to play the kind of role in the comedy ecosystem that Adult Swim and Comedy Central once did, allowing comedians from all backgrounds to experiment and create their first big projects.

'We’re starting like Adult Swim era 2006. All these great basic cable platforms stopped making stuff. Or they stopped taking big swings or trying new voices, experimental shows. It all just moved to Instagram or TikTok. All these very talented young people are just twisting in the wind,' he said... [Early Adult Swim] 'brought up a lot of voices, a lot of individual artists who are now doing great things. And we hope it’s a little bit of that.'"

There was an ep where the caller had this long set up and the pun was “Kneel in the grass and tie your shoe son” or something like that!? What was this?

I get Tim is playing his usually character of being a dick and verbally abusing people, which I often wonder if art imitates life, but the energy seems to have shifted over the last few months. Could Vic’s presentation been a little more polished? Yes. But it doesn’t seem like he is always supported or set up for success like Doug is. I get that Doug is the golden child in Tim’s universe and he deserves the credit he gets; I just really don’t think Vic feels acknowledged or appreciated by the rest of the crew. Doug is probably is strongest supporter though. I think producer Matt is so overly smug and arrogant that sometimes I can’t stand to hear his remarks. I’m probably the only one that feels this way and I’m sure I’ll get roasted, which is fine. Most likely, this show is just not for me anymore and I can find other ways to support the boys individually. Just adding my thoughts. But if Vic is ever on Reddit, I just want ya to know you have a lot of fans and we appreciate your talent and your contributions. Maybe it’s all fun ribbing, but if it’s not, just know you have cemented your legacy as a comedy legend to many of us.