From WIRED's Uncanny Valley: Tim Heidecker Thinks Twitter Should Be a World Heritage Site
About this episode
Tim Heidecker discusses the future of Infowars and the evolution of political comedy with WIRED's Katie Drummond.
The satirical news publication The Onion is trying to take over Infowars, formerly owned by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and planning to put comedian Tim Heidecker in charge. Their vision is to turn Infowars into ‘Adult Swim’ for the internet. Tim joins WIRED's Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond for the Big Interview, to talk about political comedy, why late-night has run its course, and what he hopes the future of Infowars will look like.Listen and subscribe to Uncanny Valley here.
Topics covered
- political comedy
- media transformation
- satire
- late-night television
- Infowars
- comedy leadership
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