Tim Heidecker Is Bringing His Joe Rogan Parody Show to The Onion
Tim Heidecker Is Bringing His Joe Rogan Parody Show to The Onion
蒂姆·海德克（Tim Heidecker）将把他的乔·罗根（Joe Rogan）模仿秀带到《洋葱报》（The Onion）
As satirical news outlet The Onion continued to wage a legal battle to acquire the assets of Infowars out of bankruptcy this summer, it launched a streaming program that spoofed the brand and its bellowing conspiracist ringleader, Alex Jones. 今年夏天，当讽刺新闻媒体《洋葱报》继续通过法律手段争取在破产程序中收购 Infowars 的资产时，该媒体推出了一档流媒体节目，对 Infowars 品牌及其大声疾呼的阴谋论领袖亚历克斯·琼斯（Alex Jones）进行了恶搞。
Comedian Tim Heidecker took the reins of the operation, adopting Jones’ guttural and paranoid bluster as he investigated, among other unconfirmed reports, whether Jones himself had exploded in his car after eating too much Whataburger. 喜剧演员蒂姆·海德克接手了这一项目，他模仿琼斯那充满喉音且偏执狂躁的咆哮风格，调查了包括“琼斯本人是否因吃了太多 Whataburger 汉堡而在车里爆炸”在内的各种未经证实的报道。
But Heidecker wasn’t about to stop there in his quest to transform the Infowars brand into a gonzo comedy network along the lines of Adult Swim. Now he’s taking aim at another high-profile target: Joe Rogan, the bro podcaster whose rambling, misinformed conversations with everyone from Vice President JD Vance to [checks notes] Yakov Smirnoff have somehow kept his long-running series, The Joe Rogan Experience, at the top of the charts for years. 但海德克并不打算就此止步，他致力于将 Infowars 品牌转型为一个类似于 Adult Swim 的“狂野喜剧”网络。现在，他将目标对准了另一位重量级人物：乔·罗根。这位“兄弟型”播客主与从副总统 JD·万斯到（查阅笔记）雅科夫·斯米诺夫（Yakov Smirnoff）等各色人等进行着漫无边际且充满误导性的谈话，而这些内容竟让他的长青节目《乔·罗根体验》（The Joe Rogan Experience）多年来一直稳居排行榜榜首。
Heidecker’s companion show, The Tim Heidecker Podcast, premieres at 8 pm ET on Thursday night, and WIRED can exclusively reveal that the debut episode includes lots of complaining about pronouns, wildly dumb speculation around AI, and plugs for a supplement called “Crab Salts” that makes your “head hurt” and causes you to shout. 海德克的配套节目《蒂姆·海德克播客》（The Tim Heidecker Podcast）将于周四晚美东时间 8 点首播。《连线》（WIRED）杂志可以独家透露，首集内容包括大量关于代词的抱怨、围绕人工智能的极其愚蠢的猜测，以及为一种名为“螃蟹盐”（Crab Salts）的补剂打广告——据说这种补剂会让你“头痛”并忍不住大喊大叫。
A representative for Rogan did not immediately return a request for comment. 罗根的代表没有立即回复置评请求。
Heidecker first lampooned Rogan’s discursive and disorganized interviews in 2021, with a viral 12-hour podcast (in reality, one hour of footage looped a dozen times) covering topics including psychedelics, cancel culture, and whether Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would run for president. His guests for that show, comedy duo and Onion contributors Rajat Suresh and Jeremy Levick, return for the new episode, offering their “expert” takes on hot-button topics. (The pair have essentially perfected the art of fake celebrity web content and once even got Justin Theroux in on the joke for a mock Hollywood Reporter-style actors roundtable.) 海德克曾在 2021 年首次讽刺过罗根那种离题且杂乱无章的采访风格，当时他制作了一个病毒式传播的 12 小时播客（实际上是将一小时的素材循环播放了十二次），涵盖了迷幻药、取消文化以及道恩·“巨石”·强森（Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson）是否会竞选总统等话题。该节目的嘉宾——喜剧二人组兼《洋葱报》撰稿人拉贾特·苏雷什（Rajat Suresh）和杰里米·莱维克（Jeremy Levick）——将回归新一集节目，就热门话题发表他们的“专家”见解。（这对搭档基本上已经完善了伪造名人网络内容的艺术，甚至曾让贾斯汀·塞洛克斯（Justin Theroux）参与其中，共同完成了一场模仿《好莱坞报道者》风格的演员圆桌会议。）
“What is essentially happening is, in place of Christianity, we have the 10 commandments of woke,” Levick says during a discussion of DEI policies on the first episode of The Tim Heidecker Podcast. The chat veers into concerns that bearded men are留着胡子的男人正在打扮成公主去迪士尼乐园。海德克随后突然告诉这两人，他计划周末去格拉斯哥进行“苏格兰摔跤”。
In 2026, it’s more difficult than ever to exaggerate the absurdities of the right-wing media ecosystem, with its fact-free moral panics and bizarre alternative medicines. Though if anyone is up to the task, it’s the endlessly inventive Heidecker—who will have no shortage of grifters and lunatics to go after once he’s done with his run as a Rogan type. Luckily for him, few of those potential impressions are as rough on the voice as Alex Jones. 在 2026 年，想要夸大右翼媒体生态系统的荒谬性变得比以往任何时候都更困难，因为那里充斥着脱离事实的道德恐慌和离奇的替代疗法。不过，如果说有人能胜任这项任务，那一定是创意无限的海德克——一旦他结束了对罗根式人物的模仿，他将有源源不断的骗子和疯子可以作为攻击目标。对他来说幸运的是，在这些潜在的模仿对象中，很少有人像亚历克斯·琼斯那样对嗓子造成那么大的负担。