TIM AND ERIC

By Rob Turbovsky

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It takes 10 seconds of watching Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! to know if you worship it or if you feel like deluging message boards with manifestos about how terrible the show is and that it must be destroyed. Now, you can sort through those feelings in person, when show masterminds Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim bring their caravan of emotionally disturbed characters to Boston. Squares, take cover.

ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THE SHOW IS HOW ODD YOUR SENSIBILITY IS. THERE'S NO OBVIOUS PLACE TO LAUGH.

Eric: Some dude wrote us and said, "I watched your show and didn't laugh once. Then, on the way to work the next day, I had to pull over because I was laughing so hard." That pretty much sums up some of the humor.

THESMOKINGGUN.COM HAS AN ARCHIVE OF TOUR RIDERS. IGGY POP ASKS FOR A BOB HOPE IMPERSONATOR, AND ROBIN WILLIAMS ASKS THAT THE LABELS BE REMOVED FROM HIS BOTTLES OF WATER.

Tim: What an asshole!

SO, WHAT'S YOUR FANTASY TOUR RIDER? OR IF YOU HAVE ONE, WHAT'S ON IT?

Eric: Judging from last tour, just a place to pee. On a number of occasions, we've been in a position where we're backstage with no bathroom. When you drink 10 or 12 Heinekens in the course of an hour, you have to pee a lot.

Tim: We've actually resorted to having our tour manager get us cups. And we pee in cups. So, a bathroom would be great.

Eric: Sometimes those cups fill up.

Tim: We have to dump them out before we leave, and sometimes we forget.

Eric: "Oh, look, some lemon tea."

Tim: Somebody has to clean those cups.

Eric: Although, a toilet is like a big cup. A cup with a lid.

[Tim and Eric Awesome Tour at T.T. the Bear's Place, Mon. 4.21. 6:45pm & 10pm/ 18+/ $15. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 617.492.2327. ttthebears.com]