Comedian Tim Heidecker made his debut as host and creative director of the new InfoWars on May 1.
Though Alex Jones filed an emergency motion to stop the relaunch of Infowars in a Texas court, the livestream still occurred — and Heidecker went full force into an impression of the conspiracy theorist who originally created the platform.
“Lot of turmoil the past couple days on our road to total victory. We have just won a major battle, folks,” Heidecker said. “Alex and his gang of liars and scoundrels have been cast out into the street, they have lost InfoWars, InfoWars.com and their various platforms.”
“They have been cast out, ladies and gentlemen, and make no mistake, we will be the new InfoWars,” he added. “Now we got to go through the machinations of the court, we’ve had some setbacks over past couple days, but that is not stopping us, that is not tempering our resolve. Over the next couple days or weeks, you will see much more coming out of this.”
The livestream featured a lot of Heidecker as Jones comedy, with references to conspiracy theories as well as a call from “President Donald Trump” who congratulated him on being in charge of InfoWars now.
Though Infowars is now owned by satirical comedy website TheOnion.com, there’s still a bit of a legal battle occurring to ensure that it can continue. Back in 2022, a court ordered that Jones had to pay $1.4 billion to the families of the children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting — an event that he falsely claimed was a hoax. To pay the debt, the parent company of Infowars was forced to sell its assets.
The Onion, who’s been trying to get its hands on Infowars for years, had its bid to buy the site blocked in 2024; but its parent company, Global Tetrahedron ended up reaching a potential six-month deal to lease the website from a court-appointed administrator for $81,000 per month —with the option for it to be renewed. Global Tetrahedron’s Ben Collins has been open about The Onion’s plan to buy the entirety of the website’s assets.
On Apr. 30, a Texas judge temporarily halted the proposed deal. A new hearing about the matter is set to occur on May 28.
While this whole fiasco is happening, Heidecker has revealed more about what his role as the host and creative director of Infowars will be. It’s basically just trolling Jones. “I’m not somebody that likes to beat a joke into the ground, but I think for a little while it’s going to be fun to play with [Jones] and just keep reminding people of what an oaf he is, what a clown he is, and not be very nice about it,” Heidecker said. “He did something truly, truly awful. It’s hard to really state how destructive he’s been here in this country.”
