Isn't the background music "666"? Can someone confirm?

Crazy Taxi = crazy delicious.

I thought it was pretty funny, though I was hoping for some hot tazer action.

@TOMHUNG

Close...its by Klubbheads. Called Kickin' Hard.

Wikipedia isn't providing the goods. How'd he leave the planet?

I see. He was such an a-hole that he forced the conference to change their press access policy from something that was probably open and respectful to something that I'm sure was more annoying, both for the conference and the attendees.

We had a guy like him in high school who was constantly high on acid. He always thought he was totally hilarious, but was completely and utterly annoying. But, now I realize that when he stood up on his desk and jumped on top of the other kids in the middle of history class, he wasn't just a f##king nimrod, he was actually a "comedy terrorist".

Tim seems like a real sweetheart. I'm certainly sorry he's dead.

you promised dry-humping

tease

This is what happened...
http://craptv.com/?p=23

look that was just sad. My ten year old brother probably would have liked it....until he grew up. Really does this actually count as art or comedy? It is sad that the guy is dead but that doesn't turn that crap into anything other than crap.

That guy was hillarious. Didn't realize when I began watching that it was a tribute. Sad to think that a person with that much life is dead.

@Pyros, +1.

@ others who've lobbed insults at the guy -- let's please be mindful of the fact that he is recently deceased.

Arguing in a comments thread over what constitutes comedy is going to be about as fruitful as a thread about whether furries are creepy or sexy, or whether George Bush deserves to be president. Someone should just call someone else a nazi here, and we'll consider it a wrap.

I didn't know "Timmy" personally, but I think he was very talented. The particular kind of confrontational, hyperbolic schtick he did is not without precedent, and not without peer.

Sascha Baron Cohen didn't teabag taxis at the Convention Center (plz correct me if I missed it), but the stuff Timmy did with the Crap TV guys reminds me a little of stuff on the Ali G show -- only in the environment of pre-dotcom-crash Los Angeles, a time and place that kinda means something to me, personally. @Chiefcynic, actually, a lot of awesome comedy does involve some guy acting like a moron.

So, yeah, I think this is really fcking funny, and the story of how this very charismatic and smart young man came to pass away is also tied in to that internet history, and is extremely sad.

Anyway, that's part of why I thought it would be a good thing to share on BBtv. The circumstances that led to this material being produced, all of the crazy money flying around at E3, the hubris, the hype, the huge parties, the big payout promises -- this clip captures all of that perfectly.

His schtick was insane, the environment around him more so.

Xeni's a nicer person than I am.

As I've said on previous occasions, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum, guys, and I've got the ammo to back it up." Trash the dead, comment disappears.

If you don't especially fancy the guy's style of humor, you have two options. One is to not mention it. The other is to politely explain why. The explanation is necessary. So is the politeness.

I'm not being accused of lobbing an insult, I hope. I don't know how what I had written could possibly be construed as disrespectul.

Pyros, you're not being accused of that. Xeni was applauding you.

@Pyros, no, "+1" meant "I agree with your sentiment." Thanks for being civil.

Thanks for seep-sixing my inaugural comment. I feel a part of the community already! Mine was a quite tame observation that the video was not particularly funny. I'm sorry the guy passed, but if this was posted as a tribute, then say so and, please, tell us the circumstances of how someone so young unfortunately left the earth before his time. But...frankly, I didn't see the part about his passing because it was the second-to-last line. So, it was clearly presented as something to tickle our collective funny bone. I responded that it didn't work for me and down goes the comment. Lame.

@#7 MRFITZ

I think Ms. Pacman's frottage burn would agree with me that there was no bait and switch.

I see. I'm not very smart so sometimes these things need to be explained to me.

@albedo LOL you said "frottage burn" and "Ms Pac Man" in the same sentence.

Could someone explain acceptable parameters for discussion of this particular post so I can have one that lasts more than five minutes? Certainly other people's seem to be vanishing like sugar under Ms. Hayden's vigorous censorship teaspoon...

I don't know why we're supposed to laugh a man with a serious case of manic-depression who tragically committed suicide this year.

It's all fun and games when folks like Tim run around for our amusement, but the crippling depression that ultimately follows is just too big a price to pay.

"Sadly he got sucked into a system of institutions that he could never shake himself free from."

I don't want to sound like an idiot but what kind of institutions are they referring to?

E3 is one big advertisement, it's nice to see some people messing it up...

(Seriously, is there any other art form so controlled by huge corporations as video-games?? It's like a film industry with only shoot-em-up blockbusters.)

Psydney, if your post went away, it wasn't polite enough. This is not rocket science.

Will Heydt-Minor, Tim Woodsman wasn't manic-depressive for our amusement. If in his manic phase he managed to make something worth watching, that's his art, not our exploitation. We can better show our respect for him by recognizing him as an artist and an individual, rather than by dismissing his work as the symptom of a disease.

Lots of people are manic-depressive. Few of them are funny, and only Tim Woodsman was funny in exactly that way.

Folks, haven't you been around long enough to know that antagonising the moderators is a waste of everyone's time and will usually end with a ban?

Personally i don't care what gets deleted, as this isn't my site...and i really doubt other readers are interested, so don't waste energy getting upset over this.
Attachment leads to suffering. In this case, attachment to the ever-so-important commentary that got deleted before the Whole Wide World could gasp at its immense significance .

Xeni Jardin wrote
Someone should just call someone else a nazi here, and we'll consider it a wrap.

Xeni, you're a nazi.

(good video, btw!)

sorry 4 da doble post. can't see how to delete it...

The point is that one would expect the moderators of a site that makes such a vocal stand against censorship to have a light rather than a heavy touch when it comes to deleting posts, which is not what I was seeing. And I'm not talking about myself, since nothing of mine was deleted, but about general principles.

Attachment may lead to suffering, but purging ideas leads to tyranny - and the ideas don't have to be world-shaking to be of value to the people who expressed them. People are upset, I think, because they feel they've been treated unfairly and disrespectfully, and I'm not sure I disagree with them. That seems worthy of discussion.

bro definitely would have been tased if this happened today.

Why do we show respect for the recently dead? In this case, because Xeni asked for it.

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