After a bankruptcy auction, a rejected sale and a year of legal wrangling, Tim Heidecker and Ben Collins are days away from a court hearing they hope will let The Onion finally take operational control of Infowars on a licensing basis — paying roughly $80,000 a month to keep the lights on, route money to the Sandy Hook families and lay the groundwork for a longer-term comedy platform built on top of Alex Jones’ wreckage.
Heidecker, the Tim and Eric and On Cinema co-creator who has been needling Jones for the better part of a decade, has been brought in as a creative overseer. Collins, the former NBC News disinformation reporter who now runs The Onion, is the deal’s public face.
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