# Doug Lussenhop
**Doug Lussenhop**, known on stage as **DJ Douggpound**, is an American comedy editor, writer, and performer whose glitch-heavy, loop-based editing style helped define the look of [Tim Heidecker](https://www.edgepedia.org/tim-heidecker) and [Eric Wareheim](https://www.edgepedia.org/eric-wareheim)'s shows, including *Tom Goes to the Mayor* and *[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!](https://www.edgepedia.org/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job)*, and who later edited *Portlandia* and *The Eric Andre Show*.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve) • [2](https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/douggpound)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Origin | From Darien, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago; lived in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in 2003[3](https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/douggpound) |
| Break | Answered a Craigslist ad for an intern on Tim and Eric's first Adult Swim show, *Tom Goes to the Mayor*; hired after about four months[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve) |
| Signature contribution | Created the B'owl, a bat-owl hybrid character on *Awesome Show*; Tim and Eric turned it into a throwaway toy[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve) |
| Later editing | First three seasons of *Portlandia*; writer and editor on *The Eric Andre Show*, which he worked on for all six seasons[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve) • [4](https://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-doug-lussenhop/) |
| Performing name | DJ Douggpound, a "joke DJ" act begun around 2006, used to open for Tim and Eric on tour[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve) |
| Podcasts | Was one third of *The Champs* with Moshe Kasher and Neal Brennan; hosts *The Poundcast*; co-hosts *Office Hours with Tim Heidecker*[5](https://www.earwolf.com/person/dj-douggpound/) • [4](https://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-doug-lussenhop/) |
## Early work in Chicago
Lussenhop's editing style took shape before television. After college he lived at an art gallery in Chicago, screening his own videos, which he built from re-edited found footage; he recorded [Fox News](https://www.edgepedia.org/fox-news) broadcasts and turned the network's theme song into a beat, working roughly from 1999 to 2002.[2](https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/douggpound) During that period he helped his friend Eric Fensler edit the first four of the Fensler G.I. Joe public service announcement parodies, which were put online by a friend at Heaven Gallery before YouTube existed, crashed the gallery's server with traffic, and drew a cease-and-desist letter from Hasbro.[2](https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/douggpound)
Earlier still, after high school, he ran a cable-access show in the early 1990s made of edited-together found footage and friends' sketches, and worked as a wedding videographer, taking the work camera home at night to make his show. He edited tape-to-tape before nonlinear software existed, which he later credited with making him more deliberate as an editor.[2](https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/douggpound) Before comedy, he also transferred private Super 8 films to video and edited video news releases, advertisements disguised as news stories, for a Chicago post-production house.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve) • [6](https://bestofama.com/amas/1whj8d)
## Tim and Eric
After moving to Los Angeles in 2003, his first job was editing clips at Playboy.com. When his boss warned him the department might not last, he answered a [Craigslist](https://www.edgepedia.org/craigslist) ad for an intern on a comedy show, which turned out to be *Tom Goes to the Mayor* on [Adult Swim](https://www.edgepedia.org/adult-swim).[3](https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/douggpound) As an intern he filmed the production process and cut a behind-the-scenes video using the glitch effects and off-kilter cuts he had been developing; Adult Swim aired it as the episode "A Look Behind The Scenes" in 2005, and he was hired as the show's editor after about four months.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve)
**Editing as comedy.** On *Tom Goes to the Mayor*, a mostly animated show with live-action segments, he began shaping jokes in the cutting room, cutting punchlines short, letting awkward moments roll too long, and adding sound effects. Heidecker and Wareheim encouraged him: "Make it as weird as you want," and the show's effects, stuttering, skipping, and looping footage, worked their way into its visual identity.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve) • [2](https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/douggpound) When *Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!* began, he continued as editor and earned a writing credit, pitching ideas at season-wide group writing days in categories such as fake commercials, wraparound concepts, and mood pieces.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve)
The editors at Tim and Eric's production company, Abso Lutely, would emulate the style he and Jonathan Krisel forged, and his techniques appeared across other projects: he describes taking a failing *Awesome Show* sketch of the duo destroying a set, looping the destruction footage, and building a rhythm over it in [GarageBand](https://www.edgepedia.org/garageband), turning discarded material into a mood piece.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve) He also received additional editing credit on *Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie* (2012).[7](https://shotonwhat.com/tim-and-erics-billion-dollar-movie-2012)
## Beyond Tim and Eric
After *Awesome Show* ended, the style he helped create followed him as a constraint. He edited [Fred Armisen](https://www.edgepedia.org/fred-armisen) and [Carrie Brownstein](https://www.edgepedia.org/carrie-brownstein)'s web series *Thunder Ant* and cut the reel the pair used to pitch what became *Portlandia* to IFC, then edited the show's first three seasons, which relied less on his fast-cut, repeated-line techniques as the series evolved.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve) He worked as writer and editor on *The Eric Andre Show* for all six of its seasons and toured with Eric Andre, and on *Portlandia*-style assignments he has said the recurring note became "this is too Tim and Eric."[4](https://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-doug-lussenhop/) • [1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve)
His own projects include the co-created web series *Pound House*, which Tim Heidecker called "the best show on the Internet," *2 Wet Crew*, a SuperDeluxe web series called *The Poundcast*, and the short *Story Pig*, which he edited and starred in.[4](https://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-doug-lussenhop/) • [2](https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/douggpound)
## DJ Douggpound and podcasts
Around 2006 he began performing live as DJ Douggpound, becoming Tim and Eric's opening act on tour, including a tour with [John C. Reilly](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-c-reilly). His stage act translates his editing into performance: he DJs, hard-cuts the beat, and tells deliberately corny jokes whose punchlines are sound bites from commercials and television shows, remixing the joke as part of the joke.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve)
In podcasting he was one third of *The Champs* alongside comedians [Moshe Kasher](https://www.edgepedia.org/moshe-kasher) and [Neal Brennan](https://www.edgepedia.org/neal-brennan), then started *The Poundcast* with comedian Brent Weinbach, and continues to co-host *Office Hours with Tim Heidecker* while doing standup. He also makes music; in 2025 he released two albums of jingles, each containing 50 songs.[5](https://www.earwolf.com/person/dj-douggpound/) • [4](https://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-doug-lussenhop/)
## References
1. [Joe Berkowitz, "How The Guy Who Helped Define Tim & Eric's Editing Style Has Edited His Career Ever Since," Fast Company (2015)](https://www.fastcompany.com/3043472/how-the-guy-who-helped-define-tim-erics-editing-style-has-edited-his-career-eve)
2. ["An Interview with Editor and Writer Doug Lussenhop," The Hundreds](https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/douggpound)
3. ["DJ Douggpound Talks Comedy, Skateboard Videos, and Rapping About CCS Pants," CCS (2022)](https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/douggpound)
4. ["Conversations with Doug Lussenhop," Voyage LA Magazine (2026)](https://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-doug-lussenhop/)
5. ["DJ Douggpound," Earwolf person page](https://www.earwolf.com/person/dj-douggpound/)
6. ["I'm Doug Lussenhop aka DJ Douggpound," 2014 Reddit AMA archive, BestofAMA](https://bestofama.com/amas/1whj8d)
7. ["Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) Technical Specifications," ShotOnWhat](https://shotonwhat.com/tim-and-erics-billion-dollar-movie-2012)
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