Tim Henson

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Timothy James Henson (born August 1, 1980) is the host of Distorted View Daily, an adult comedy podcast that focuses on bizarre news stories and brief comedic sketches and songs. Henson is a full-time podcaster based in Columbus, Ohio.

Henson is unique among podcasters in that he is completely supported by subscribers. He has no sponsors and no source of income beyond his podcast. While his podcast has been pirated and rebroadcast in other venues^[1], he has given no indication he has ever been paid for these broadcasts. Henson has attributed his current lack of sponsors to his refusal to censor the program.

Henson began creating Web-based comedy in 1996, and established Distorted View in 2000. Henson has distributed the show through a variety of media, including telephony company Tellme^[2], various Internet radio stations, and now-defunct MP3 download service MP3NewsBreak.^[3] In 2005 and 2006, Henson won The Podcast Awards's Best Comedy Podcast Award for Distorted View. Henson also received a fan nomination for a Weblog Award in 2005.^[4] In 2005, the Columbus Dispatch profiled Henson^[5] on the occasion of his first Podcasting award. The article was written when Henson still had a "day job" and was not yet supporting himself entirely on proceeds from Distorted View subscribers. Henson has since won the second annual Podcast Awards in the comedy category.