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Chris Hardwick

(1971) Stand-up Comedian United States

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Chris Hardwick talks about nerds and how they often love things like D&D shirts for the hobby, not as a joke. He remembers watching old BBC shows as a treasure chest of ideas. He also says that laughing on a horror movie set feels magical, and that philosophy can shake up a comedian’s thinking.

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Chris Hardwick is a stand-up comedian from the United States, best known for ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY the Ultimate Guide to the Walking Dead.

Quick Facts About Chris Hardwick

Born: November 23, 1971
Nationality: United States
Profession: Stand-up Comedian
Notable works: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY the Ultimate Guide to the Walking Dead
Spouse: Lydia Hearst-Shaw

About Chris Hardwick

Talking Dead was an hour‑long aftershow on AMC linked to the zombie series The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead. In Talking with Chris Hardwick he interviewed notable pop‑culture personalities. The Wall, aired on NBC, was a plinko‑style game show. The Nerdist Podcast later left Nerdist Industries and was renamed ID10T with Chris Hardwick, reaching 1,000 episodes by December 2019.

Quotes by Chris Hardwick

My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.

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Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

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Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

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Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

Comedy

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Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

Anxiety

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Alcohol is like pouring smiles on your brain.

Alcohol

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It's so much easier to give advice than to take it.

Advice

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The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

Lifeblood

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Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

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The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

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I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.

Capitalistic

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The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

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If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

Acting

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I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come…

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Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

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The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

Creative

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Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of…

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Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before…

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Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they…

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There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds…

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For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that…

Creating

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We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which…

Audience

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When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we…

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Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that…

Animal

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For podcasters, people are just being themselves in a public fashion. So when someone is attacking a podcast, they're really attacking the…

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When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club,…

Arcades

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If you're able to build from your falls you'll be unstoppable and damn near fearless. You see, every time you fall down…

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I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot…

Bowlers

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Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before…

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All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was…

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If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work... It's about…

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You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a…

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Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

Christmas

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A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

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I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

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Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

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We're gonna have fun, god***it!

Fun

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Stand-up for me is usually a weekend thing. I go out of town and just do it.

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Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the…

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Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

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Chris Hardwick by topic

Nerd (31) People (30) Thinking (18) Comedy (17) Time (15) Life (12) Humor (12) Nerds (11) World (10)