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Chris Hardwick

(1971) Stand-up Comedian United States

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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.

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It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

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Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

Consumers

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I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?

Care

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I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.

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There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

Horror

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The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Day

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I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

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Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

Being

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You walk into a strip club with a wad of cash; they all flock around you. Strippers are just pigeons with tits.…

Bread

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Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing…

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I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved.…

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In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche…

Nerd

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Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some…

Comic

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American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work;…

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Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.

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Every time I finish a record, it's sort of feels like, "I can't believe that I'm hanging out and having a conversation,…

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You can't touch the strippers. Why are you paying to not touch someone? That is weird. How do you win in that…

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We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to…

Culture

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No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a…

Better person

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“NEVER forget that news shows and newspapers are run by companies that survive on ad sales driven by ratings, and the best…

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I don't know why people don't want to talk about their numbers. I guess in a sense, there's a bit of performer…

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“When you don’t take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the…

Philosophy of Mind

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In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better…

Astronomy

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I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's…

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I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of…

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I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

Communication

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Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

Bombs

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I honestly think hipsters eat with their assholes because they consume everything wrong.

Hipster

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I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

Communication

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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can…

Audience

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I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

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I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

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I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

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Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

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When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.

Comedian

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I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets…

Care

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Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

Generation

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Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

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I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.

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When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go…

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