Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that.… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work;… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
The difference being that a nerd would wear a D&D shirt because he loves D&D while a hipster would wear a D&D shirt because… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I would say that nerds, as a rule, are much more sexually active than the average person. There's a lot of anxiety and stress… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to social media,… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
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, and people… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
A lot of people complain in the year 2003 that it's not the world of tomorrow as foreseen in the 1950s. 'Where are the… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
