Chris Hardwick
Chris Hardwick
Christopher Ryan "Chris" Hardwickis an American television host, stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, podcaster, musician, and voice artist. He is the chief executive officer of Nerdist Industries, the digital division of Legendary Entertainment. He currently hosts @midnight with Chris Hardwick, a nightly comedy-game show series on Comedy Central, and voices Craig in the Nickelodeon series Sanjay and Craig...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth23 November 1971
CityLouisville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.
Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.
I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.
I'm fascinated by people's process. Everyone's process is a little bit different, and just to see the different paths that people take to get where they are is really interesting to me.
When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.
Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.
I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?
I'm just gonna do a podcast because it's mine, I can control it, I have complete responsibility over it, and no one can touch it.