Chris Hardwick
Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.Collection: Creative
I've seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show you how pervasive this stuff has become in our culture. It really is an ideology that you can subscribe to now.Collection: Art
I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.Collection: Hate
There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.Collection: Government
The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.Collection: Technology
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.Collection: Growing Up
I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.Collection: Writing
I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you connect with one of your parents and you realize, 'Oh yeah, we had all that stuff, too.' You're not that original. I mean, in a good way, because it makes you feel like you're connected and a part of the world and not an island.Collection: Mean
We're gonna have fun, god***it!Collection: Fun
Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.Collection: Information
If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work... It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on.Collection: Fall
When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.Collection: Jobs
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 driving, waiting in line.Collection: Writing
I really don't have time "to Twitter," it's not something that should grab your day. That's a big misconception, actually, about the whole service. You don't go out of your way to tweet, you just post when you've got something. Hopefully, not while you're driving. It complements your life more than takes over your life.Collection: Hopefully Not
My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.Collection: Basketball
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 you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.Collection: Asking
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.Collection: Growing Up
I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.Collection: Fun
We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to social media, I don't necessarily want to be a political show. I want it to cover everything, everything in our culture through social media, politics, pop culture, entertainment, science, everything.Collection: Political
Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought me Steve Martin records and let me watch R-rated comedies long before they probably should have.Collection: Should Have
I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.Collection: Texas
When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things.Collection: Parent
I think some of what makes it a good podcast is that it's organic. It doesn't feel forced. If we can say anything about ours, it's that we're not faking it at all. We're genuinely interested in the people that we're talking to.Collection: Thinking
I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.Collection: Kids
I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."Collection: Thinking
Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.Collection: Band
When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.Collection: School
Stand up straight. If you stand up straight, you will instantly feel better about yourself, and you will project a better image to the world, one that says you don't feel like you have to be hunched over and closed off.Collection: Feel Better
There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.Collection: Climbing
We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.Collection: Mean
Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.Collection: Lying
Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?Collection: Thinking
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.Collection: Self
Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.Collection: Long Ago
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 are gonna listen to this." It's an odd thing, but it's really cool.Collection: Believe
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 nudity, a bit of ego nudity when you expose your numbers, I guess because someone's are higher or someone's are lower. I've never really talked about the numbers with anyone, so maybe I'm not supposed to.Collection: Numbers
You can't touch the strippers. Why are you paying to not touch someone? That is weird. How do you win in that situation? That is like walking into a deli, starving, and being like, 'Here's $300 - can I stare at the roast beef? Better yet, I'll sit down in this chair and you can mash it around my mouth and balls.Collection: Winning
Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.Collection: Bags
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 flying cars?' people say. 'Where are the robots who bring us blue drinks and warn us of danger?' Alright. We don't have those things, specifically, folks, but you know what we do have? Laser vaginal rejuvenation surgery.Collection: Flying Cars
As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.Collection: Talking
Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.Collection: Offended
I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.Collection: Thinking
As someone who's very nerd-minded, whenever I see a lot of cross-platform stuff when I get bonus material on either side, then it makes me want to dive deeper, sort of like tearing apart the different pieces of the pie.Collection: Pie
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 it's ridiculous that he is wearing a D&D shirt.Collection: Hipster
I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.Collection: People
If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.Collection: Success
Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.Collection: Writing
Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.Collection: Mom
Stand-up for me is usually a weekend thing. I go out of town and just do it.Collection: Weekend