Top 162 Quotes & Sayings by Chris Hardwick
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.
The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.
Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.
You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.
If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.
I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.
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. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear.
My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.
My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things.
The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.
Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.
Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.
I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.
Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.
For podcasters, people are just being themselves in a public fashion. So when someone is attacking a podcast, they're really attacking the person, because the person is the podcast. So I think that's why podcasters take it to heart. It's a very personal form of media, probably the most personal form of media.
American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.
What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.
I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.
I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.
We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.
Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.
Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.
When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.
The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.
I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.
In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.
I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.
I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.
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.
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.
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.
Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff.
Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.
Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and then other people start attacking them, and then they attack back.
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.
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.
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.
A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.
Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.
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 sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.
It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was.
Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?
I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.
Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.
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