Chris Hardwick

“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.”

“Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.”

“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.”

“Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.”

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

“The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.”

“Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.”

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

“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.”

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

“The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.”

“In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That's why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: 'May the Force be with you.'”

“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've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.”

“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.”

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