A biography for Chris Hardwickhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.”
“I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.”
“You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.”
“Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.”
“We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.”