Chris Hardwick Quotes

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Chris Hardwick

Profession : Comedian

Birth : November 23, 1971

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.

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Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

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With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

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Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

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Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

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Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

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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.

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

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The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

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