Chris Hardwick Quotes

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Chris Hardwick

Profession : Comedian

Birth : November 23, 1971

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.

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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.

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

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

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A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

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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.

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The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

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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.

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

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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.

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You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.

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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.

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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.

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Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

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I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

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

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

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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.

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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

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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.

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