The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“It used to be the comics decided what they said, not the comic-book stores decided what they said!” — Neil Hamburger, adapting his decidedly “anti-comedy” set to the rules of “Set List,” the show that asks comedians to improvise stand-up based on what displays on screens behind them in front …
Chris Hardwick had himself one busy Comic-Con in San Diego this weekend, not just moderating panels that released tidbits on all of your favorite superhero and fantasy movie blockbusters for the coming year, but also making news of his own — AMC announced Sunday that Hardwick will host Talking Bad, …
Set List is an American creation that first scored a TV deal across the pond, but is finally finding its way back home with a webseries version that you can enjoy wherever you have Internet access. Episode highlights of the live shows began appearing earlier this week on the Nerdist …
Is the world ready for Mel Brooks to join the Twitter conversation? Ready or not, here comes @MelBrooks later today in an event coordinated for Comedy Central’s first-ever online #ComedyFest — that starts today and continues through May 3, 2013 — with the 2,000(minus 1,914)-year-old comedian in conversation with Carl …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Early ratings for Jimmy Kimmel’s first night of Jimmy Kimmel Live in the 11:35 p.m. start time placed him ahead of both Letterman and Leno? Yes and no. Kimmel pulled in 3.097 million viewers Tuesday night compared to 2.882 million for Letterman and …
BBC America announced Wednesday that it’s giving Chris Hardwick and his Nerdist colleagues a promotion — a full, regular season of hourlong episodes of The Nerdist comedy variety show for 2013. “As a huge fanboy of nerd culture stuff, we at the Nerdist Podcast gush about the things we love constantly, …
Chris Hardwick is the king of nerds. Well, maybe he’s the president. Is a collection of nerds a monarchy? Maybe he’s some kind of chancellor or prime minister. At any rate, Chris Hardwick is a nerd and a proud one at that. His latest special, Mandroid, thoroughly illustrates his obsessions, …
You’ve heard Jimmy Pardo be Never Not Funny for years now; for the past couple of years, as the warm-up comedian for Conan O’Brien’s television programs. You’ve been impressed with how much Pardo ad-libs on the fly. But what if he does so with the help of a team of …
Guess what, America? BBC America liked broadcasting Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist pilot so much they’ve ordered up more of it. Specifically, five additional TV specials: A one-hour Christmas Eve broadcast, plus four more (one hour, three half-hours) to air throughout 2012, “coinciding with big events for the channel,” as BBC America …
Usually, a press release or announcement late on a Friday is meant to sneak something sinister past the press and your attention. This is the opposite of that. YouTube announced last night that it’ll launch several brand-new channels full of original entertainment — as the company said: “These channels will …
