My first thought was "I must be dressed well." I performed at a comedy club in New York and afterwards these guys asked me where this gay club is. I just feel that my gay friends are pickier than my female friends. I'm weirdly more complimented if a gay man on Twitter says I'm attractive. People end up pushing through that and doing what they want to do. I think gays and nerds have a lot in common you may have had struggles growing up because you didn't fit in with the collective mass. Did you say, "I wish I was cool enough to be gay?" I guess someone asked you about your sexual orientation.ĬH: Oh, yeah I get that all the time. WCT: I want to ask you about a quote you said.
So I have to read that and Song of Fire and Ice. Some days I want to enjoy things like the average consumer but I don't have the time. I love Steve Jobs but, unfortunately, I have to work sometimes I work 15 hours a day. Every sector he touched a very clear vision there was computing, music distribution, mobile technology. I'll say Bill Murray, Tesla and… I always wanted to get Steve Jobs on my podcast before he died. I would have to ask him what's true and what's not.ĬH: Maybe I shouldn't put Jesus there. WCT: I have a hypothetical: If you could host any three people, living or dead, on your own talk show, who would they be?ĬH: Bill Murray, maybe Nikola Tesla andI'm not a super-religious person, but it'd have to be Jesus Christ. It's now an Australian talk show that's based in L.A. And I love Rove he was like the Conan of Australia and then for a while. Jim was fun he's a theater guy, you knowa real actor. It was surreal to be there, but it was really fun. That was just surreal to see.ĬH: That was Rove McManus' show.
WCT: By the way, I saw (on YouTube) you, Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory and the singer Pink sitting on a couch together. you can find other members of your tribe and connect with other people. When you think about it, you spend a lot of your young life trying to fit in you want to be an accepted member of the tribe. Leather (IML), and there's total acceptance there. There's an annual event here called International Mr. WCT: I think that's true of some demographics and almost any subculture. It's also the only large-scale sense of community that some people have. It's connects specifically about what you're into. I love that everyone is quite welcoming of each other.ĬH: I hope this isn't disrespectful in any way, but Comic-Con is like a nerd "coming-out." It's a safe zone where you can celebrate what you want without any fear or judgment. We're in a technocracy right now, and nerds control that. The nerds create so much of what rules our culture now: technology, video games, sci-fi, horror so many things that are a part of who we are as a species right now are because of nerds. WCT: I heard you talking recently about how you feel nerds have the power nowand it's so true.ĬH: Oh, yeah. I don't know what I would've done if I had been born in an earlier period. I grew up during the computer/video-game revolution, so I was the perfect age. WCT: When did you first embrace your nerdism?ĬH: Well, it embraced me when I was a kid, and that was it I was in for life. I love bowling, so we have a bowling show. We even have a show with Neil Patrick Harris and puppets.
At first, it was a natural extension of the podcast (at and then we created our own video content.
They don't tell us how to run it creatively they just provide the platform. We basically created a YouTube channel earlier this year as part of an initiative YouTube created original content. To start things off, could you talk a bit about the Nerdist Channel.Ĭhris Hardwick: Sure. The contributing writer for Wired magazine even has a critical role on the YouTube's Nerdist Channel.īefore coming to Chicago for some stand-up gigs at Zanies, he chatted with Windy City Times about nerdism, gay men and censorship, among other things. This article shared 5336 times since Tue Dec 4, 2012Ĭhris Hardwick is many things: actor, stand-up comedian, musician, podcasterand self-confessed nerd.