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Chris Hardwick
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American stand-up comedian, actor, television host, writer, producer, podcaster, and musician
OverviewAI-generated
Chris Hardwick, born Christopher Ryan Hardwick on November 23, 1971, in Louisville, Kentucky, is an American stand-up comedian, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is a citizen of the United States and of Italian American ethnicity. Hardwick attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and began his professional work period in 1991. He is married to Lydia Hearst-Shaw and practices Buddhism.
His written works include *The Nerdist Way* and *The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)*, as well as *ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY the Ultimate Guide to the Walking Dead*. He is associated with the Nerdist website and has been tagged with terms such as podcast, comedy, and stand-up comedy.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY the Ultimate Guide to the Walking Dead
- The Nerdist Way
- The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Christopher Ryan "Chris" Hardwick (born November 23, 1971) is an American actor, television personality, writer, musician, and comedian.
Known for
- Up for Auction — Self - Host2024
- Attack of the Doc! — Self2023
- Krapopolis — (voice)2023
- Halloween in Hollywood — Self - Host2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self2022
- Barmageddon — Self - Contestant2022
- A Very Special G4 Holiday Reunion Special — Self2020
- Making Fun: The Story of Funko — Self2018
- Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity — Self2018
- Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1971
Discography
- Mandroid2013
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 23,976
- Total plays
- 211,113
Tags
AKA the Nerdist. American actor, television personality, writer, blogger and comedian. http://www.nerdist.com/ <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Hardwick">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,043x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,614x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,964x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,783x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,272x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Christopher Ryan Hardwick , ( 1971-11-23 ) November 23, 1971 (age 54) , Louisville, Kentucky , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Occupations
- Comedian actor television host podcast host writer producer
- Spouse
- Lydia Hearst ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2016 )
- Years active
- 1991–present
- Medium
- Stand-up podcast television film
- Genres
- Observational comedy blue comedy sarcasm musical comedy self-deprecation satire
- Subjects
- American culture American politics human behavior pop culture current events
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Christopher Ryan Hardwick (born November 23, 1971) is an American comedian, actor, television and podcast host, writer, and producer. He hosted Talking Dead, an hourlong aftershow on AMC affiliated with the network's zombie drama series The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, as well as Talking with Chris Hardwick, a show in which Hardwick interviews prominent pop culture figures, and The Wall, a plinko-inspired gameshow on NBC. Hardwick created Nerdist Industries, operator of the Nerdist Podcast Network and home of his podcast The Nerdist Podcast, which later left the network and was renamed to ID10T with Chris Hardwick. His podcast had broadcast 1,000 episodes as of December 2019.
From 2011, he hosted the BBC America Britcom block Ministry of Laughs. From 2013 to 2017, he hosted @midnight with Chris Hardwick, a nightly comedy-game show series on Comedy Central. In 2013, he hosted Talking Bad, a live half-hour talk show on AMC following the final eight episodes of Breaking Bad. From 2016, he hosted Talking Saul for the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. He is also known for performing with Mike Phirman in the musical comedy duo Hard 'n Phirm, as well as hosting Singled Out, Wired Science, and Web Soup, the voice of Glowface on The X's, the voice of Otis the Cow in Back at the Barnyard, and the voice of Craig the Snake in Sanjay and Craig.
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