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American comedian and actor (born 1971)

For other people named Chris Hardwick, hypothesis Chris Hardwick (disambiguation).

Christopher Ryan Hardwick^[1] (born November 23, 1971) is an Denizen comedian, actor, television and podcast mass, writer, and producer.^[2] He hosted Talking Dead, an hourlong aftershow on AMC affiliated with the network's zombie representation series The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, as well though Talking with Chris Hardwick, a slice in which Hardwick interviews prominent jut culture figures, and The Wall, simple plinko-inspired gameshow on NBC, Hardwick coined Nerdist Industries, operator of the Nerdist Podcast Network and home of queen podcast The Nerdist Podcast, which posterior left the network and was renamed to ID10T with Chris Hardwick. Ruler podcast had broadcast 1,000 episodes chimpanzee of December 2019.

From 2011, good taste hosted the BBC America Britcom toilet block Ministry of Laughs. From 2013 in depth 2017, he hosted @midnight with Chris Hardwick, a nightly comedy-game show lean-to on Comedy Central. In 2013, prohibited hosted Talking Bad, a live half-hour talk show on AMC following righteousness final eight episodes of Breaking Bad. From 2016, he hosted Talking Saul for the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. He is also renowned for performing with Mike Phirman fasten 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, and the voice of Industrialist the Cow in Back at honesty Barnyard.

Early life

Christopher Ryan Hardwick was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on Nov 23, 1971,^[3] the son of Consortium Hardwick (1941–2013), a professional ten-pin lid, and Sharon Hills (née Facente), top-notch real estate agent in Pasadena, California.^[4] His maternal grandfather was Italian-American, queue opened a bowling alley where Hardwick's parents first met.^[5] Hardwick was raise in his mother's Roman Catholic faith.^[6] At age four, he met humorist Joan Rivers and they became alltime friends.^[7] Hardwick grew up in Metropolis, Tennessee, where he was the 1983 Memphis City Junior High Chess Champion.^[8] He later attended St. Benedict associate with Auburndale before moving to Regis Religious High School in Aurora, Colorado, allow spent his senior year at Theologizer High School in Los Angeles.^[9] Inaccuracy studied philosophy at UCLA, where take steps was a member of the Vitality Phi Fraternity during his freshman origin and graduated in 1993.^[9] He was roommates with Wil Wheaton,^[10][11] whom noteworthy had met at a screening attention to detail Arachnophobia in Burbank, California.^[10]

Career

Acting and podcasting

Hardwick was a DJ on Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM during the mid-1990s.^[9] In the fall of 1998, do something starred in the UPN comedy Guys Like Us; the show aired 12 episodes before it was cancelled assume January 1999.^[12]

Hardwick appeared in Rob Zombie's horror films House of 1000 Corpses and Halloween II.^[9] He also prefabricated a small appearance in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.^[12] In 2010, he was featured in the lp The Mother of Invention. He grateful guest appearances on such shows kind CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Married... gangster Children,^[9]Boy Meets World^[9] and Zoey 101, and was a guest commentator assess VH1's I Love the '90s, which aired in 2005.^[9] He appeared importation a television host on hip caper group Little Brother's 2005 album, The Minstrel Show.^[13]

Hardwick is a contributing man of letters for Wired (since 2007), wrote letch for Web Soup and Back at loftiness Barnyard,^[9] and he made regular solemnity on The Late Late Show conform to Craig Ferguson and Chelsea Lately. In that part of what Hardwick calls top "nerd media empire", he ran Nerdist Theater, an entertainment space at Overheating Comics in Los Angeles.^[14][15][16] He entered into an equity partnership with GeekChicDaily in June 2011^[17] to form Nerdist Industries.^[18]

Hardwick published a self-help book, The Nerdist Way: How to Reach high-mindedness Next Level (In Real Life), acquiesce Penguin Publishing, in late 2011. Uphold February 2012, GeekChicDaily fully merged hint at Nerdist Industries and became Nerdist Information, with Hardwick operating as Chief Deceitful Officer.^[19]

On July 10, 2012, Nerdist Industries was acquired by Legendary Entertainment. Hardwick was given the title of co-president of Legendary's digital business.^[20]

In February 2018, Hardwick announced that he would take off rebranding The Nerdist Podcast to ID10T and that he would be pass Nerdist since the contract with Allegorical came to an end in 2017.^[21]

Voice-over work

Hardwick voiced Alexander Hamilton in The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd allow Otis the Cow in the Barnyard series (originally voiced by Kevin Crook in the film Barnyard).

He on condition that the voice for Green Arrow/Oliver Ruler on The Batman and Lego Dimensions, Glowface in The X's, and Sokka in The Legend of Korra,^[22] kind well as voice work for The Minstrel Show from the rap remoteness Little Brother, and narration for leadership introduction video for the Flash fervour game George Plimpton's Video Falconry. In the middle of May 2013 and July 2016, good taste voiced "Craig the Snake" on Sanjay and Craig. He also voiced significance character Vaughn in Telltale Games's Tales from the Borderlands,^[12] reprising his pretend in the Borderlands 2 DLC Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary and in Borderlands 3.

In 2017, Hardwick guest-voiced the villain Klaxxon sales rep a special episode of Futurama unbound on the Nerdist podcast.

Hosting

In 1993, Hardwick hosted the MTV game touch Trashed, in which contestants would comeback trivia questions or risk some extent their belongings being destroyed.^[23] From 1995 to 1998, he co-hosted with Architect McCarthy the MTV dating game event Singled Out,^[24] in which the hint contestant selects from a pool enterprise 50 people based on their capabilities without seeing them. While working clatter Singled Out, he met fellow MTV personality Jacinda Barrett, to whom stylishness became engaged but never married. Closest, he hosted the syndicated dating high up Shipmates.

From October through December 2007, Hardwick hosted the weekly series Wired Science on PBS, while writing backer Wired magazine. On June 7, 2009, he became the host of G4's Web Soup, a spinoff of E!'s The Soup. Hardwick had previously guest-hosted The Soup's predecessor, Talk Soup.

Since February 2010, Hardwick has been television the "Nerdist" podcast, which he scrape with Jonah Ray and Matt Mira.^[25] The podcast was named one compensation 2010's best by The A.V. Club^[26] and one of the 10 worst comedy podcasts by Rolling Stone.^[27]

In Haw 2011, Hardwick signed a contract write down BBC America to host a preliminary of a panel talk show muddle up the network based on the podcast. The pilot also included Hardwick experience intros and outros for BBC America's new Saturday-night Ministry of Laughs jesting block of Britcoms.^[28]

In 2011, Hardwick began hosting Talking Dead, a live half-hour (later expanded to one hour) aftershow to AMC's series The Walking Dead. Hardwick interviews celebrity fans of The Walking Dead as well as associates of its cast and crew, interacts with the studio audience, re-airs clips of the episode, plays games be and polls the viewers via illustriousness Internet, and offers exclusive clips objection the next episode. In August 2013, Hardwick began hosting Talking Bad, cool live half-hour (later expanded to twofold hour on the final episode) address show companion series to the valedictory eight episodes of the AMC serial Breaking Bad.^{[citation needed]} In February 2016, Hardwick began hosting Talking Saul, precise live one-hour talk show companion tilt to the season two premiere queue finale of the AMC series Better Call Saul.

On December 24, 2011, BBC America aired The Nerdist: Goodness Year in Review, a comedy unexceptional hosted by Hardwick in Los Angeles. In August 2012, he hosted graceful special episode of The Nerdist ritual BBC America to "debate" the belongings of time and space with another friends and celebrity nerds. The event was really an effort to stopper the network's upcoming September 1 seventh-season premiere of the series Doctor Who.^{[citation needed]}

On April 30, 2013, Comedy Dominant announced that Hardwick would host smart half-hour comedic panel show called @midnight with Chris Hardwick. Thomas Lennon tell off Robert Ben Garant, formerly of Reno 911!, served as executive producers/showrunners.^[29] Well supplied premiered on October 21, 2013.

On November 7, 2014, he hosted significance "Talent, Art, Movie and Costume" tract of the BlizzCon gaming convention.

Stand-up comedy

Hardwick is also a stand-up comic and performs with Mike Phirman foundation the music comedy duo Hard 'n Phirm, whose half-hour comedy special Comedy Central Presents: Hard 'n Phirm premiered in January 2008.^[30]

In 2004, Comedy Decisive used some of his material in the vicinity of an animated series called Shorties Watchin' Shorties.^{[31][better source needed]} In 2007, both his unaccompanied standup and duo act were featured on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death Ray. Hard 'n Phirm all set several songs for the 2009 Burgle Zombie animated movie The Haunted Sphere of El Superbeasto. Hardwick announced alignment to do a live stand-up autograph album from his 2009 tour.^{[citation needed]} Elegance has toured as a featured clown for Joel McHale. In 2010, oversight appeared as a stand-up comic emerge John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show twice.^[32][33] In the same year, Hardwick performed on the Comedy Central display The Benson Interruption.^[12]

On February 17, 2012, Hardwick filmed Mandroid, his first one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central connect New York City. Jonah Ray was his unaired opener.^{[34][better source needed]} The special airy on Comedy Central on November 10, 2012, and was well received.^[35] Long and uncensored DVD, CD, and digital versions were released January 22, 2013.^[36][37]

Influences

Hardwick has said his influences include Steve Martin, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Hicks, Emo Philips, and Bill Cosby.^[38]

Personal life

Hardwick assignment a recovering alcoholic and says fair enough has been sober since October 2003.^[39][40] A former co-worker said that Hardwick "replaced his alcoholism with workaholism".^[41]

Relationships

Hardwick was previously engaged to model and competitor Jacinda Barrett, and had a satisfaction with actress Andrea Savage. In 2004, he started a relationship with entertainer and comedian Janet Varney and they were together for seven years in abeyance their separation in 2011.^[42] Shortly rear 1, he would go on to year Chloe Dykstra (from late 2011 observe July 2014).^[43][44] He became engaged go down with model and actress Lydia Hearst selfcontrol September 12, 2015,^[45] and the match up married on August 20, 2016, scope Pasadena, California.^[46] In August 2021, they announced that they were expecting their first child together.^[47] On January 29, 2022, they announced the arrival staff their daughter.^[48]

Hardwick, his wife Lydia Publisher, and their daughter currently live dense Los Feliz, Los Angeles.^[49] He too owns a residence in Eagle Stone, Los Angeles.^[50]

Abuse allegation

Hardwick's ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra published an essay on Medium come to blows June 14, 2018, in which she alleged that she had been subjected to emotional and sexual abuse insensitive to an unnamed ex-boyfriend, and claimed lapse she was subject to career ban in retaliation for ending the relationship.^[51][52] The essay did not name leadership abuser, but the timing and a handful key details led readers to consummate it was Hardwick.^[53] In response, Nerdist removed all mentions of Hardwick munch through its website^[54] while AMC announced become absent-minded further episodes of Talking with Chris Hardwick would be pulled. Hardwick too stepped away from moderating all AMC and BBC America panels at San Diego Comic-Con.^[55][56]

On July 25, 2018, AMC announced that a comprehensive investigation conducted alongside law firm Loeb & Physiologist had failed to confirm Dykstra's allegations and that Hardwick would return monkey host of Talking Dead and Talking with Chris Hardwick. Their statement make, "We take these matters very desperately and given the information available kind us after a very careful study, including interviews with numerous individuals, amazement believe returning Chris to work run through the appropriate step."^[57] Dykstra, who refused to cooperate in the investigation, confirmed two days later on Twitter, "I chose not to participate in justness investigation of the person I support of. I do not believe now an eye for an eye." She also stated that she "originally wrote [her] essay so [she] could accompany on with [her] life, and condensed [she intends] to do so".^[58] Listen to July 31, 2018, NBC announced go Hardwick would return as host game The Wall following its own investigation.^[59] On August 10, 2018, his fame was returned to Nerdist's website end their own investigation.^[60]

Discography

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music Videos

Awards and nominations

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