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Christopher Ryan Hardwick[1] (born November 23, 1971) is an American comedian, actor, tv and podcast host, author, and producer.[2] He hosts Talking Dead, an hourlong aftershow on AMC affiliated with the community's zombie drama sequence The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, in addition to Talking with Chris Hardwick, a show wherein 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 house of his podcast The Nerdist Podcast, which later left the community and was renamed to ID10T with Chris Hardwick. His podcast has 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-recreation show collection on Comedy Central. In 2013, he hosted Talking Bad, a live half-hour talk show on AMC following the ultimate eight episodes of Breaking Bad. From 2016, he hosted Talking Saul for the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. He can be recognized for performing with Mike Phirman in the musical comedy duo Hard 'n Phirm, in addition to hosting Singled Out, Wired Science, and Web Soup, and the voice of Otis the Cow in Back at the Barnyard.

Early life[edit]

Christopher Ryan Hardwick was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 23, 1971,[3] the son of Billy Hardwick (1941-2013), knowledgeable ten-pin bowler, and Sharon Hills (née Facente), a real property agent in Pasadena, California.[4] His maternal grandfather was Italian-American, and opened a bowling alley the place Hardwick's parents first met.[5] Hardwick was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic religion.[6] At age 4, he met comedian Joan Rivers and so they grew to become lifelong mates.[7] Hardwick grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was the 1983 Memphis City Junior High Chess Champion.[8] He later attended St. Benedict at Auburndale before moving to Regis Jesuit High school in Aurora, Colorado, and spent his senior yr at Loyola Highschool in Los Angeles.[9] He studied philosophy at UCLA, the place he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity during his freshman 12 months and graduated in 1993.[9] He was roommates with Wil Wheaton,[10][11] whom he had met at a screening of Arachnophobia in Burbank, California.[10]

Career[edit]

Acting and podcasting[edit]

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

Hardwick appeared in Rob Zombie's horror movies House of a thousand Corpses and Halloween II.[9] He also made a small appearance in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.[12] In 2010, he was featured within the movie The Mother of Invention. He made guest appearances on such shows as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Married... with Children,[9] Boy Meets World[9] and Zoey 101, and was a visitor commentator on VH1's I really like the '90s, which aired in 2005.[9] He appeared as a television host on hip hop group Little Brother's 2005 album, The Minstrel Show.[13]

Hardwick is a contributing writer for Wired (since 2007), wrote for Web Soup and Back on the Barnyard,[9] and he made regular appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Chelsea Lately. As a part of what Hardwick calls his "nerd media empire", he ran Nerdist Theater, an leisure area at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles.[14][15][16] He entered into an equity partnership with GeekChicDaily in June 2011[17] to type Nerdist Industries.[18]

Hardwick revealed a self-help guide, The Nerdist Way: How to achieve the next Level (In Real Life), with Penguin Publishing, in late 2011. In February 2012, GeekChicDaily totally merged with Nerdist Industries and turned Nerdist News, with Hardwick working as Chief Creative 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 introduced that he can be rebranding The Nerdist Podcast to ID10T and that he could be leaving Nerdist for the reason that contract with Legendary came to an finish in 2017.[21]

Voice-over work[edit]

Hardwick voiced Alexander Hamilton within the Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd and Otis the Cow within the Barnyard collection (originally voiced by Kevin James within the film Barnyard).

He provided the voice for Green Arrow/Oliver Queen on The Batman and Lego Dimensions, Glowface within the X's, and Sokka in the Legend of Korra,[22] in addition to voice work for The Minstrel Show from the rap group Little Brother, and narration for the introduction video for the Flash animation game George Plimpton's Video Falconry. Between May 2013 and July 2016, he voiced "Craig the Snake" on Sanjay and Craig. He additionally voiced the character Vaughn in Telltale Games's Tales from the Borderlands,[12] reprising his role within the Borderlands 2 DLC Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary and in Borderlands 3.

In 2017, Hardwick visitor-voiced the villain Klaxxon for a special episode of Futurama released on the Nerdist podcast.

Hosting[edit]

In 1993, Hardwick hosted the MTV sport show Trashed, during which contestants would answer trivia questions or threat some of their belongings being destroyed.[23] From 1995 to 1998, he co-hosted with Jenny McCarthy the MTV courting game show Singled Out,[24] wherein the main contestant selects from a pool of 50 individuals based on their attributes without seeing them. While working on Singled Out, he met fellow MTV personality Jacinda Barrett, to whom he grew to become engaged however never married. Later, he hosted the syndicated courting present Shipmates.

From October via December 2007, Hardwick hosted the weekly series Wired Science on PBS, whereas writing for Wired journal. On June 7, 2009, he became the host of G4's Web Soup, a spinoff of E!'s The Soup. Hardwick had beforehand visitor-hosted The Soup's predecessor, Talk Soup.

Since February 2010, Hardwick has been producing the "Nerdist" podcast, which he hosts with Jonah Ray and Matt Mira.[25] The podcast was named considered one of 2010's greatest by The A.V. Club[26] and one in all the ten greatest comedy podcasts by Rolling Stone.[27]

In May 2011, Hardwick signed a contract with BBC America to host a pilot of a panel discuss show for the community based mostly on the podcast. The pilot additionally included Hardwick doing intros and outros for BBC America's new Saturday-night Ministry of Laughs comedy block of Britcoms.[28]

In 2011, Hardwick started hosting Talking Dead, a dwell half-hour (later expanded to 1 hour) aftershow to AMC's collection The Walking Dead. Hardwick interviews celebrity fans of The Walking Dead as well as members of its solid and crew, interacts with the studio viewers, re-airs clips of the episode, plays games with and polls the viewers via the Internet, and presents exclusive clips of the next episode. In August 2013, Hardwick started hosting Talking Bad, a reside half-hour (later expanded to 1 hour on the final episode) talk present companion sequence to the ultimate eight episodes of the AMC sequence Breaking Bad.[quotation wanted] In February 2016, Hardwick began hosting Talking Saul, a stay one-hour speak present companion collection to the season two premiere and finale of the AMC sequence Better Call Saul.

On December 24, 2011, BBC America aired The Nerdist: The Year in Review, a comedy particular hosted by Hardwick in Los Angeles. In August 2012, he hosted a special episode of The Nerdist on BBC America to "debate" the results of time and area with different associates and celeb nerds. The episode was really an effort to promote the community's upcoming September 1 seventh-season premiere of the sequence Doctor Who.[quotation needed]

On April 30, 2013, Comedy Central introduced that Hardwick would host a half-hour comedic panel present called @midnight with Chris Hardwick. Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, formerly of Reno 911!, served as government producers/showrunners.[29] It premiered on October 21, 2013.

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

Stand-up comedy[edit]

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

In 2004, Comedy Central used some of his material for an animated collection known as Shorties Watchin' Shorties.[31][better supply needed] In 2007, each his solo standup and duo act had been featured on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death Ray. Hard 'n Phirm completed a number of songs for the 2009 Rob Zombie animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. Hardwick introduced plans to do a live stand-up album from his 2009 tour.[quotation wanted] He has toured as a featured comic for Joel McHale. In 2010, he appeared as a stand-up comic on John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show twice.[32][33] In the same 12 months, Hardwick carried out on the Comedy Central present The Benson Interruption.[12]

On February 17, 2012, Hardwick filmed Mandroid, his first one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central in New York City. Jonah Ray was his unaired opener.[34][higher supply wanted] The special aired on Comedy Central on November 10, 2012, and was properly received.[35] Extended and uncensored DVD, CD, and digital versions were released January 22, 2013.[36][37]

Influences[edit]

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

Personal life[edit]

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

Relationships[edit]

Hardwick was beforehand engaged to model and actress Jacinda Barrett, and had a relationship with actress Andrea Savage. In 2004, he began a relationship actress and comedian Janet Varney and they'd been together for seven years until their separation in 2011.[42] Shortly after, he would go on to this point Chloe Dykstra (from late 2011 to July 2014).[43][44] He grew to become engaged to model and actress Lydia Hearst on September 12, 2015,[45] and the 2 married on August 20, 2016, in Pasadena, California.[46] In August 2021, they introduced that they had been expecting their first baby collectively.[47] On January 29, 2022, they introduced the arrival of their daughter.[48]

Abuse allegation[edit]

Hardwick's ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra printed an essay on Medium on June 14, 2018, in which she alleged that she had been subjected to emotional and sexual abuse by an unnamed ex-boyfriend, and claimed that she was subject to career blacklisting in retaliation for ending the connection.[49][50] The essay didn't title the abuser, however the timing and several key particulars led readers to conclude it was Hardwick.[51] In response, Nerdist removed all mentions of Hardwick from its website[52] whereas AMC introduced that further episodes of Talking with Chris Hardwick can be pulled. Hardwick additionally stepped away from moderating all AMC and BBC America panels at San Diego Comic-Con.[53][54]

On July 25, 2018, AMC introduced that a comprehensive investigation performed alongside legislation firm Loeb & Loeb had failed to verify Dykstra's allegations and that Hardwick would return as host of Talking Dead and Talking with Chris Hardwick. Their assertion learn, "We take these issues very severely and given the information obtainable to us after a really careful evaluation, including interviews with numerous individuals, we imagine returning Chris to work is the appropriate step."[55] Dykstra, who refused to cooperate in the investigation, acknowledged two days later on Twitter, "I selected to not take part in the investigation of the person I spoke of. I do not imagine in an eye fixed for a watch." She additionally stated that she "originally wrote her essay so she might transfer on together with her life, and now she intends to do so".[56] On July 31, 2018, NBC announced that Hardwick would return as host of The Wall following its personal investigation.[57] On August 10, 2018, his name was returned to Nerdist's webpage after their own investigation.[58]

Discography[edit]

Horses and Grasses (2005)Mandroid (2012)Funcomfortable (2016)

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

Video video games[edit]

Awards and nominations[edit]

References[edit]

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