Christopher Ryan Hardwick (born November 23, 1971) is an American comedian, actor, television host, writer, producer and podcaster. She has hosted the Talking Dead, an hourly aftershow at AMC affiliated with the zombie drama series The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead , as well as
Hardwick originated Stacee Jaxx's role at the Rock of Ages during a premier run in Los Angeles (2005-2006). In 2011, he started hosting the Ministry of Laughs , a BBC America Britcom block, and Talking Dead , an hourly talk show on AMC after the episode The Walking Dead and Afraid of Walking Dead . In 2013, Hardwick hosted Talking Bad , half-hour talkshow live on AMC after the last eight episodes of Breaking Bad , and in 2016 he started hosting Talking Saul for Breaking Bad ' s spin-off, Better Call Saul . He is also known for appearing with Mike Phirman on Hard 'n Phirm, hosting Singled Out , Wired Science , Web Soup , and as his voice Otis The Cow at Back at Barnyard , replacing Kevin James.
He also created Nerdist Industries, operator of the Nerdist Podcast Network, and home of The Nerdist Podcast, which later left the network with Hardwick and renamed ID10T with Chris Hardwick. Her podcast currently has 966 episodes, being one of the most popular and long-lived podcasts on iTunes.
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Hardwick was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 23, 1971. He was the professional bowler son of Billy Hardwick (1941-2013) and Sharon Hills (nÃÆ' Â © e Facente), a real estate agent in Pasadena, California. Her maternal grandfather was Italian American, and opened the bowling alley where her parents first met. Hardwick grew up in his mother's Roman Catholic faith. At the age of four, he meets comedian and struggling television personality, Joan Rivers, and becomes lifelong friend with him. Hardwick grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was Chess Junior Junior City champion in 1983. He then attended St. Louis. Benedict at Auburndale high school, then moved to Regis Jesuit High School in Colorado, and then spent his senior year at Loyola High School in Los Angeles.
Hardwick studied philosophy at UCLA, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Brotherhood during his first year and graduated in 1993. He was a roommate with Wil Wheaton for some time. They met at the Arachnophobia show in Burbank, California.
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Careers
Hardwick was a DJ at the Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM during the mid-1990s. In the fall of 1998, he starred in the comedy movie UPN Guys Like Us ; the show aired 12 episodes before being canceled in January 1999.
Hardwick appeared in the horror film Rob Zombie House of 1000 Corpses and Halloween II . He also made a small appearance on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. In 2010, she was featured in the film The Mother of Invention. She made guest appearances on shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , Married... with Children , Boys Meet the World and Zoey 101 , and was a guest commentator at VH1's I Love the '90s , which premiered in 2005. She appeared as host of the hip hop group Little Brother in 2005, < i> The Minstrel Show .
Hardwick is the author who contributed to Wired (since 2007), wrote for Web Soup and Back at Barnyard , and he made regular appearances on > Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Chelsea Lately . As part of what Hardwick calls "the empire of the media empire," he runs the Nerdist Theater, an entertainment hall at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles. He entered into an equity partnership with GeekChicDaily in June 2011 to form Nerdist Industries.
Hardwick publishes a self-help book, The Nerdist Way: How to Achieve the Next Level (In Real Life) , with Penguin Publishing, at the end of 2011. In February 2012, GeekChicDaily fully merges with Nerdist Industries and becomes Nerdist News, with Hardwick operating as Chief Creative Officer.
On July 10, 2012, Nerdist Industries was acquired by Legendary Entertainment. Hardwick was named the co-president of the Legendary digital business.
In February 2018, Hardwick announced that he would rebranding the Nerdist Podcast to ID10T and that he would leave Nerdist because the contract with Legendary ended in 2017.
Voice-over works
Hardwick voiced Alexander Hamilton in The Radio Adventures of Dr Floyd and Otis in the series Barnyard (this character was originally voiced by actor Kevin James in the movie Barnyard: The Original Party Animals ).
He voted for the Green Arrow/Oliver Queen on The Batman and Lego Dimensions , Glowface at The X's , and Sokka at The Legend Korra , as well as voice work for The Minstrel Show from the Little Brother rap group, and the narrative for an introductory video for the Flash animated game Video of George Plimpton Falconry . Between May 2013 and July 2016, he voiced "Craig the Snake" on Sanjay and Craig . He also voiced Vaughn's character in the Tales Telltale Games from Borderlands.
In 2017, Hardwick's guest was voiced as a villain, Klaxxon, for a special podcast episode Futurama released on a Nerdist podcast.
Hosting
In 1993, Hardwick hosted a MTV game Trashed , in which contestants would answer trivia questions or risk some of their destroyed items. From 1995 to 1998, he hosted the MTV Singles Out game show, where the main contestants chose from a collection of 50 people based on their attributes without seeing them. While working on Singled Out , she meets fellow MTV member Jacinda Barrett, who is her fiance but never married. Later, he hosted a syndicated dating event Shipmates .
From October to December 2007, Hardwick hosted a weekly series of Wired Science at PBS, while writing for Wired magazine. On June 7, 2009, he hosted Web Soup G4 , a spin-off of E! The Soup . Hardwick previously hosted The Soup ' its predecessor, Talk Soup .
Since February 2010, Hardwick has produced a "Nerdist" podcast, which he hosts with Jonah Ray and Matt Mira. The podcast was crowned as one of the best in 2010 by The A.V. Club and one of the top 10 comedy podcasts by Rolling Stone .
In May 2011, Hardwick signed a contract with BBC America to host a pilot talk show panel for networks based on podcasts. The pilots also included Hardwick doing intros and outros for BBC Saturday just last night-Saturday Minister Laughs the comcom block of Britcoms.
In 2011, Hardwick began hosting Talking Dead , half an hour of life (later expanded to one hour) after the AMC series The Walking Dead . Hardwick interviewed celebrity fans of The Walking Dead as well as cast members and crew, interacted with studio audiences, relayed episode clips, played games with and polled viewers over the internet, and offered exclusive clips from the next episode. In August 2013, Hardwick began hosting Talking Bad , half an hour of life (later extended to an hour in the last episode) series of talk show companions to the last eight episodes of the AMC series Bad Breaking >. In February 2016, Hardwick began hosting the Talking Saul , a one-hour live talkshow series for the premiere two and AMC Better Call Saul final series.
On 24 December 2011, BBC America aired The Nerdist: The Year in Review , a special comedy hosted by Hardwick in Los Angeles. In August 2012, he hosted a special episode of The Nerdist on BBC America to "debate" the effects of space and time with other celebrity friends and nerds. This episode is really an effort to promote the upcoming network on September 1 of the seventh season of the Doctor Who series.
On April 30, 2013, Comedy Central announced that Hardwick will host a half-hour comedy show called @midnight with Chris Hardwick . Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, formerly of Reno 911! , serving as executive producer/showrunners. It airs on October 21, 2013.
On November 7, 2014, he hosted the "Talent, Art, Movie and Costume" section of the BlizzCon game convention.
Stand-up comedy
Hardwick is also a stand-up comedian and performed with Mike Phirman in the comedy duet Hard 'n Phirm, whose comedy half-hour comedy
In 2004, Comedy Central used some of its material for an animated series called Shorties Watchies Shorties. In 2007, both his stand and duo solo actions were featured on the Comedy Death Ray comedy compilation CD. Hard 'n Phirm completed several songs for the animated film Rob Zombie 2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto . Hardwick announced plans to perform a live stand-up album from his 2009 tour. He has toured as a leading comedian for Joel McHale. In 2010, he appeared as a stand-up comic in the New Olive Stand-Up Event John Oliver twice. That same year, Hardwick appeared on Comedy Central The Benson Interruption .
On February 17, 2012, Chris Hardwick filmed Mandroid , his first stand-up for an hour specifically for Comedy Central in New York City. Jonah Ray is a non-consecutive opening. The special event airs on Comedy Central on November 10, 2012 and is well received. The expanded and uncensored DVD, CD, and digital versions were released on January 22, 2013.
Influences
Hardwick said that his influence included Steve Martin, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Hicks, Emo Philips, and Bill Cosby.
Personal life
Hardwick was previously engaged to model/actress Jacinda Barrett and in relationship with actress Janet Varney from 2004 to 2011, and with model and actress Chloe Dykstra from late 2011 to July 2014. She became engaged to model, blogger, heir and actress Lydia Hearst at 12 September 2015, and both married on August 20, 2016, in Pasadena, California.
Hardwick talked openly about becoming an alcoholic and said he had been aware since October 8, 2003.
Alleged abuse
On June 14, 2018, Hardwick's former girlfriend Chloe Dykstra published an essay on Medium in which she claimed to have suffered emotional and sexual abuse by an ex-girlfriend; in retaliation for ending the relationship, he allegedly broke into a career blacklist. The essay does not mention the perpetrator, but time and some key details, such as the offender who is nearly 20 years older than him and has gone from "a little successful podcaster to the CEO of a power plant from his own company," leads the readers to conclude. is Hardwick.
In response, Nerdist removed all mention of Hardwick from his website and released an official statement saying "This type of behavior is contrary to everything we strive for and believe [...] The company has removed all references to Mr. Hardwick even as the original Founder of Nerdist awaits an investigation more. "In addition, AMC announced that a further episode of Talking with Chris Hardwick will be withdrawn. Furthermore, Hardwick stepped away from moderating all AMC and BBC America panels in San Diego Comic-Con.
Hardwick has rejected Dykstra's claim, saying, "Our three-year relationship is not perfect - we are ultimately not a good match and arguing - even shouting at each other - but I love him, and do my best to lift and support him. anything and I never attacked him sexually. "Text messages that might have come from Dykstra seem to indicate that Hardwick ended the relationship, and that Dykstra might have sent him months and then asked to go on with things. An ex-girlfriend and his wife both said that Hardwick had never been rude to them.
Discography
- Horses and Grass (2005)
- Mandroid (2012)
- Fun convenient (2016)
Moviesography
Movies
Television
Video game
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Chris Hardwick on IMDb
- Chris Hardwick Discography at Discogs
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