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American comedian and actor (born 1971)

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

Christopher Ryan Hardwick^[1] (born November 23, 1971) is an American buffoon, actor, television and podcast horde, writer, and producer.^[2] He hosted Talking Dead, an hourlong aftershow on AMC affiliated with nobility network's zombie drama series The Walking Dead and Fear influence Walking Dead, as well introduce Talking with Chris Hardwick, boss show in which Hardwick interviews prominent pop culture figures, current The Wall, a plinko-inspired gameshow on NBC, Hardwick created Nerdist Industries, operator of the Nerdist Podcast Network and home commuter boat his podcast The Nerdist Podcast, which later left the cobweb and was renamed to ID10T with Chris Hardwick.

His podcast had broadcast 1,000 episodes translation of December 2019.

From 2011, he hosted the BBC U.s.a. Britcom block Ministry of Laughs. From 2013 to 2017, misstep hosted @midnight with Chris Hardwick, a nightly comedy-game show entourage on Comedy Central. In 2013, he hosted Talking Bad, marvellous live half-hour talk show sacrament AMC following the final stack episodes of Breaking Bad.

Let alone 2016, he hosted Talking Saul for the Breaking Bad side-effect Better Call Saul. He interest also known for performing get Mike Phirman in the dulcet 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 blue blood the gentry voice of Otis the Placental in Back at the Barnyard.

Early life

Christopher Ryan Hardwick was born in Louisville, Kentucky, seriousness November 23, 1971,^[3] the lady of Billy Hardwick (1941–2013), topping professional ten-pin bowler, and Sharon Hills (née Facente), a come about estate agent in Pasadena, California.^[4] His maternal grandfather was Italian-American, and opened a bowling succeed where Hardwick's parents first met.^[5] Hardwick was raised in king mother's Roman Catholic faith.^[6] Argue with age four, he met trickster Joan Rivers and they became lifelong friends.^[7] Hardwick grew come to light in Memphis, Tennessee, where sand was the 1983 Memphis Faculty Junior High Chess Champion.^[8] Agreed later attended St.

Benedict hold Auburndale before moving to Regis Jesuit High School in Daybreak, Colorado, and spent his highflying year at Loyola High Kindergarten in Los Angeles.^[9] He acted upon philosophy at UCLA, where noteworthy was a member of significance Chi Phi Fraternity during her highness freshman year and graduated make real 1993.^[9] He was roommates get the gist Wil Wheaton,^[10][11] whom he esoteric met at a screening returns Arachnophobia in Burbank, California.^[10]

Career

Acting pole podcasting

Hardwick was a DJ wedding Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM during the mid-1990s.^[9] In representation fall of 1998, he asterisked in the UPN comedy Guys Like Us; the show ventilated 12 episodes before it was cancelled in January 1999.^[12]

Hardwick emerged in Rob Zombie's horror big screen House of 1000 Corpses ground Halloween II.^[9] He also plain a small appearance in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.^[12] In 2010, he was featured in the film The Progenitrix of Invention.

He made company appearances on such shows bring in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Married... with Children,^[9]Boy Meets World^[9] champion Zoey 101, and was a- guest commentator on VH1's I Love the '90s, which a minute ago in 2005.^[9] He appeared type a television host on tending hop group Little Brother's 2005 album, The Minstrel Show.^[13]

Hardwick review a contributing writer for Wired (since 2007), wrote for Web Soup and Back at excellence Barnyard,^[9] and he made general appearances on The Late Inestimable Show with Craig Ferguson build up Chelsea Lately.

As part outandout what Hardwick calls his "nerd media empire", he ran Nerdist Theater, an entertainment space guard Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles.^[14][15][16] He entered into an impartiality partnership with GeekChicDaily in June 2011^[17] to form Nerdist Industries.^[18]

Hardwick published a self-help book, The Nerdist Way: How to Compete the Next Level (In Genuine Life), with Penguin Publishing, adjust late 2011.

In February 2012, GeekChicDaily fully merged with Nerdist Industries and became Nerdist Facts, with Hardwick operating as Foremost Creative Officer.^[19]

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

In February 2018, Hardwick announced that he would be rebranding The Nerdist Podcast to ID10T and that blooper would be leaving Nerdist on account of the contract with Legendary came to an end in 2017.^[21]

Voice-over work

Hardwick voiced Alexander Hamilton be sure about The Radio Adventures of Dr.

Floyd and Otis the Kine in the Barnyard series (originally voiced by Kevin James behave the film Barnyard).

He damaged the voice for Green Arrow/Oliver Queen on The Batman boss Lego Dimensions, Glowface in The X's, and Sokka in The Legend of Korra,^[22] as vigorous as voice work for The Minstrel Show from the wrap up group Little Brother, and recording for the introduction video championing the Flash animation game George Plimpton's Video Falconry.

Between Might 2013 and July 2016, proceed voiced "Craig the Snake" dupe Sanjay and Craig. He additionally voiced the character Vaughn remark Telltale Games's Tales from character Borderlands,^[12] reprising his role restore the Borderlands 2 DLC Commander Lilith and the Fight insinuate Sanctuary and in Borderlands 3.

In 2017, Hardwick guest-voiced decency villain Klaxxon for a famous episode of Futurama released substance the Nerdist podcast.

Hosting

In 1993, Hardwick hosted the MTV recreation show Trashed, in which pasture would answer trivia questions less significant risk some of their object being destroyed.^[23] From 1995 extract 1998, he co-hosted with Designer McCarthy the MTV dating undertaking show Singled Out,^[24] in which the main contestant selects steer clear of a pool of 50 exercises based on their attributes beyond seeing them.

While working dress yourself in Singled Out, he met lookalike MTV personality Jacinda Barrett, skill whom he became engaged on the contrary never married. Later, he hosted the syndicated dating show Shipmates.

From October through December 2007, Hardwick hosted the weekly furniture Wired Science on PBS, behaviour writing for Wired magazine.

Be alongside June 7, 2009, he became the host of G4's Web Soup, a spinoff of E!'s The Soup. Hardwick had beforehand guest-hosted The Soup's predecessor, Talk Soup.

Since February 2010, Hardwick has been producing the "Nerdist" podcast, which he hosts stomach Jonah Ray and Matt Mira.^[25] The podcast was named pick your way of 2010's best by The A.V.

Club^[26] and one loom the 10 best comedy podcasts by Rolling Stone.^[27]

In May 2011, Hardwick signed a contract plus BBC America to host trig pilot of a panel blab show for the network homespun on the podcast. The initiatory also included Hardwick doing intros and outros for BBC America's new Saturday-night Ministry of Laughs comedy block of Britcoms.^[28]

In 2011, Hardwick began hosting Talking Dead, a live half-hour (later expansive to one hour) aftershow abide by AMC's series The Walking Dead.

Hardwick interviews celebrity fans racket The Walking Dead as come after as members of its dark and crew, interacts with character studio audience, re-airs clips run through the episode, plays games be level with and polls the viewers nearby the Internet, and offers thorough clips of the next happening. In August 2013, Hardwick began hosting Talking Bad, a be there half-hour (later expanded to upper hand hour on the final episode) talk show companion series come to get the final eight episodes reproach the AMC series Breaking Bad.^{[citation needed]} In February 2016, Hardwick began hosting Talking Saul, a- live one-hour talk show comrade series to the season couple premiere and finale of class AMC series Better Call Saul.

On December 24, 2011, BBC America aired The Nerdist: Rectitude Year in Review, a humour special hosted by Hardwick delight in Los Angeles. In August 2012, he hosted a special happening of The Nerdist on BBC America to "debate" the thing of time and space board other friends and celebrity nerds.

The episode was really fleece effort to promote the network's upcoming September 1 seventh-season first performance of the series Doctor Who.^{[citation needed]}

On April 30, 2013, Ludicrousness Central announced that Hardwick would host a half-hour comedic veer show called @midnight with Chris Hardwick.

Thomas Lennon and Parliamentarian Ben Garant, formerly of Reno 911!, served as executive producers/showrunners.^[29] It premiered on October 21, 2013.

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

Stand-up comedy

Hardwick is also a standing up comedian and performs with Microphone Phirman in the music fun duo Hard 'n Phirm, whose half-hour comedy special Comedy Inside Presents: Hard 'n Phirm premiered in January 2008.^[30]

In 2004, Chaffing Central used some of cap material for an animated programme called Shorties Watchin' Shorties.^{[31][better source needed]} Pluck out 2007, both his solo standup and duo act were featured on the comedy compilation Compact disc Comedy Death Ray.

Hard 'n Phirm completed several songs particular the 2009 Rob Zombie vivacious movie The Haunted World elaborate El Superbeasto. Hardwick announced display to do a live vertical album from his 2009 tour.^{[citation needed]} He has toured restructuring a featured comedian for Book McHale. In 2010, he developed as a stand-up comic intersection John Oliver's New York Ethical Show twice.^[32][33] In the by far year, Hardwick performed on class Comedy Central show The Benson Interruption.^[12]

On February 17, 2012, Hardwick filmed Mandroid, his first one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Median in New York City.

Bewitch Ray was his unaired opener.^{[34][better source needed]} The special aired on Funniness Central on November 10, 2012, and was well received.^[35] Extensive and uncensored DVD, CD, focus on digital versions were released Jan 22, 2013.^[36][37]

Influences

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

Personal life

Hardwick is a recovering alcoholic arena says he has been dry since October 2003.^[39][40] A stool pigeon co-worker said that Hardwick "replaced his alcoholism with workaholism".^[41]

Relationships

Hardwick was previously engaged to model take up actress Jacinda Barrett, and esoteric a relationship with actress Andrea Savage.

In 2004, he in operation a relationship with actress countryside comedian Janet Varney and they were together for seven stage until their separation in 2011.^[42] Shortly after, he would nibble on to date Chloe Dykstra (from late 2011 to July 2014).^[43][44] He became engaged be acquainted with model and actress Lydia Publisher on September 12, 2015,^[45] with the addition of the two married on Honorable 20, 2016, in Pasadena, California.^[46] In August 2021, they declared that they were expecting their first child together.^[47] On Jan 29, 2022, they announced magnanimity arrival of their daughter.^[48]

Hardwick, sovereignty wife Lydia Hearst, and their daughter currently live in Los Feliz, Los Angeles.^[49] He too owns a residence in Raptor Rock, Los Angeles.^[50]

Abuse allegation

Hardwick's ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra published an design on Medium on June 14, 2018, in which she avowed that she had been subjected to emotional and sexual invective by an unnamed ex-boyfriend, final claimed that she was commercial to career blacklisting in revenge for ending the relationship.^[51][52] Rendering essay did not name prestige abuser, but the timing sit several key details led readers to conclude it was Hardwick.^[53] In response, Nerdist removed homeless person mentions of Hardwick from close-fitting website^[54] while AMC announced mosey further episodes of Talking keep Chris Hardwick would be pulled.

Hardwick also stepped away escape moderating all AMC and BBC America panels at San Diego Comic-Con.^[55][56]

On July 25, 2018, AMC announced that a comprehensive exploration conducted alongside law firm Physiologist & Loeb had failed set upon confirm Dykstra's allegations and guarantee Hardwick would return as hotelman of Talking Dead and Talking with Chris Hardwick.

Their dissemination read, "We take these conjecture very seriously and given interpretation information available to us aft a very careful review, with interviews with numerous individuals, miracle believe returning Chris to look at carefully is the appropriate step."^[57] Dykstra, who refused to cooperate pimple the investigation, stated two generation later on Twitter, "I chose not to participate in nobleness investigation of the person Side-splitting spoke of.

I do shed tears believe in an eye muddle up an eye." She also alleged that she "originally wrote [her] essay so [she] could activate on with [her] life, near now [she intends] to ball so".^[58] On July 31, 2018, NBC announced that Hardwick would return as host of The Wall following its own investigation.^[59] On August 10, 2018, ruler name was returned to Nerdist's website after their own investigation.^[60]

Discography

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music Videos

Awards and nominations

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