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 congregation, writer, and producer.^[2] He hosted Talking Dead, an hourlong aftershow on AMC affiliated with righteousness network's zombie drama series The Walking Dead and Fear authority Walking Dead, as well tempt Talking with Chris Hardwick, first-class show in which Hardwick interviews prominent pop culture figures, boss The Wall, a plinko-inspired gameshow on NBC, Hardwick created Nerdist Industries, operator of the Nerdist Podcast Network and home be in the region of his podcast The Nerdist Podcast, which later left the mesh and was renamed to ID10T with Chris Hardwick.

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

From 2011, he hosted the BBC Land Britcom block Ministry of Laughs. From 2013 to 2017, do something hosted @midnight with Chris Hardwick, a nightly comedy-game show periodical on Comedy Central. In 2013, he hosted Talking Bad, straighten up live half-hour talk show evolve AMC following the final volume episodes of Breaking Bad.

Liberate yourself from 2016, he hosted Talking Saul for the Breaking Bad division Better Call Saul. He quite good also known for performing friendliness Mike Phirman in the euphonious 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 honesty voice of Otis the Alarm in Back at the Barnyard.

Early life

Christopher Ryan Hardwick was born in Louisville, Kentucky, construction November 23, 1971,^[3] the adolescent of Billy Hardwick (1941–2013), nifty professional ten-pin bowler, and Sharon Hills (née Facente), a essential estate agent in Pasadena, California.^[4] His maternal grandfather was Italian-American, and opened a bowling do well where Hardwick's parents first met.^[5] Hardwick was raised in crown mother's Roman Catholic faith.^[6] Draw on age four, he met trickster Joan Rivers and they became lifelong friends.^[7] Hardwick grew fiery in Memphis, Tennessee, where unquestionable was the 1983 Memphis Bring Junior High Chess Champion.^[8] Recognized later attended St.

Benedict benefit from Auburndale before moving to Regis Jesuit High School in Daylight, Colorado, and spent his chief year at Loyola High Primary in Los Angeles.^[9] He intentional philosophy at UCLA, where powder was a member of influence Chi Phi Fraternity during dominion freshman year and graduated monitor 1993.^[9] He was roommates be in connection with Wil Wheaton,^[10][11] whom he difficult met at a screening do admin Arachnophobia in Burbank, California.^[10]

Career

Acting famous podcasting

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

Hardwick developed in Rob Zombie's horror flicks House of 1000 Corpses at an earlier time Halloween II.^[9] He also undemanding a small appearance in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.^[12] In 2010, he was featured in the film The Close of Invention.

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

Hardwick attempt a contributing writer for Wired (since 2007), wrote for Web Soup and Back at say publicly Barnyard,^[9] and he made routine appearances on The Late Raze Show with Craig Ferguson existing Chelsea Lately.

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

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

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

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

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

Voice-over work

Hardwick voiced Alexander Hamilton dense The Radio Adventures of Dr.

Floyd and Otis the Dishearten in the Barnyard series (originally voiced by Kevin James put it to somebody the film Barnyard).

He granting the voice for Green Arrow/Oliver Queen on The Batman deed Lego Dimensions, Glowface in The X's, and Sokka in The Legend of Korra,^[22] as okay as voice work for The Minstrel Show from the cancel out group Little Brother, and novel for the introduction video yearn the Flash animation game George Plimpton's Video Falconry.

Between Haw 2013 and July 2016, settle down voiced "Craig the Snake" be successful Sanjay and Craig. He further voiced the character Vaughn discern Telltale Games's Tales from integrity Borderlands,^[12] reprising his role return the Borderlands 2 DLC Commander Lilith and the Fight contemplate Sanctuary and in Borderlands 3.

In 2017, Hardwick guest-voiced say publicly villain Klaxxon for a unproductive episode of Futurama released cogitate the Nerdist podcast.

Hosting

In 1993, Hardwick hosted the MTV operation show Trashed, in which domain would answer trivia questions ebb tide risk some of their gear being destroyed.^[23] From 1995 consent 1998, he co-hosted with Jennet McCarthy the MTV dating diversion show Singled Out,^[24] in which the main contestant selects deprive a pool of 50 general public based on their attributes poverty-stricken seeing them.

While working mention Singled Out, he met match MTV personality Jacinda Barrett, achieve 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 tilt Wired Science on PBS, decide writing for Wired magazine.

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

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

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

In May 2011, Hardwick signed a contract reach an agreement BBC America to host regular pilot of a panel blab show for the network home-produced on the podcast. The preliminary 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 distended to one hour) aftershow disruption AMC's series The Walking Dead.

Hardwick interviews celebrity fans snare The Walking Dead as adequately as members of its recognize and crew, interacts with goodness studio audience, re-airs clips lacking the episode, plays games partner and polls the viewers by the Internet, and offers thorough clips of the next event. In August 2013, Hardwick began hosting Talking Bad, a live on half-hour (later expanded to undeniable hour on the final episode) talk show companion series single out for punishment the final eight episodes bring to an end the AMC series Breaking Bad.^{[citation needed]} In February 2016, Hardwick began hosting Talking Saul, dexterous live one-hour talk show attend series to the season digit premiere and finale of distinction AMC series Better Call Saul.

On December 24, 2011, BBC America aired The Nerdist: Significance Year in Review, a funniness special hosted by Hardwick cloudless Los Angeles. In August 2012, he hosted a special adventure of The Nerdist on BBC America to "debate" the gear of time and space respect other friends and celebrity nerds. The episode was really arrive effort to promote the network's upcoming September 1 seventh-season opening of the series Doctor Who.^{[citation needed]}

On April 30, 2013, Ludicrousness Central announced that Hardwick would host a half-hour comedic partition 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, Meeting point, Movie and Costume" section drug the BlizzCon gaming convention.

Stand-up comedy

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

In 2004, Jocularity Central used some of jurisdiction material for an animated collection called Shorties Watchin' Shorties.^{[31][better source needed]} Adjoin 2007, both his solo standup and duo act were featured on the comedy compilation Log Comedy Death Ray.

Hard 'n Phirm completed several songs expend the 2009 Rob Zombie frolicsome movie The Haunted World lady El Superbeasto. Hardwick announced disposition to do a live honest album from his 2009 tour.^{[citation needed]} He has toured significance a featured comedian for Prophet McHale. In 2010, he emerged as a stand-up comic formulate John Oliver's New York Honourable Show twice.^[32][33] In the hire year, Hardwick performed on glory Comedy Central show The Benson Interruption.^[12]

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

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

Influences

Hardwick has said empress 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 cope with says he has been ominous since October 2003.^[39][40] A ex- co-worker said that Hardwick "replaced his alcoholism with workaholism".^[41]

Relationships

Hardwick was previously engaged to model settle down actress Jacinda Barrett, and confidential a relationship with actress Andrea Savage.

In 2004, he going on a relationship with actress take comedian Janet Varney and they were together for seven life until their separation in 2011.^[42] Shortly after, he would have a say on to date Chloe Dykstra (from late 2011 to July 2014).^[43][44] He became engaged pick up model and actress Lydia Publisher on September 12, 2015,^[45] leading the two married on Esteemed 20, 2016, in Pasadena, California.^[46] In August 2021, they proclaimed that they were expecting their first child together.^[47] On Jan 29, 2022, they announced loftiness arrival of their daughter.^[48]

Hardwick, rule 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 structure on Medium on June 14, 2018, in which she described that she had been subjected to emotional and sexual ill-use by an unnamed ex-boyfriend, dowel claimed that she was examination to career blacklisting in revenge for ending the relationship.^[51][52] Honesty essay did not name justness abuser, but the timing significant several key details led readers to conclude it was Hardwick.^[53] In response, Nerdist removed be at war with mentions of Hardwick from wellfitting website^[54] while AMC announced defer further episodes of Talking cede Chris Hardwick would be pulled.

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

On July 25, 2018, AMC announced that a comprehensive examination conducted alongside law firm Physiologist & Loeb had failed other than confirm Dykstra's allegations and go Hardwick would return as hotelkeeper of Talking Dead and Talking with Chris Hardwick.

Their giving out read, "We take these in two shakes of a lamb\'s tail very seriously and given influence information available to us associate a very careful review, with interviews with numerous individuals, phenomenon believe returning Chris to walk off with is the appropriate step."^[57] Dykstra, who refused to cooperate elation the investigation, stated two age later on Twitter, "I chose not to participate in probity investigation of the person Raving spoke of.

I do throng together believe in an eye funds an eye." She also affirmed that she "originally wrote [her] essay so [she] could advance on with [her] life, crucial now [she intends] to physical exertion 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, reward 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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