Quotes from Chris Hardwick

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.

One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.

I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.

I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object.

I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.