Christopher Ryan Hardwick[1] (born November 23, 1971) is an American comedian, actor, television and podcast host, author, and producer.[2] He hosts Talking Dead, an hourlong aftershow on AMC affiliated with the community's zombie drama series The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, as well as Talking with Chris Hardwick, a present in which Hardwick interviews outstanding pop culture figures, and The Wall, a plinko-inspired gameshow on NBC, Hardwick created Nerdist Industries, operator of the Nerdist Podcast Network and home 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-sport show sequence on Comedy Central. In 2013, he hosted Talking Bad, a dwell half-hour speak present on AMC following the final eight episodes of Breaking Bad. From 2016, he hosted Talking Saul for the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. He can be identified for performing with Mike Phirman within the musical comedy duo Hard 'n Phirm, in addition to internet hosting Singled Out, Wired Science, and Web Soup, and the voice of Otis the Cow in Back on 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), a professional ten-pin bowler, and Sharon Hills (née Facente), an actual estate agent in Pasadena, California.[4] His maternal grandfather was Italian-American, and opened a bowling alley the place Hardwick's dad and mom first met.[5] Hardwick was raised in his mom's Roman Catholic religion.[6] At age four, he met comic Joan Rivers and they became lifelong associates.[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 transferring to Regis Jesuit Highschool in Aurora, Colorado, and spent his senior year at Loyola High school in Los Angeles.[9] He studied philosophy at UCLA, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity throughout his freshman yr 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 earlier than it was cancelled in January 1999.[12]

Hardwick appeared in Rob Zombie's horror films House of a thousand Corpses and Halloween II.[9] He additionally made a small appearance in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.[12] In 2010, he was featured in the movie The Mother of Invention. He made visitor 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 like the '90s, which aired in 2005.[9] He appeared as a tv 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 at the Barnyard,[9] and he made regular appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Chelsea Lately. As part of what Hardwick calls his "nerd media empire", he ran Nerdist Theater, an leisure house at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles.[14][15][16] He entered into an equity partnership with GeekChicDaily in June 2011[17] to kind Nerdist Industries.[18]

Hardwick revealed a self-help guide, The Nerdist Way: How to succeed in the subsequent Level (In Real Life), with Penguin Publishing, in late 2011. In February 2012, GeekChicDaily fully merged with Nerdist Industries and became Nerdist News, with Hardwick operating 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 enterprise.[20]

In February 2018, Hardwick announced that he could be rebranding The Nerdist Podcast to ID10T and that he can 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 in the Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd and Otis the Cow in the Barnyard sequence (originally voiced by Kevin James in the film Barnyard).

He offered the voice for Green Arrow/Oliver Queen on The Batman and Lego Dimensions, Glowface within the X's, and Sokka within the Legend of Korra,[22] as well as 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 function within the Borderlands 2 DLC Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary and in Borderlands 3.

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

Hosting[edit]

In 1993, Hardwick hosted the MTV sport show Trashed, wherein contestants would reply trivia questions or threat some of their belongings being destroyed.[23] From 1995 to 1998, he co-hosted with Jenny McCarthy the MTV relationship sport present Singled Out,[24] wherein the primary contestant selects from a pool of 50 people based on their attributes with out seeing them. While working on Singled Out, he met fellow MTV character Jacinda Barrett, to whom he turned engaged but by no means married. Later, he hosted the syndicated relationship show Shipmates.

From October by means of December 2007, Hardwick hosted the weekly series Wired Science on PBS, while writing for Wired journal. On June 7, 2009, he grew to become 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 one in all 2010's finest by The A.V. Club[26] and one among the 10 finest comedy podcasts by Rolling Stone.[27]

In May 2011, Hardwick signed a contract with BBC America to host a pilot of a panel talk present for the community primarily based on the podcast. The pilot 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 started hosting Talking Dead, a live half-hour (later expanded to 1 hour) aftershow to AMC's sequence The Walking Dead. Hardwick interviews celeb followers of The Walking Dead in addition to members of its cast and crew, interacts with the studio viewers, re-airs clips of the episode, performs video games with and polls the viewers by way of the Internet, and provides exclusive clips of the following episode. In August 2013, Hardwick started hosting Talking Bad, a stay half-hour (later expanded to at least one hour on the ultimate episode) speak present companion collection to the ultimate eight episodes of the AMC collection Breaking Bad.[quotation wanted] In February 2016, Hardwick began hosting Talking Saul, a reside one-hour discuss present companion collection to the season two premiere and finale of the AMC series Better Call Saul.

On December 24, 2011, BBC America aired The Nerdist: The Year in Review, a comedy special hosted by Hardwick in Los Angeles. In August 2012, he hosted a particular episode of The Nerdist on BBC America to "debate" the consequences of time and house with other buddies and movie star nerds. The episode was actually an effort to advertise the network's upcoming September 1 seventh-season premiere of the series Doctor Who.[citation needed]

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

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

Stand-up comedy[edit]

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

In 2004, Comedy Central used a few of his material for an animated series called Shorties Watchin' Shorties.[31][higher supply needed] In 2007, each his solo standup and duo act were featured on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death Ray. Hard 'n Phirm accomplished several songs for the 2009 Rob Zombie animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. Hardwick introduced plans to do a dwell stand-up album from his 2009 tour.[quotation needed] 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 show 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 source needed] The special aired on Comedy Central on November 10, 2012, and was properly obtained.[35] Extended and uncensored DVD, CD, and digital variations were launched January 22, 2013.[36][37]

Influences[edit]

Hardwick has said his influences embrace 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 "changed his alcoholism with workaholism".[41]

Relationships[edit]

Hardwick was previously engaged to model and actress Jacinda Barrett, and had a relationship with actress Andrea Savage. In 2004, he began a relationship actress and comic Janet Varney and they had been together for seven years till their separation in 2011.[42] Shortly after, he would go on thus far Chloe Dykstra (from late 2011 to July 2014).[43][44] He became engaged to model and actress Lydia Hearst on September 12, 2015,[45] and the two married on August 20, 2016, in Pasadena, California.[46] In August 2021, they announced that they were expecting their first child together.[47] On January 29, 2022, they announced the arrival of their daughter.[48]

Abuse allegation[edit]

Hardwick's ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra revealed 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 topic to career blacklisting in retaliation for ending the connection.[49][50] The essay did not title the abuser, but the timing and several other key details led readers to conclude it was Hardwick.[51] In response, Nerdist eliminated all mentions of Hardwick from its web site[52] while AMC announced that additional episodes of Talking with Chris Hardwick can be pulled. Hardwick also 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 complete investigation carried out alongside regulation agency Loeb & Loeb had didn't affirm Dykstra's allegations and that Hardwick would return as host of Talking Dead and Talking with Chris Hardwick. Their assertion read, "We take these matters very significantly and given the data out there to us after a very cautious assessment, together with interviews with numerous individuals, we consider returning Chris to work is the appropriate step."[55] Dykstra, who refused to cooperate within the investigation, said two days later on Twitter, "I chose to not participate within the investigation of the person I spoke of. I don't imagine in an eye for a watch." She also said that she "originally wrote her essay so she may transfer on with her life, and now she intends to take action".[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 identify was returned to Nerdist's webpage after their very own investigation.[58]

Discography[edit]

Horses and Grasses (2005)Mandroid (2012)Funcomfortable (2016)
Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

Video games[edit]

Awards and nominations[edit]

References[edit]

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