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Christopher Ryan Hardwick[1] (born November 23, 1971) is an American comic, actor, tv and podcast host, writer, and producer.[2] He hosts Talking Dead, an hourlong aftershow on AMC affiliated with the network's zombie drama collection The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, in addition to Talking with Chris Hardwick, a present through which Hardwick interviews outstanding pop tradition figures, and The Wall, a plinko-impressed gameshow on NBC, Hardwick created Nerdist Industries, operator of the Nerdist Podcast Network and residence of his podcast The Nerdist Podcast, which later left the network 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-recreation show sequence on Comedy Central. In 2013, he hosted Talking Bad, a stay half-hour discuss present on AMC following the ultimate eight episodes of Breaking Bad. From 2016, he hosted Talking Saul for the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. He is also identified for performing with Mike Phirman within the musical comedy duo Hard 'n Phirm, as well as 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), an expert ten-pin bowler, and Sharon Hills (née Facente), a real estate agent in Pasadena, California.[4] His maternal grandfather was Italian-American, and opened a bowling alley where Hardwick's mother and father first met.[5] Hardwick was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic religion.[6] At age four, he met comedian Joan Rivers and so they became lifelong friends.[7] Hardwick grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, the place he was the 1983 Memphis City Junior High Chess Champion.[8] He later attended St. Benedict at Auburndale before shifting 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, the place 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 throughout the mid-1990s.[9] Within the fall of 1998, he starred in the UPN comedy Guys Like Us; the present aired 12 episodes before it was cancelled in January 1999.[12]

Hardwick appeared in Rob Zombie's horror movies House of 1000 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 film The Mother of Invention. He made guest appearances on such exhibits as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Married... with Children,[9] Boy Meets World[9] and Zoey 101, and was a guest commentator on VH1's I really 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 author for Wired (since 2007), wrote for Web Soup and Back on the Barnyard,[9] and he made common appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Chelsea Lately. As a part of what Hardwick calls his "nerd media empire", he ran Nerdist Theater, an entertainment space at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles.[14][15][16] He entered into an equity partnership with GeekChicDaily in June 2011[17] to form Nerdist Industries.[18]

Hardwick published a self-assist e-book, The Nerdist Way: How to reach the next Level (In Real Life), with Penguin Publishing, in late 2011. In February 2012, GeekChicDaily totally merged with Nerdist Industries and grew to become Nerdist News, with Hardwick working 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 introduced that he could be rebranding The Nerdist Podcast to ID10T and that he can be leaving Nerdist since the contract with Legendary got here to an finish in 2017.[21]

Voice-over work[edit]

Hardwick voiced Alexander Hamilton within the Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd and Otis the Cow within the Barnyard series (originally voiced by Kevin James in the movie Barnyard).

He supplied 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 sport 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 role 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 launched on the Nerdist podcast.

Hosting[edit]

In 1993, Hardwick hosted the MTV recreation present Trashed, through which contestants would answer trivia questions or danger a few of their belongings being destroyed.[23] From 1995 to 1998, he co-hosted with Jenny McCarthy the MTV dating sport show Singled Out,[24] by which the principle contestant selects from a pool of fifty people based mostly 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 dating show Shipmates.

From October by December 2007, Hardwick hosted the weekly sequence Wired Science on PBS, while writing for Wired magazine. On June 7, 2009, he turned the host of G4's Web Soup, a spinoff of E!'s The Soup. Hardwick had previously 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 every of 2010's finest by The A.V. Club[26] and one of the 10 greatest comedy podcasts by Rolling Stone.[27]

In May 2011, Hardwick signed a contract with BBC America to host a pilot of a panel discuss present for the community based on the podcast. The pilot also included Hardwick doing intros and outros for BBC America's new Saturday-night time Ministry of Laughs comedy block of Britcoms.[28]

In 2011, Hardwick began internet hosting Talking Dead, a live half-hour (later expanded to 1 hour) aftershow to AMC's series The Walking Dead. Hardwick interviews celebrity fans of The Walking Dead in addition to members of its solid and crew, interacts with the studio audience, re-airs clips of the episode, performs video games with and polls the viewers via the Internet, and affords exclusive clips of the subsequent episode. In August 2013, Hardwick started internet hosting Talking Bad, a dwell half-hour (later expanded to at least one hour on the ultimate episode) discuss present companion collection to the ultimate eight episodes of the AMC collection Breaking Bad.[citation wanted] In February 2016, Hardwick started internet hosting Talking Saul, a stay one-hour talk 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 particular 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 friends and superstar nerds. The episode was actually an effort to promote the community's upcoming September 1 seventh-season premiere of the series Doctor Who.[quotation wanted]

On April 30, 2013, Comedy Central introduced that Hardwick would host a half-hour comedic panel present known as @midnight with Chris Hardwick. Thomas Lennon and Robert 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, Art, Movie and Costume" section 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 particular Comedy Central Presents: Hard 'n Phirm premiered in January 2008.[30]

In 2004, Comedy Central used a few of his materials for an animated series referred to as Shorties Watchin' Shorties.[31][better supply needed] In 2007, both his solo standup and duo act have been featured on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death Ray. Hard 'n Phirm completed a number of songs for the 2009 Rob Zombie animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. Hardwick introduced plans to do a stay stand-up album from his 2009 tour.[quotation wanted] He has toured as a featured comedian 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 identical year, Hardwick carried out on the Comedy Central present The Benson Interruption.[12]

On February 17, 2012, Hardwick filmed Mandroid, his first one-hour stand-up particular for Comedy Central in New York City. Jonah Ray was his unaired opener.[34][higher supply needed] The particular aired on Comedy Central on November 10, 2012, and was properly received.[35] Extended and uncensored DVD, CD, and digital versions have been launched January 22, 2013.[36][37]

Influences[edit]

Hardwick has mentioned his influences include 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 mentioned that Hardwick "replaced his alcoholism with workaholism".[41]

Relationships[edit]

Hardwick was beforehand 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 to date Chloe Dykstra (from late 2011 to July 2014).[43][44] He grew to become engaged to model and actress Lydia Hearst on September 12, 2015,[45] and the 2 married on August 20, 2016, in Pasadena, California.[46] In August 2021, they announced that they have been expecting their first baby collectively.[47] On January 29, 2022, they introduced the arrival of their daughter.[48]

Abuse allegation[edit]

Hardwick's ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra published an essay on Medium on June 14, 2018, by which she alleged that she had been subjected to emotional and sexual abuse by an unnamed ex-boyfriend, and claimed that she was subject to profession blacklisting in retaliation for ending the connection.[49][50] The essay didn't title the abuser, however the timing and several key details led readers to conclude it was Hardwick.[51] In response, Nerdist removed all mentions of Hardwick from its webpage[52] while AMC introduced that further 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 announced that a complete investigation conducted alongside legislation firm Loeb & Loeb had did not confirm Dykstra's allegations and that Hardwick would return as host of Talking Dead and Talking with Chris Hardwick. Their assertion learn, "We take these matters very severely and given the data out there to us after a very careful assessment, together with interviews with numerous people, we believe returning Chris to work is the suitable step."[55] Dykstra, who refused to cooperate within the investigation, acknowledged two days later on Twitter, "I chose to not participate within the investigation of the individual I spoke of. I do not consider in a watch for an eye fixed." She additionally said that she "originally wrote her essay so she could transfer on together with her life, and now she intends to do so".[56] On July 31, 2018, NBC introduced that Hardwick would return as host of The Wall following its own investigation.[57] On August 10, 2018, his name was returned to Nerdist's webpage after their 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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"Lydia Hearst and Chris Hardwick Announce They're Expecting First Child Together". PopCulture.com. Retrieved three October 2021.^ "New human alert!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️Dimity Facente Hearst-Hardwick HAS ARRIVED TODAY❤️❤️❤️❤️ Lyds liked this image a lot she requested I put up it to let everybody know that she and child are doing nice! The expertise of watching Lydia undergo pregnancy and provides delivery to our candy little peanut was humbling and inspiring. She is an absolute warrior and I am grateful, blessed, and honored! The primary second seeing and listening to our baby in any case this time is indelibly imprinted onto my soul. Holy crap this complete process is amazing! Delivery was initially scheduled for Feb 9 but the child's improvement had plateaued, the placenta had hardened, her fluid reserves had been low, and she was breech so they took her out a wee bit early at simply over 37 weeks. Lyds is joyful, Dimity is perfect and I'm over the moon with love for the each of them.