Christopher Ryan Hardwick was born on November 23,1971 and is an American comedian, actor, television and podcast host, writer, and producer.
37 Facts About Chris Hardwick
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Chris Hardwick's podcast has broadcast 1,000 episodes as of December 2019.
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Chris Hardwick is known for performing with Mike Phirman in 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 at the Barnyard.
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Christopher Ryan Hardwick was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 23,1971, the son of Billy Hardwick, a professional ten-pin bowler, and Sharon Hills, a real estate agent in Pasadena, California.
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Chris Hardwick later attended St Benedict at Auburndale before moving to Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado, and spent his senior year at Loyola High School in Los Angeles.
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Chris Hardwick studied philosophy at UCLA, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity during his freshman year and graduated in 1993.
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Chris Hardwick was roommates with Wil Wheaton, whom he had met at a screening of Arachnophobia in Burbank, California.
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Chris Hardwick was a DJ on Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM during the mid-1990s.
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Chris Hardwick appeared in Rob Zombie's horror films House of 1000 Corpses and Halloween II.
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Chris Hardwick made a small appearance in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
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Chris Hardwick made guest appearances on such shows as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Married.
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Chris Hardwick appeared as a television host on hip hop group Little Brother's 2005 album, The Minstrel Show.
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Chris Hardwick is a contributing writer for Wired, wrote for Web Soup and Back at the Barnyard, and he made regular appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Chelsea Lately.
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Chris Hardwick entered into an equity partnership with GeekChicDaily in June 2011 to form Nerdist Industries.
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Chris Hardwick published a self-help book, The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level, with Penguin Publishing, in late 2011.
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In February 2012, GeekChicDaily fully merged with Nerdist Industries and became Nerdist News, with Chris Hardwick operating as Chief Creative Officer.
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Chris Hardwick was given the title of co-president of Legendary's digital business.
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In February 2018, Chris Hardwick announced that he would be rebranding The Nerdist Podcast to ID10T and that he would be leaving Nerdist since the contract with Legendary came to an end in 2017.
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Chris Hardwick voiced Alexander Hamilton in The Radio Adventures of Dr Floyd and Otis the Cow in the Barnyard series.
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Chris Hardwick voiced the character Vaughn in Telltale Games's Tales from the Borderlands, reprising his role in the Borderlands 2 DLC Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary and in Borderlands 3.
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In 2017, Chris Hardwick guest-voiced the villain Klaxxon for a special episode of Futurama released on the Nerdist podcast.
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In 1993, Chris Hardwick hosted the MTV game show Trashed, in which contestants would answer trivia questions or risk some of their belongings being destroyed.
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From October through December 2007, Chris Hardwick hosted the weekly series Wired Science on PBS, while writing for Wired magazine.
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Since February 2010, Chris Hardwick has been producing the "Nerdist" podcast, which he hosts with Jonah Ray and Matt Mira.
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In May 2011, Chris Hardwick signed a contract with BBC America to host a pilot of a panel talk show for the network based on the podcast.
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The pilot included Chris Hardwick doing intros and outros for BBC America's new Saturday-night Ministry of Laughs comedy block of Britcoms.
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In 2011, Chris Hardwick began hosting Talking Dead, a live half-hour aftershow to AMC's series The Walking Dead.
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In February 2016, Chris Hardwick began hosting Talking Saul, a live one-hour talk show companion series to the season two premiere and finale of the AMC series Better Call Saul.
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Chris Hardwick is a stand-up comedian 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.
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Chris Hardwick announced plans to do a live stand-up album from his 2009 tour.
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Chris Hardwick has toured as a featured comedian for Joel McHale.
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On February 17,2012, Chris Hardwick filmed Mandroid, his first one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central in New York City.
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Chris Hardwick has said his influences include Steve Martin, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Hicks, Emo Philips, and Bill Cosby.
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Chris Hardwick was previously engaged to model and actress Jacinda Barrett, and had a relationship with actress Andrea Savage.
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Chris Hardwick became engaged to model and actress Lydia Hearst on September 12,2015, and the two married on August 20,2016, in Pasadena, California.
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Chris Hardwick is a recovering alcoholic and says he has been sober since October 2003.
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Chris Hardwick stepped away from moderating all AMC and BBC America panels at San Diego Comic-Con.