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In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

Alcohol is like pouring smiles on your brain.

I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.

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

My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.

When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.

I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

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

I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

You don't have to believe everything you think."
- Chris Hardwick, "The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

It's so much easier to give advice than to take it.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

Are you a passenger on a ghost ship or are you the pilot?

It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was.

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?

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

I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.

There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

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.

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

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

You walk into a strip club with a wad of cash; they all flock around you. Strippers are just pigeons with tits. They go where the bread is.

by structuring it in your life as a musical diary or log, you can control your feelings and change them on a dime if you need to.

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.

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

We're gonna have fun, god***it!

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

I honestly think hipsters eat with their assholes because they consume everything wrong.

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.

Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

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.

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

I'm just gonna do a podcast because it's mine, I can control it, I have complete responsibility over it, and no one can touch it.

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

The thing about hipsters is that they take very seriously trying to make themselves look like they don't take themselves seriously.

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

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

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

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.

I began to more fully embrace the trying of new skills when I asked myself, Would I rather protect my ego or do stuff in life?

Stand-up for me is usually a weekend thing. I go out of town and just do it.

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

There's not many a man who would get shot and then come visit the family responsible.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

People LOVE giving bad news. They love it. This is because negative information GREATLY empowers the giver and makes them feel important.

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

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.

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

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

I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.