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 On nights following The Colbert Report, Nerdist Industries founder / recovering Singled Out host Chris Hardwick builds a game show around The Internet and rounds up three well-known and/or up-and-coming comedians to play it. People who wretch at the idea of an "internet game show": This show actually gets The Internet. It's not treated as this tangible thing for people to play up/down to; it's merely a platform for Hardwick and his contestants to riff from, not unlike Tosh.0 (except far less mean-spirited). People who wretch at the mention of Chris Hardwick's name: The show isn't really dependent on his dorky, excitable sense of humor. While he's not above the use of a tired catchphrase ("INTERNETS," the final round being named "FTW"), or building the odd question around how much some people hate him (which, given his omnipresence around pop internet, can't necessarily be helped), he largely leaves the comedy to his contestants, bouncing off them when appropriate. As a result, the quality of the show depends less on Hardwick and more on the night's lineup. And so far, the lineups have ranged from solid to stellar. Last week's shows have included the likes of Kumail Nanjiani, Kyle Kinane, Andrew Daly (Eastbound and Down), June Diane Raphael (NTSF:SD:SUV::), Deon Cole (Conan O'Brien), James Adomain, and Thomas Lennon (who's also the co-executive producer of the series). This week's lineup is equally promising: quote:MONDAY 10/28: Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal, Doug Benson Once again, that's midnight ET/PT on Comedy Central, Mondays through Thursdays. If you set your DVR, be sure to have it record an extra minute over! DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Oct 30, 2013 |
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I love how cheap and broken the buzzers are and someone always gets screwed by them.
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Oct 29, 2013 22:09
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FateoMcSkippy posted:I love how cheap and broken the buzzers are and someone always gets screwed by them. Random Stranger posted:
Yeah, it sucked-- we got too little Eugene Mirman because of the buzzer issue last night. And while I enjoy Doug Benson, we had him as a guest last week. Let Eugene and Kristen shine. Well, Kristen did shine. She was hilarious, and looking fabulous to boot. I love this show. Mike Lawrence and Kyle Kinane are my favorite guests so far.
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Oct 29, 2013 22:12
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This show is surprisingly great so far. Agreed that the show is really well set up to actually allow the comedians on to actually be funny. Also love that it's the first tv show to really take advantage of how many great comedians have come up/come to prominence in the last few years based on the huge boom of interest in podcasts and 'alt'-comedy (gross term, but still applies). Just having Scott Aukerman, James Adomian, Andy Daly and Doug Benson on in the first few weeks is pretty huge.
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Oct 29, 2013 22:13
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FateoMcSkippy posted:I love how cheap and broken the buzzers are and someone always gets screwed by them. I've only seen the first episode and thought that it was due to the fact that Natasha was far funnier than Benson and Nanjiani, and they wanted the last segment to seem balanced.
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Oct 29, 2013 22:14
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GraPar posted:This show is surprisingly great so far. Agreed that the show is really well set up to actually allow the comedians on to actually be funny. Also love that it's the first tv show to really take advantage of how many great comedians have come up/come to prominence in the last few years based on the huge boom of interest in podcasts and 'alt'-comedy (gross term, but still applies). Just having Scott Aukerman, James Adomian, Andy Daly and Doug Benson on in the first few weeks is pretty huge. Eugene Mirman yelling that he's the only one without a podcast before fake-storming off the set last night was great.
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Oct 29, 2013 22:24
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If this show is actually good, my question becomes: Is it metahumor that they advertise this show with the same infuriating SCREAMING IN THE MIDDLE OF A COMMERCIAL BREAK ads that every other Hardwick show gets? Or do they not realize that those commercials are that annoying?
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Oct 29, 2013 22:34
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I'll bring a boat-load of friends to this thread!
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Oct 29, 2013 23:13
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BrooklynBruiser posted:I'll bring a boat-load of friends to this thread! That joke and Mike Lawrence's Brown v. Board of Education joke are the top two of the whole show, so far, I think. And the whole show is great, so that's saying something.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:18
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I caught this for the first time last night and it was surprisingly good.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:29
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This is a great concept and the comedians they've had on so far have nailed it.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:45
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I hate this show for making me not hate Chris Hardwick. It's really good, though. As long as they can keep up the quality of guests (and they should be able to, there's like a thousand quality comedians that all have podcasts to advertise and none of them have anything else to do), I'll stick around after Colbert for it.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:54
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If they ever talk Norm McDonald onto this show they'll have hit the high-water mark.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:59
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I don't get the Chris Hardwick hate, I like him. He seems like a decent human being on earth comparable to others. 9thing that this show is actually loving really good sometimes Kyle Kinane was loving great.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:05
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Hollis posted:I don't get the Chris Hardwick hate, I like him. He seems like a decent human being on earth comparable to others. I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes Chris Hardwick, although I'm probably the only person here that thinks he's dreamy. Kristen Schaal last night was amazing. I've never seen her doing her own stuff, just characters or Daily Show things. Also, if someone just described this show to me, I would probably not want to watch it. It's totally made by the chemistry between Hardwick and the guests.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:17
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Hollis posted:I don't get the Chris Hardwick hate, I like him. He seems like a decent human being on earth comparable to others. Overexposure, I guess. As far as I'm concerned he's fine, especially because so far he knows when to take a step back and let the "contestants" go. Also, seconding Norm McDonald. His style of humor would fit perfectly into a panel show like this.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:21
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Tupping Liberty posted:Kristen Schaal last night was amazing. I've never seen her doing her own stuff, just characters or Daily Show things. Her standup's funny but kinda polarizing. A lot of people really hated her last special.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:31
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I think Chris Hardwick is really funny but I think his other tv shows and his podcast are all bad so I can see how someone could not like him. I'm not even sure about his standup really, I just think he's a great podcast guest whenever he's on Doug Loves Movies or Comedy Bang Bang or whatnot.Tupping Liberty posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes Chris Hardwick, although I'm probably the only person here that thinks he's dreamy. I'll back you up on that, even though I'm not into dudes.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:33
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Tupping Liberty posted:although I'm probably the only person here that thinks he's dreamy. You're not. Also, I've liked his web content for a while (celebrity bowling is oddly enjoyable) but the whole talking adjective series is beyond the pale. It's mostly my inability to separate Hardwick the person/comedian from Hardwick the face of everything that is currently wrong with AMC, really.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:37
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Chris Hardwick is my current television boyfriend, he's cute as hell and 41!!! How can he be 41!!
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Oct 30, 2013 03:47
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Chris Hardwick completely owns. I've met him, he's really awesome and genuinely sweet in person.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:55
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Hollis posted:Chris Hardwick is my current television boyfriend, he's cute as hell and 41!!! How can he be 41!! Also disturbing, Joel McHale is 41.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:57
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It's almost like you don't turn into a withered sack of bones and dust immediately upon hitting 40!
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Oct 30, 2013 04:06
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Tupping Liberty posted:Also disturbing, Joel McHale is 41. Strange how you never see them in the same room 
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Oct 30, 2013 04:15
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I never had an opinion on Chris Hardwick until just recently-- I saw his special Mandroid and then saw him on Talking Bad. I think he's a funny comic and a likable guy.
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Oct 30, 2013 04:21
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Its totally jealous hate, just saying. I think he's funny, sometimes a little dickish but he is actually a complete loving nerd. Like he really is into everything that he promotes which is awesome as he's not just some mouthpiece.
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Oct 30, 2013 04:22
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Hollis posted:Its totally jealous hate, just saying. I think he's funny, sometimes a little dickish but he is actually a complete loving nerd. Like he really is into everything that he promotes which is awesome as he's not just some mouthpiece. This is totally idiotic, just saying. It's not "jealous hate", it's the fact that Chris Hardwick is the host of Talking Bad, Talking Dead, and probably a show called Talking Mad in the not-so-distant future. All of those shows are symptoms of the problem that AMC, a network which made some really great shows before tripping over its dick repeatedly in the past few years (The Killing, Rubicon, Comic Book Men, Low Winter Sun, Hell On Wheels, et cetera), has run out of ideas. It is reduced to fishing for residual ratings by having a guy talk to Marilyn Manson and Jack Osbourne for an hour. And Chris Hardwick is that guy. He is the face of the slow death of AMC. When people express their distaste for him, that is why. This show helps me hate him less, though, so that's nice.
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Oct 30, 2013 04:51
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Rubicon was awesome f you. < >Also I like how apparently The Killing is Chris Hardwick's fault.
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Oct 30, 2013 05:01
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Wow, Pat Oswald is short  and I did not know Bow Wow still had a career.
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Oct 30, 2013 05:03
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We should make a distinction between Chris Hardwick the host and Chris Hardwick the media mogul. Nerdist has proven to be an outstanding internet-entertainment-network-blog-podcast thing (what do we call these? I need to brush up on my web 2.0 lingo). He's nothing special of a host (and the main Nerdist podcast is usually garbage) but he directly supports a lot of crazy talented people (some of whom would probably be homeless otherwise  ).I can't hate him.
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Oct 30, 2013 05:07
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Patton Oswalt is killing it.
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Oct 30, 2013 05:08
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The Grimace posted:Patton Oswalt is killing it. Aquaman!
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Oct 30, 2013 05:10
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BigRed0427 posted:Aquaman! Garfield.
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Oct 30, 2013 05:10
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Rubicon was awesome f you. < At the time, I kind of liked it, but then it just ended without going anywhere and so I'm retroactively mad about it. Also, I just about choked on this apple when Patton Oswalt said Aquaman.
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Oct 30, 2013 05:11
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Jean Eric Burn posted:We should make a distinction between Chris Hardwick the host and Chris Hardwick the media mogul. Nerdist has proven to be an outstanding internet-entertainment-network-blog-podcast thing (what do we call these? I need to brush up on my web 2.0 lingo). He's nothing special of a host (and the main Nerdist podcast is usually garbage) but he directly supports a lot of crazy talented people (some of whom would probably be homeless otherwise If nothing else, he (and presumably Tom Lennon) know who to get to make this work, because it's been solid to amazing in terms of quality since its debut.
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Oct 30, 2013 05:12
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"So if she calls her vagina The Cheesecake Factory, then she wants to get hosed in her Denny's?" "NO NO NO NO...her Outback Steakhouse! \o/"
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Oct 30, 2013 05:12
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Is Patton Oswalt really that short? He looks Devito-sized next to those other two.
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Oct 30, 2013 05:14
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He's a tiny little dude.
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Oct 30, 2013 05:14
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comes along bort posted:He's a tiny little dude. He's the same height as his wife I think and his wife is of average height. I want to see a picture of him next to Brian Posehn, who is a giant.
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Making fun of Singled Out will never get old. Well it'll probably get old at some point.
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