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'The Chris Gethard Show' Is Offering Live Election Coverage

by | November 2nd, 2012

There's now hope for folks who are worried Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's election coverage will be too serious. Comedian Chris Gethard will be hosting a live election special on his silly New York public access program The Chris Gethard Show, beginning at noon EST on November 6th. The special will be streamed online, in addition to airing on public access station MNN4. If the Gethard Show election coverage is a big hit, maybe CNN will bring in a Human Fish to analyze Electoral College maps in 2016.

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Chris Gethard on The Chris Gethard Show: "a community center for this fucked up community of nerds"

by | August 18th, 2011

Over at Mediaite, Jon Bershad has a lovely, exhaustive interview with Chris Gethard about The Chris Gethard Show, currently airing on Manhattan Neighborhood Network. It will make you excited to get your own public access show, then spell out why only a few people (Gethard) are really cut out for it. "I guess I grew up listening to a lot of punk rock music and really having that sort of Do-It-Yourself thing ingrained in me," Gethard says. "Ever since I’ve been doing comedy, I’ve felt like the things that I respect the most are clearly the things where people are sort of boxing out their own corner of [...]

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You Don't Wanna Miss These Descriptions of The Chris Gethard Show

by | March 26th, 2012

Here are a few ways The Chris Gethard Show is described in this great love letter: "an anime nightmare," "a shambolically ambitious, oddly uplifting TV party," "a sort of free-form bullshit session" and "The Last Supper as painted by Sid and Marty Krofft." If you're still unconvinced by the show's magic, get ready to change your mind.

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Revisiting the SQUiRT TV Epilogue, Ten Years Later

by | January 2nd, 2012

Jake Fogelnest just posted to a his Tumblr a documentary he made for MTV back in 2005 about restarting SQUiRT TV, the public-access-turned-MTV show he hosted from his bedroom at 14. It features a whole bunch of funny people disappointing Jake, including Jimmy Fallon, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Richter, Rob Riggle, Horatio Sanz, and Sarah Silverman, and one person spraying him with Mace. And Friendster! Because it was 2005.

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