Here's this week's episode of comedian Chris Gethard's nutty public access/web show The Chris Gethard Show with super special guest Amy Poehler joining the gang for the full hour in a show that involves them predicting strangers' futures because that's what public access TV is for.
Zach Galifianakis was the guest on Wednesday night's episode of comedian Chris Gethard's self-titled public access/web show. You can watch the entire episode, which involved Gethard, Galifianakis, and company giving strangers haircuts live on air, above.
A high school student was forbidden from using a quote from comedian Chris Gethard in her high school yearbook because his last name spells out the words "get hard," so Gethard visited her to get to the bottom of things right in this video for the IFC network's adopted comic program. Unfortunately, the video doesn't conclude with Gethard ambushing the high school yearbook teacher with a camera crew to discuss the injustice, but hopefully, somebody will set said teacher straight someday.
Here's the latest episode of filmmaker Scott Moran's PBS documentary web series Modern Comedian, in which he follows comedian/author/public access host Chris Gethard around with a camera for a day. It's an in-depth, serious look at what The Chris Gethard Show means to its fans and to Gethard himself. The only thing it's lacking is some deep introspection from the Human Fish.
Here's comedian Chris Gethard's latest video as part of IFC's Adopt-A-Comic series, in which he and old friend Bobby Moynihan (SNL) work towards Gethard's goal of appearing in the upcoming Alf reboot movie. Gethard and Moynihan save the studio making the Alf movie a lot of time and money by basically writing the whole thing for them out loud, and they definitely deserve a cut of the massive profits if and when this Alf movie gets made – whether they're involved or not – because it's going to be hard to separate this Alf project from the pure artistic vision of the character they lay out in this video.
This Thursday at 7pm at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe here in NYC Splitsider is presenting a super fun panel featuring some of our very favorite NYC comedians. Laugh Track: Unconventional Comedy Careers in the Internet Age will feature myself talking to Chris Gethard (The Chris Gethard Show, A Bad Idea I'm About to Do), Julie Klausner (How Was Your Week, Art Girls Are Easy, I Don't Care About Your Band), and Dave Hill (Dave Hill's Podcasting Incident, Tasteful Nudes) about how they've each carved out totally unique niches for themselves in the comedy world, making careers centered around their own comedic [...]
Comedian Chris Gethard's public access show has a big-time movie star dropping by this week: Zach Galifianakis. Gethard announced on The Chris Gethard Show's blog that the show will be handing out free haircuts on-air this week, despite the fact that nobody on the show knows how to cut hair, and that Galifianakis will be cutting strangers' hair right alongside Gethard and the rest of the gang. The show airs tomorrow at 11pm eastern online or on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. It's really impressive and a testament to the strength and inventiveness of The Chris Gethard Show that they were able to book one of the biggest movie [...]
In December, the IFC network's adopted comic Chris Gethard promised to send an autographed headshot with an irrelevant movie quote to anyone who emails him, and he's regretting it now. Here's a follow-up video IFC just released, showing Gethard really sad and defeated as he has to actually write hundreds of movie quotes on his old headshots and send them out to people. Please stop emailing him, it doesn't look like he can take much more.
Last week, comedian Chris Gethard told his fans that if they helped his public access program The Chris Gethard Show become the #1 video comedy podcast on iTunes, he'd host this week's show while doing algebra, listening to "Gangnam Style" on a loop, and being slapped in the face – all with an ice pack down his pants. Gethard's fans achieved that goal in a single day, causing him to up the ante. Gethard has now promised that if the show becomes the #1 overall video podcast, on top of all that other stuff, he'll do the show with his face painted (without looking at how his [...]
Here's IFC's adopted comic Chris Gethard going around, trying to get his autographed headshot hung up in a series of diners but to no avail, which leads him to give a shoe warehouse and "a weird, closed-down miniature golf place" a shot. I've definitely seen far-less-successful actors than Gethard with their photos hung up in crappy restaurants. Maybe he's being too ambitious with his diner selection. Either way, Gethard will have no trouble getting his photo hung up in even the world's loftiest diners once this IFC Adopt-A-Comic program kicks into high gear and gets him all the fame and riches he expects it will. Then, he can afford [...]
The Chris Gethard Show has booked another famous comedy guest. Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler will be dropping by the show for this Wednesday's installment, which airs online and on New York public access via the Manhattan Neighborhood Network at 11pm Eastern. Poehler is the second big name guest in a row for comedian Chris Gethard's web/public access show, following an appearance by Zach Galifianakis last week that featured Galifianakis spending most of the episode cutting strangers' hairs live on air alongside Gethard. The Amy Poehler episode this week will involve Poehler and the panel predicting callers' futures. I can't think of anyone better suited [...]
Here's a new video from IFC's Chris Gethard, explaining how his small speaking role in Iron Man 3 was cut and he made this funny video to prevent himself from losing his mind. The movie's release is still four days away, so it's not too late to start an internet campaign to get the footage put back in, right?
"Put my show on at 2 in the morning. We'll be the cheapest show to produce. Some cable network: Put us on at 2 a.m. Give us almost no money. It'll still be more money than we get on public access. Let us take a chance on this idea that if we create this completely interactive show, that people really feel like is theirs, that it will click. It will click in the way that things on the Internet click. That's what I want to say to TV development people … 'You shouldn't be scared of this thing. What you should be scared of is the Internet killing your medium. [...]
There's been a debate raging across the internet this weekend about the UCBeast Theatre in New York's practice of not paying stand-ups who perform there. The whole thing started last month when comedian Kurt Metzger, in his words, "trashed UCBeast" on Facebook for not paying comedians for a sold-out $10 dollar-a-head stand-up show called "If You Build It." Here's some of Metzger's Facebook musings:
"So last week I trashed UCBeast for packing a 120 seat theater at 10 bucks a head for a standup show in NY on a Saturday night, and then not having the decency God gave Jerry Sandusky to peel the performers off a twenty. I'll [...]
