Set List is an improvised stand-up show that originated in LA before touring the world and becoming an upcoming TV show in the UK and Australia, and now the show is premiering in the US as a web series on the Nerdist YouTube channel. Basically, each comedian comes out with no planned material and is given topics they must discuss as the show goes on. The first three episodes of the Set List web series debuted this week with Bob Odenkirk (above), T.J. Miller, and Glenn Wool (below) rising to the challenge. It's a unique concept for a stand-up show that often yields interesting results, and you no longer [...]
Comedian Matt Braunger (Up All Night, MADtv) launched a new podcast this week on Chris Hardwick's ever-expanding Nerdist Network. Braunger's show is called Ding-Donger with Matt Braunger, and it's pretty drastically different from any other podcast going right now. It's just Braunger talking and telling stories into a microphone for 15 minutes each week without any guests. "I'm not going to try to swoop in on the podcast game," Braunger explains in the inaugural episode. "I'm just trying to make one. If you like it, cool. If not, cool too." Braunger picked the name Ding-Donger because it rhymed with his name, and he says, "It's the sillest one [...]
Chris Hardwick might be the most popular nerd in America, which makes you wonder if that even qualifies him as a nerd anymore. Oh well, that’s a philosophical debate for another time.
As the creator and impresario behind Nerdist Industries, Hardwick lords over a digital nerd kingdom that began as a website, but has since expanded to a successful podcast network, YouTube channel, and production house, among other endeavors. He’s also an actor, writer, and television host extraordinaire, beginning with his run on MTV’s Singled Out to his current gig hosting Talking Dead on AMC. But first and foremost, Hardwick is a stand-up comic, and earlier this [...]
Here's StarTalk Neil deGrasse Tyson's new web show, which premiered this week on the Nerdist Network. It's based on Tyson's podcast of the same name and features a ton of comedians as guests, with Sarah Silverman and Jim Gaffigan slated to appear in the future. In this first episode, however, Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal, John Hodgman, and some astronaut in front of a live audience to educate them about space and to take their smartass questions.
For the past 15 years, Comedy Central’s half hour specials have showcased the future stars of standup. Looking back, the early years of Comedy Central Presents included memorable sets from the likes of Mitch Hedberg, Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Dane Cook and dozens more. Re-branded The Half Hour in 2012, the series continues to feature the best up-and-coming comics in the country.
For many comedians, it’s that history that makes doing a half hour special so significant. While a half hour may once have been a comic’s first major exposure, comedians now have many ways to build an audience. Almost everyone who taped a special this year does non-standup comedy as well, branching [...]
The Nerdist podcast just released its annual Stand-Up Cluster, a collection of performances from some of the best up-and-coming comedians. The medium of podcasting is so perfectly built for releasing stand-up that it's a wonder this yearly special and Put Your Hands Together are some of the only stand-up podcasts out there. Nerdist Stand-Up Clusters from previous years have featured the likes of Kumail Nanjiani, Pete Holmes, and Matt Braunger before they broke out. This year's special, which you can listen to here, features Ali Wong, Dan Telfer, Mark Little, Beth Stelling, Maronzio Vance, Aparna Nancherla, Ryan Singer, and Ron Funches, many of whom you'll hear of in [...]
The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We're here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. Also, we'll keep you posted on the offerings fromour very own podcast network. We hope to have your ears permanently plugged with the best in aural comedy.
Here's a new extended promo for Neil Patrick Harris's new web series "Neil's Puppet Dreams," which he's starring in for the Nerdist Channel on YouTube, with Brian Henson of The Jim Henson Company providing the puppets. The premise of the series is that Harris has an ailment that causes him to only be able to dream in puppets and trying to kick the illness. Neil's Puppet Dreams premieres on the Nerdist Channel a week from today on the 27th and should do a lot to raise awareness for Neil Patrick Harris's condition, whether he's faking it or not.
Jimmy Pardo, host of the Never Not Funny podcast, longtime Conan warm-up comic, and all-around good guy, has a new web series, Write Now!, debuting on the Nerdist Channel this week. Based on his popular live show of the same name, Write Now! sees Pardo assembling a group of professional comedy writers to write material for him live on stage, passing him index cards of jokes that he's seeing for the first time as he reads them. In the first episode, Pardo's guest writers are Frank Sebastiano (SNL), Laurie Kilmartin (Conan), and Ed Lee (Are You There, Chelsea?). Whoever writes the "Joke of the Night" wins $50. If [...]
The Nerdist Podcast Network has added another promising new show to its lineup. After launching a podcast hosted by Matt Braunger earlier this month, Nerdist launched one called The K Ohle with Kurt Braunohler today. Host Kurt Braunohler, comedy partner of Kristen Schaal and host of the now-defunct IFC game show Bunk, plans to switch the format of his show up week-to-week, unlike most podcasts. Future episode formats include "PETophilia" (centered on the discussion of pets and sharing of animal stories) and "Get Lost!" (in which Braunohler blindfolds his guest and drives them far away to guess where they are and how to get back). Braunohler has [...]
Comedy Central has ordered a pilot episode for a stand-up series based on Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani's wildly-popular, excellent live show The Meltdown. The Meltdown is a weekly stand-up showcase held at NerdMelt in Los Angeles since 2011, hosted by Ray and Nanjiani and produced by Emily V. Gordon, and it's easily the hottest stand-up show in town right now. The pilot is being directed by Lance Bangs and produced by Ben Stiller's company Red Hour. Head on over to The Meltdown Tumblr for info on how you can attend the taping on February 13th. Basing a stand-up TV show on a popular live stand-up show is [...]
The Nerdist YouTube network dropped a new web series today. Called "Neil's Puppet Dreams," it stars Neil Patrick Harris and a bunch of puppets. What more do you need than that?
Chris Hardwick's Nerdist YouTube channel continues to roll out fun new shows from beloved comedians. Here's the latest, Nerd Down & 10, from the Sklar Brothers, in which they break down the latest nerd and pop culture news in the style of sports shows like Pardon the Interruption, with their Sklabro County sidekick Dan Van Kirk correcting their mistakes in a Dickies-sponsored segment. This is coming hot on the heels of Nerdist's new shows, Write Now! with Jimmy Pardo and StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, both of which launched last week. Keep an eye out for more episodes of Nerd Down & 10 on the Nerdist Channel [...]
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