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.
"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 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.
As regular fans of The Chris Gethard Show know, "Checking in With Alyssa" features call-ins from 16-year-old Alyssa. On this week's episode, though, Alyssa was in town, and Gethard put together a fantastically star-studded hour just for her, including visits from Joe Mande, CollegeHumor's Jeff Rubin, Grizz Chapman, 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon, Zachary Levi from Chuck, Jack McBrayer, and SNL's Bobby Moynihan. Oh, and a letter and Subway footlong from Jon Glaser of Delocated, a call-in from Seth Meyers on the west coast, and a video tour of Liz Lemon's office from Tina Fey (how awesome is it that there's a picture of Amy Poehler in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Comedian Chris Gethard's delightful, zany public access show The Chris Gethard Show is about to lose its studio for two months. Beginning in December, the Manhattan Neighborhood Network's studio will be renovating, and The Gethard Show needs your help finding a new place to film for the duration. If you have a studio/warehouse/giant empty space to offer up or suggest, head on over to the Gethard Show forums and do so. If you end up letting the show use your space, I'm sure you can negotiate to keep The Human Fish out if that's the biggest fear you have about the whole arrangement.
Comedian Chris Gethard is having Goosebumps author R.L. Stine join him tonight on his delightful public access show The Chris Gethard Show to help him write a book live on air. Along with fellow authors D.C. Pierson (The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To) and Dave Hill (Tasteful Nudes), Stine and Gethard (who is also an author) will be writing an entire book in one hour, tonight at 11PM EST live on the internet or on Manhattan Public Access. I wrote this paragraph in under an hour, and I’m just one man. Compared to that, four people writing a book in one hour sounds like no big [...]
There are about a million different ways to describe The Chris Gethard Show: it’s a viewer-run panel that doesn’t hesitate to cast complete strangers as regular on-air guests; It’s a weekly dance party-slash-costume ball that counts Bananaman, Flashing Glasses Guy and a giant bunny as regular attendees; It’s an exercise in diffusing the awkward moments that inevitably arise when fielding calls from crazies, comics, kids and characters. But mostly, it’s really, really fun.
A weekly public access call-in series described as “the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City,” The Chris Gethard Show got its start as a monthly, themed stage show at the UCB [...]
The Chris Gethard Show, which we followed for its cross-country road trip, is leaving the UCB Theater in New York to move to a grander stage: public access TV. Also, the internet, but by being live on public access they'll be able to do strange things involving the audience and run it like a call-in show. Sounds wonderfully insane.
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 [...]
Comedian Chris Gethard's nutty public access show will be broadcasting live election coverage all day, from noon to midnight EST, both streaming online (embedded here) and on the Manhattan TV station MNN4. Get ready for some seriously uninformed but fun political coverage, which should be a nice break from the mainstream media's the election reporting, which is not any fun outside of all the flashy graphics. The Chris Gethard Show's candidate Connor Ratliff will be in-house, and if the underdog pulls of an upset and beats favorites Obama and Romney, it'll make this episode of The Gethard Show pretty historic.
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.
If you've been watching The Chris Gethard Show on Wednesday nights (and you should be), then, like me, you undoubtedly fell in love with bubbly newcomer Gethie, The Chris Gethard Show mascot. Despite making a big splash at around minute 12:09, Gethie was sadly brutally stabbed on-air over money it owed some shady motherfucker.
