Chris Gethard and the group of weirdos and outcasts that participate in his cable access talk show/experiment The Chris Gethard Show love stunts, and they especially love stunts that put Chris in humiliating, dangerous or painful situations. So it's only natural that before the show sets up shop and performs at Bonnaroo this summer, Gethard is going to try to make it from LA to the festival in Tennessee with no money and no phone, relying entirely on strangers from the internet to help and/or hurt him. The whole thing will be taped, with daily updates on Geth's journey to be uploaded to the official Bonnaroo YouTube [...]
In today's brand-new episode of Hitchin' a Ride, John Murray of 30 Rock/UCB heads deep into Queens to pick up Chris Gethard from his apartment to give him a lift to his pickup basketball game. Along the way, they have a chance to talk about The Chris Gethard Show, hit the carwash, and see what two small, white, nerdy comedians look like when they play basketball together. It ain't pretty.
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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.
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.
Above, the conclusion of the mutiny that was discussed here.
Yesterday was an illustration of how sad and desperate America can be.
We had a very late night that involved Don and Will driving as the rest of us slept. I woke up to the sound of both of them losing their minds. I guess they’d found a WalMart on Google and spent an hour in the middle of the night driving to it only to find that it no longer existed. Then, they went to an RV park that was closed as well. I heard Fanelli screaming his guttural Jersey scream as he lost all hope. It [...]
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.
Chris Gethard of public access television's The Chris Gethard Show has written a book called A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure, set for release Jan. 10. It includes such tales as "his volunteering for the 'Scared Straight' program (resulting in inmates openly threatening to rape him) or his horrendously botched attempt to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a pro wrestler. Or the time he instigated a high-speed chase with a New Jersey State Trooper." Oh boy. I'd say hitting that pre-order button is a good idea you're about to do. (Sorry.)
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 [...]
Hello! Sorry that I didn’t check in on Friday. Especially after I explicitly said I was going to. I didn’t mean to scare anybody. I realize that just not writing anything after I said I would is not cool. It invites people to think that after making it all the way across the country I died in some tragic but sort of romantic and symbolic end to my journey. And by journey I mean both RV trip and life as a whole. Not the case. Again, my bad.
The reason this update is coming late is two-fold. First off, I needed to sleep. Like, so bad. I’ve never needed [...]
This morning I climbed to the bottom of an immense canyon and hiked alongside the Rio Grande. Eventually, I came upon a hot spring, where I disrobed completely. Also sitting inside the hot spring was a man named Derek whom I had only met while inside the aforementioned hot spring. Derek told me that his life was completely solitary; that he dabbled in logging, but his main trade was packing elk. When I asked what that entailed, he explained that he didn’t kill the animals, but his job was to find their carcasses where other hunters had left them so he could skin and butcher them for transport. I nodded [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chris Gethard is moving his show from the stage at UCB in NYC to public access TV and the internet, starting tonight. The first live-broadcast episode of The Chris Gethard Show hits tonight at 11pm. I have no idea what they've got planned, but I assume it involves degrading Chris somehow. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
I can’t tell you where I stayed last night. I can’t tell you whose property it is, or how we came to be invited to stay here. What I can tell you is that it is the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s a sprawling, landscaped property sitting on a cliff above the Pacific, and its floor to ceiling windows show that off in a way that I really can’t describe, because I’m not a good enough writer or a happy enough person to verbalize beauty of this caliber.
When we arrived here last night, it felt like a victory. To sleep in a [...]
