I’m your nerd host, Chris Hardwick
Nerdist is a place where we nerds come together and share the nerdery that we find. It's also my home to various elements of the Nerdist Empire. You might recognize me from TV. You don't realize that's where you know me from, but it is. You think you went to college with me or I look like your cousin's friend, but that is not the case. At one time or another you stumbled upon me on your moving picture box in such cerebral gems as MTV's "Singled Out" and Noam Chomsky's "Shipmates." and so much more...
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Firsties!!!
Ah dang it Well Nexties!!!!
Done created something new
Rats. And here I thought it was Michael McDonald (the singer).
My eyebrows shot up when I saw that this morning. They came back down after hearing the intro.
Fun episode. The masturbating to small talk improv bit sounded hilarious, even if it was a visual.
Insert joke about this being the musician and not the comedian…
“I would rather listen to Fran Drescher for eight hours than have to listen to Michael McDonald. Nothing against him, but if I hear ‘Yah Mo B There’ one more time, I’m gonna ‘yah mo’ burn this place to the ground!”
He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don’t see
Tryin’ hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life
She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize…
It never really was
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He’s watching her go
But what a fool believes … he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems … to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him …
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/doobi
Speaking of Michael McDonald and comedians, here’s Billy Crystal at his hottest and using a gun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xetxYwyak
Poor guy probably gets this crap all the time. He should change his name to something unique so that he’ll never be confused with anyone else. Like Ronald. Or Old.
@Doc – So long as he doesn’t change his name to “Michael Bolton,” ‘cuz “he’s the one who sucks!”
I will say the obvious; “look what i can do!” the funniest skit i saw him do on madtv was with stephanie weir and they were at a party and forced to sit outside. stephanie had no hair and she says, “this is hardly your picture any longer” as willem dafoe. made me laugh outloud. and made Michael break. such a good skit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0rXWggdSJU
Definitey come to DragonCon! It is rather amazing!
There’s a word for “exclamation point/question mark”. It’s “Interrobang” and it looks like this:
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang
woops. Better link the English page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang
While Matt’s troubleshooting Michael’s iPhone, could you guys try out Apple’s new “podcasts” app for a second? I figure Nerdist’s position at the three-way intersection of podcasting, Apple, and comedy should enable you record a quick hostful and let the rest of us in on what has to be an elaborate joke app while iOS is rebooting.
I didn’t even know there was a singer with the same name. Always been a fan of MadTV.
One of my favorite sketch’s from Michael Macdonald was the angry movie guy.