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Watch "Set List" for YouTube Comedy Week

Beginning Sunday, May 19th, YouTube will be holding a seven-day comedy extravaganza, YouTube Comedy Week, featuring some of the best and brightest of internet funny-making. The Nerdist Channel is among the participants, and will be supplying premiere episodes of Set List. It’s “comedy without a net”: In each episode, comedians will be given topics via a screen behind them and will have to riff on said topic. No prep, no… more

Getting the Balance Right with Cirque du Soleil

In case you weren’t at SXSW and didn’t see the big #EVOKE event with Cirque du Soleil featuring our own Chris Hardwick, Nerdist News enlisted Meg Turney to delve behind… more

Posters for the Next Five Doctor Who Episodes

We’ve had three Doctor Who episodes so far and we now have the posters for the final five episodes of the season. The above is the poster for “Hide,” the… more

You Made It Weird #144: Live at the Troubadour!

YMIW LIVE FROM THE TROUBADOUR! Andy Richter! Nate Bargatze! Garfunkel and Oates! Chris Thayer! Zach Cregger! They’re all here, they all made it weird. It was incredible. Enjoy, everyone. Live… more
 

Oblivion Review: In the Far-Too-Distant Future

There really is nothing like the exhilaration of seeing a good science fiction movie in the theater, one that prods at your brain as much as it dazzles your eyes…. more

Braving the Post-Apocalypse with “Oblivion” Director Joseph Kosinski

Judging by television commercials alone, it seems like the world is going to hell in hand basket – or in the case of Joseph Kosinksi’s Oblivion, it already did. Part… more

Baymaggedon: Alamo Drafthouse Issues a Genius Press Release

Here at Nerdist Industries, we can often be overwhelmed by the abundance of press releases put into the world on a daily basis. Some of them are informative, some mildly… more
 

The Legacy Music Hour #129: Twilight Games

For Episode 129, Brent and Rob focus only on titles which were released the last year their respective consoles released licensed games, exploring the way composers approached working with old… more

Nickelodeon + Nostalgia = Artistic Gold

If you’re in the Los Angeles area (or environs) and were a child of the 80s and 90s, you’ll most certainly want to check out the new art exhibit opening… more

50 Years of Conan O’Brien: A Golden Birthday Extravaganza

Today is Conan O’Brien’s 50th birthday. Yes, our tall red-headed Hero of the Night is half a century old, and that means it’s as good a time as ever to… more