Mainstream culture is like your mom: It’s always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.
When I was younger, my parents used to say, “Trust us on this. We have more experience than you.” And I was like, “Shut up, you don’t know anything!” But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they’d experienced more things.
Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.
You walk into a strip club with a wad of cash; they all flock around you. Strippers are just pigeons with tits. They go where the bread is.
Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.
If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life’s metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we’re programming for.
There’s a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.
A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.
I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you’re isolated, so you have time.
I’ve been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.
I’ve gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.
If I wasn’t acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.
In the ’90s, you couldn’t say the word ‘nerd’ to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn’t have listened.
It’s funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked ‘Doctor Who,’ I didn’t realize how deep the fan base was.
I don’t know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.
I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.