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.
I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don’t normally get to express.
I’ve seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show you how pervasive this stuff has become in our culture. It really is an ideology that you can subscribe to now.
I learned not to confuse ‘busy’ with ‘productive,’ but I’m still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.