Chris Hardwick Quotes

I don't write jokes first. I write down topics. I think of what I want to talk about, and then I write the jokes - they don't write me... And even if you don't think it's funny, you won't think it's boring. You might disagree, but you'll listen. And maybe even laugh as you disagree.

On Twitter, I just want to make you laugh at all costs.

I write my own tweets.

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

'Playing House' works because we're being supremely honest to what we think is funny and not what we think other people think is funny.

You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.

No one wants to follow someone fake or boring. Being accessible on social media, being honest, and having fun with it is key.

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.

People paused to listen to Denise Chávez and she had them - with gum on her shoes, she had them. She said she stepped on gum when she came up to the stage and she couldn't move, so she had to stay in one spot otherwise people would see the Chiclet.

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.

There's a lot of guys up there who like wearing a suit or try doing jokes that they think will play to a certain crowd, or maybe get them corporate work. I've always written jokes that I would want to hear. So, I'm trying to entertain myself more than anything.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which I thought was really fun. That's kind of the road I've taken. Every now and then, something comes into your mind and you put it out there. It's very innocuous. I think it's kind of fun.

I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.