Now that San Diego Comic-Con has turned into an overcrowded marketing festival, there’s no easy way for nerdy celebrities to take part in the nerdy fun. Any moderately famous person who steps onto the main floor at Comic-Con runs the risk of being swarmed by fans demanding signatures, selfies, and who knows what else.…

Former MythBuster co-host Adam Savage is out on the road as half of the Brain Candy Live! team, criss-crossing the country informing audiences about the properties of air—from its movements to its sounds and weight. If that doesn’t sound interesting to you, give it a shot, because delivered by Savage and his partner,…

We all know that “in space, no one can hear you scream,” but what we don’t know—or what hasn’t been all that accurately depicted on film—is how someone would actually die were they just to float off into space. We caught up with Adam Savage at a recent Brain Candy Live! show to investigate just that. While the former …

In his role as emcee of all things geeky, former Mythbuster/current Tested host Adam Savage released a new video of his visit to the props department of the upcoming Ghost In The Shell live action adaptation. The film’s impressive props were created by Weta Workshop, the New Zealand company famous for its work on the …

Former MythBuster Adam Savage is both a noted Star Wars fan and Chewbacca cosplayer. So for the latest video in his One Day Builds series on the Tested YouTube channel, he decided to offer instructions on how to make a pitch-perfect replica of Chewbacca’s bandolier and purse. Savage previously made his own bandolier…

If there’s anything former Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage loves more than busting myths and walking around comic book conventions in ridiculously elaborate costumes, it’s movie props. We’ve covered his affection for that awesome gun in Blade Runner, his recreation of the Shining maze, and an enormous steampunk-y Hellboy glove

Earlier this year, we learned that the Science Channel was reanimating the corpse of MythBusters for a competition series that revolves around finding new hosts for a reboot. Now, Entertainment Weekly has released a trailer for this enterprise, which is called MythBusters: The Search. It features 10 people vying for…

At San Diego Comic Con earlier this year, cosplay devotee and former Mythbusters host Adam Savage paraded around as the bear from The Revenant, dragging a fake Leo DiCaprio carcass alongside him. For the New York gathering, he went as a much sweeter fuzzy creature. Savage walked the floor as Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved…

Adam Savage, erstwhile co-host of MythBusters and forever king of the nerds, lived up to his awesome surname at San Diego Comic-Con 2016. As his fans know, the famed model builder is also way, way into cosplay. In fact, it’s one of his annual traditions to do an “incognito walk” through the Comic-Con floor, mingling…

There are certain advantages to being Adam Savage, the genial MythBusters co-host and model builder. For one thing, Savage is allowed access to some incredibly valuable and rare props from movie history. In a recent episode of the Tested webseries, Savage visits the home of a private collector named Dan Lanigan, who…

MythBusters superfans have no doubt been disappointed to hear that their beloved Discovery Channel show is ending its 13-year run at the end of this upcoming season. Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have promised the last episode will be a worthy send-off with “an emphasis on looking back.” And now Savage is…

Having completed their quest and busted all known myths (including those based on Indiana Jones, Breaking Bad, and The Simpsons), Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from MythBusters will be hanging up the walrus mustache and crash test dummy for good after the show’s next season. That comes from Entertainment Weekly, which…

Every year, Adam Savage takes an incognito pilgrimage through the halls of Comic-Con, hidden in the crowd waiting for people to realize it’s him. Real astronaut Chris Hadfield joined him this year to cosplay as fake astronauts from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But these are no ordinary costumes—last year Savage had some…

Even if the pair’s definition of the word “myth” has drifted a bit over the course of a dozen years on the air, MythBusters’ Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage haven’t lost their sense of spectacle. Although the Discovery Channel show now centers less on urban legends or rumors, and more on replicating things that happened…

Tested has posted another episode of Adam Savage’s One Day Builds, and it’s a nifty one. Clocking in at over an hour, the video of Savage’s latest build sees the Mythbusters star joined Aaron Douglas, Battlestar Galactica’s Chief Tyrol. They spend the time assembling Cylon and Raider model kits, with Savage lending…

A couple of weeks ago, Tested put up a video of Mythbusters’ Adam Savage painstakingly recreating the hedge maze model from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The video is nearly a half-hour long, but still doesn’t capture many aspects of the project.

Some people go to exhibits and enjoy the show, the items on display, and the artistry at work. Adam Savage attended the Kubrick traveling exhibit and found a huge flaw.

At the end of 2014, The A.V. Club asked writers, directors, actors, musicians, comedians, and gadabouts what piece of pop culture they liked the most in 2014, with two pieces coming out of that query. At that same time, we also asked them what entertainment they were most excited for in 2015. The first half of those…

While the A.V. Club staff gets to weigh in about what movies, TV, music, and more we liked this year, we’d be fools to think that anyone really cares what we think. After all, we’re not famous. That’s why we asked a bunch of our favorite actors, musicians, podcasters, comedians, actors, and showrunners what piece of…