For nearly a decade, comedian Chris Gethard has been doing weird, no-budget TV stuff for a small-yet-dedicated audience, but now TruTV’s The Chris Gethard Show is coming to an end. Gethard made the announcement himself in a lengthy Facebook post (seriously, it’s so long that you’ll have to click the link to read the…
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Chris Gethard has achieved the kind of ubiquity that’s rare in the American comedy landscape. For years, he’s mined the humor in supporting roles in everything from Parks And Recreation to Broad City, as well as turning in affecting performances in films like Don’t Think Twice. And it’s all delivered with the offbeat…
Earlier this week The A.V. Club premiered a video by Hiccup, a band that features members of The Chris Gethard Show’s house band The LLC, and today we’re bringing you another video but a TCGS-affiliated band, Early Riser. Kiri Oliver and Heidi Vanderlee play an active role in TCGS, forming a partnership that…
Fans of The Chris Gethard Show will likely recognize members of the new band Hiccup. Formed by Hallie Bulleit and Alex Clute—also known to fans of the show as Messenger Bag—the pair play in TCGS’ house band The LLC, where they compose songs seemingly on the fly for the late-night show. With the addition of drummer…
Superproducer Judd Apatow has yet another project, and this time it’s for the stage. Apatow will co-produce Chris Gethard’s off-Broadway debut, Chris Gethard: Career Suicide, a comedy about depression written and performed by Gethard. Before landing its off-Broadway run, the show originally ran in New York at the…
Comedian, actor, podcaster, and host of a Fusion show with his name in the title, Chris Gethard is a man of the people. On The Chris Gethard Show—a program that was entirely fan- and self-funded for a while—he fields calls while encircled by the audience, making himself part of the crowd rather than just the…
“I had been going through writers block since The Ergs!,” says Mikey Erg, who despite being named Mike Yannich, has kept his former band’s surname since its 2008 break-up. “I was talking to my friend Anika [Pyle] who played in that band Chumped, and she challenged me to a songwriting pact where each week we would send…
The Diddy Door has opened.
After literally being carried from public access to the Fusion network on the backs of his fans last spring, comedian Chris Gethard and his Chris Gethard Show will be sticking around for at least another year. According to a press release put out by the network, Fusion has picked up The Chris Gethard Show for a…
The future of TV talk shows has saved a piece of the format’s past: The Late Show With David Letterman set is safely in the hands of Fusion’s The Chris Gethard Show. Late Show’s reproductions of the Brooklyn Bridge and the George Washington Bridge were unveiled on the Gethard Show’s live stream this afternoon, serving…
You’d expect that the transition from UCB stage show to years on public-access TV to an actual network would water down the little talk show that could, but the jump to Fusion TV for The Chris Gethard Show wisely doesn’t polish things too much. It’s slightly jarring to see something as anarchic as the first episode on…
Chris Gethard is no stranger to neuroses and anxiety. The comedian/TV host/author has often talked about the various problems he’s faced in his own life in coping with difficulties and challenges posed by the world and his own inner demons. So what’s the best way to help others deal with their own worries? Simple—an…
In what we assume is a longstanding show business tradition that nobody has felt the need to talk about until now, comedian Chris Gethard has decided to let his fans carry him from his home to the studio of his new show on the Fusion network. You know, like, literally. Over the course of four miles (and two bridges),…
The Chris Gethard Show’s path to cable finally has a destination: A 10-episode run of the series will begin on Fusion in April. The move was announced during last night’s episode of TCGS, a public-access swan song with the appropriately unwieldy title “When Next You See Us We Will Be Standing Atop the Rubble Of The…
On May 13, 2014, Chris Gethard took to Tumblr to announce that Comedy Central would not be bringing the comedian’s eponymous public-access variety show to cable. At turns grateful, apologetic, and rousing, the note is infused with the spirit of “lose well,” a philosophy of embracing and moving past defeat that’s…
The Chris Gethard Show won’t be appearing on Comedy Central anytime soon. The network declined to pick up the show after ordering a pilot late last year. Gethard wrote a lengthy post about the whole thing on the show’s Tumblr, saying, unsurprisingly, that the move is “a huge bummer.” Gethard says he was “pretty…
Earlier this year, The A.V. Club told the world about the new stand-up album from comedian and TV personality Chris Gethard. Now, we’re letting New Jerseyans near and far check out a track from Gethard’s My Comedy Album, out April 22. “Mother’s Day” is below, and My Comedy Album can be pre-ordered via iTunes now.…
Since 2007, TV Club has dissected television episode by episode. Beginning this September, The A.V. Club will also step back to take a wider view in our new TV Reviews section. With pre-air reviews of new shows, returning favorites, and noteworthy finales, TV Reviews doesn’t replace TV Club—as usual, some shows will…
