Whatever Happened to Chris Hardwick?

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Marc Maron , for good reason, gets most of the credit for popularizing the comedy podcast, but some may have forgotten that Chris Hardwick launched his Nerdist comedy podcast less than six months after WTF with Marc Maron . There was no rivalry between the two, nor any reason for one, but throughout much of the 2010s, they dominated the format much like Letterman and Leno dominated late-night talk shows in the ’90s.

Hardwick, however, is probably closer in personality to Jimmy Fallon: an excitable, enthusiastic fan of both comedy and nerdery who is effusive in praising his guests. Before the format became inundated with hundreds of other options, Maron and Hardwick were my main listens (outside of This America

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