Could the next Johnny Carson be a comedian from West Orange, New Jersey with two Morrissey tattoos? "I know that's an unrealistic goal," Chris Gethard tells Rolling Stone with a bemused smile. "Is it gonna happen? Probably not. But why not try to take over, see what happens?"
Gethard, 37, is the creator and host of The Chris Gethard Show (Tcgs). "It's a show named after a guy and that guy's not in control," he says on the talkshow's zany, clubhouse-like set. Rolling Stone followed the comedian for a week leading...
Gethard, 37, is the creator and host of The Chris Gethard Show (Tcgs). "It's a show named after a guy and that guy's not in control," he says on the talkshow's zany, clubhouse-like set. Rolling Stone followed the comedian for a week leading...
- 11/16/2017
- Rollingstone.com
On Thursday night, Chris Gethard is going back home.
Sure, home is a set at a Midtown Manhattan studio, made of leftover material from the set of David Letterman’s old show. Some of it’s been repurposed into The Diddy Door, a walkway reserved for Sean Combs.
“It’s oddly emotional for me to walk in and take a deep breath, because I always think about how for four years on public access, I did not have access to the trunk of my own car because it was full of our set,” Gethard said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “We’d have to show up, set it up, every week, knock it down every week, put it back in the trunk. The idea that we have a set now that’s a semi-permanent thing is just so mind blowing. It feels like an odd little victory.”
That set...
Sure, home is a set at a Midtown Manhattan studio, made of leftover material from the set of David Letterman’s old show. Some of it’s been repurposed into The Diddy Door, a walkway reserved for Sean Combs.
“It’s oddly emotional for me to walk in and take a deep breath, because I always think about how for four years on public access, I did not have access to the trunk of my own car because it was full of our set,” Gethard said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “We’d have to show up, set it up, every week, knock it down every week, put it back in the trunk. The idea that we have a set now that’s a semi-permanent thing is just so mind blowing. It feels like an odd little victory.”
That set...
- 8/3/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
It's Thursday night, and Chris Gethard has already broken his first pair of glasses of the evening. The audience in this midtown Manhattan broadcast studio are standing around a wrestling ring set up in the center of the room, cheering as loudly as they can. In one corner, a two-time world champion wrestler named Rhino circles the perimeter, his burly thighs rubbing together like two tan balloons. In the other is the 36-year-old comedian/talk-show host, unfazed by this behemoth of a man. Within seconds, the grappler has Gethard in the air,...
- 6/1/2016
- Rollingstone.com
One of the finest pilots to come out of this year's New York Television Festival stretches the "odd couple" setup as far as it will go. In Saving a Legend, created by Murf Meyer and James Chupka, an evangelical teenager decides to embark on a mission from God in order to redeem his washed-up porn star college roommate.
The protagonists of Saving a Legend are Freddie Legend, played by Meyer, and Luke, played by Griffin Newman. In the pilot, which aired at Nytvf, we see Freddie and Luke arriving at an unspectacular state school for very different reasons. Luke is there to redeem as many sinners as he can, while Freddie is taking advantage of the free tuition he received for being older than 40. Naturally, they are paired up as roommates, and the comedy flows from their ridiculous interactions with one another.
The core of Saving a Legend is the juxtaposition of its two leads,...
The protagonists of Saving a Legend are Freddie Legend, played by Meyer, and Luke, played by Griffin Newman. In the pilot, which aired at Nytvf, we see Freddie and Luke arriving at an unspectacular state school for very different reasons. Luke is there to redeem as many sinners as he can, while Freddie is taking advantage of the free tuition he received for being older than 40. Naturally, they are paired up as roommates, and the comedy flows from their ridiculous interactions with one another.
The core of Saving a Legend is the juxtaposition of its two leads,...
- 11/14/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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