Chris Gethard, more so than any other late night host, is willing take risks. That includes letting his production staff shoot footage of him opening a jury summons less than a week before the return of The Chris Gethard Show LIVE tonight on TruTV.
That’s only on one reason why you should be watching TCGS. Seriously, catch it at 11PM tonight.
This Season of The Chris Gethard Show Will Get 10 More Episodes in Spring 2018 on TruTV
Or, as Gethard tweeted “The #ChrisGethardShow ’s inaugural season on @truTV has been extended by ten more episodes. Thanks to everyone who supports this show and refuses to let this ramshackle dream die.”
We like where TruTV is doubling down on their money.
Chris Gethard and company, as well as live callers, are underway with their election special marathon, back at their old public access home on MNN, that will run until 9PM PDT. It’s the start to plenty of much needed comedy coverage of the election that will happen today.
You can watch The Chris Gethard Election Day Special right here right now.
As part of making the rounds for his off-Broadway show, Career Suicide, Chris Gethard got to come on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Sadness and laughing about it threads through the interview while talking about Gethard’s Chris Gethard Show and this new solo show.
Also, it turns out Colbert and Gethard share in, albeit from different angles, one important, very specific sort of anxiety.
This is not some dumb alt comedy stunt. I. Want. To. Be. @KellyRipa ’s. Sidekick. For. Real. So. Bad. Dream job. #KellyAndGethard
Since the very sudden and public departure of Michael Strahan from Live! with Kelly and MIchael, there has been a void in the realm of morning television programming. There are rumors of names of who might sit beside Kelly Ripa going forward.
One of the more surprising names is Chris Gethard, host of the forward thinking talk show The Chris Gethard Show. Chris has opted to toss his own name in the hat for consideration.
In fact, earlier this week, Gethard typed out and posted the following in order to make his case to be a sidekick to Kelly Ripa.
*probably should say “now married”
No word has been given about where Gethard stands in the running to replace Strahan or how this would affect The Chris Gethard Show if he got the gig, but #KellyandGethard would likely bring a bunch of generations together that wouldn’t otherwise watch the same morning TV.
The Chris Gethard Show does things as differently as you can on television. From their set to the format of the show itself, Gethard bucks tradition on so many levels.
So, for his own reference, he tries looking into how a more normal television program is run through interning for a day at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Gethard finds out some shocking revelations in his time there in addition to finding out how awkward of an intern he is.
Even the most stubborn of kids might not hate eating vegetables quite like Connor Ratliff does. In Connor’s case, he’s a full grown adult and no one can tell him to eat his veggies or else.
Well, we guess his boss, Chris Gethard, can do that as a condition of interviewing one of Ratliff’s heroes, Tony Hale.
That’s exactly what happened and it’s even more surprising how much Connor can’t stand one of the most important parts of the food pyramid.
Ok 2016, keep it up.
Announced today, Chris Gethard and company have not only gotten a whole new batch of 10 episodes of The Chris Gethard Show ordered at Fusion, but they’ve got bumped up to a whole hour of airtime from the half-hour that they got in their first season.
This upgraded second season of The Chris Gethard Show is set to premiere this Spring and we can’t wait to see what crazy stuff Gethard will have up his sleeve and/or try to pull off and/or be completely blindsided by thanks to his staff now that they have an entire hour.
Connor Ratliff, who you’ve probably seen on The Chris Gethard Show or the great web series I’m Too Fragile For This, teamed up with another TCGS alum, Mikey Erg to make a collection of holiday music that isn’t worn down by religious traditions that come around this time of year, but is still very festive.
So, that project turned into a whole album, well a sort of a novella of an album as there are 8 songs spanning 12 minutes.
Still, The Spirit of Ratliff is pretty great and really hits a sweet spot of endearing and funny without going overboard like so much holiday music does. “No One Wants a Pizza on Christmas Day” is a perfect example of how Ratliff and Erg pull that off.
You can get Spirit of Ratliff off of Bandcamp for $7 and you should know that it’s actually a soundtrack to what will be an upcoming Xmas special with Connor.
Get a taste of that with the music video for XMAS is the BEST.
Gethard’s going from coast to coast, though he’s probably not doing as much as hitchhiking as he has done in the past.
The doozy of a first season of The Chris Gethard Show on Fusion has come to a close and rather than sit on his laurels and wait for a phone call, Chris Gethard is hitting the road. (By the way, you can watch the entire season on the show’s YouTube channel right here.)
If you’re wanting to see more of Chris Gethard soon and with certainty, you can catch Chris live all around North America over the next few months at these times and places below:
-9/19 Saturday – Eugene Mirman Fest @ Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY
-9/21 Monday – Career Suicide (Solo Show) with Laura Stevenson @ Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY
-9/30 Wednesday 7PM – Career Suicide (Solo Show) at JFL 42 @ Comedy Bar in Toronto, ON
-9/30 Wednesday 11PM – Career Suicide (Solo Show) at JFL 42 @ Rivoli in Toronto, ON
-10/1 Thursday 9PM – Career Suicide (Solo Show) at JFL 42 @ Rivoli in Toronto, ON
-10/1 Thursday 11PM – Career Suicide (Solo Show) at JFL 42 @ Comedy Bar in Toronto, ON
-10/2 Friday 7PM – Career Suicide (Solo Show) at JFL 42 @ Rivoli in Toronto, ON
-10/3 Saturday 9PM – Career Suicide (Solo Show) at JFL 42 @ Garrison in Toronto, ON
-10/3 Saturday MIDNIGHT – The Alternative Show with Andy Kindler at JFL 42 @ Royal Theater in Toronto, ON
-10/9 Friday – Trill Comedy Festival in Houston, TX
-10/15 Thursday – FSU-Club Down Under in Tallahassee, FL
-10/18 Sunday – Treasure Island Festival in San Francisco, CA
-10/22 Thursday 8PM – Sagher and Gethard @ UCB Chelsea in NYC, NY
-10-30-11/1 Halloween Weekend – The Fest in Gainesville, FL
-1/22/16-1/23/16 Friday and Saturday – Arlington Drafthouse w/guest Jo Firestone in Arlington, VA
Details and tickets can be found here.
The mystery cable network that might have just won the comedy lottery for The Chris Gethard Show is Fusion.
Last year, Gethard announced that he and his show were going to a cable network, though he wouldn’t say which one.
Now, Fusion has brought him into their fold, which is getting more and more impressive comedy-wise. No, You Shut Up! with Paul F. Tompkins, a docu-comedy special from Al Madrigal, and now, The Chris Gethard Show.
Gethard details more on the move from MNN to Fusion at Splitsider.
Tickets for San Francisco’s upcoming Outside Lands on Aug. 8th-10th are already sold out. So, if you were somehow able to get tickets or somehow able to get tickets now, be sure to catch the live comedy at The Barbary Comedy Tent.
You’ll get to catch:
Lewis Black
Aisha Tyler
Stars of Silicon Valley
Garfunkel & Oates
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
improv4humans with Matt Besser and guests Chris Gethard, Lauren Lapkus, and Seth Morris
Rory Albanese
Matt McCarthy
The Chris Gethard Show
Aparna Nancherla
Ali Mafi
That’s sounds pretty great to us and you should really look into to getting in somehow if you can.
The Chris Gethard Show To Continue Even Though Comedy Central Has Passed On It
Comedy Central has passed on picking up The Chris Gethard Show to series. This is unfortunate as we perhaps won’t get to see what TCGS did for a pilot, but Gethard says that other networks are interested and that “TCGS will end not when someone drops an axe on us, but when we want it to end. We will bring it to its conclusion on our own terms, the same way we’ve done every other step of this process.”
So despite the possibility of The Chris Gethard Show ending if it didn’t get picked up, we’re happy to hear that Gethard got his public access show made into a cable network pilot and especially that TCGS “…ain’t dead yet”
The Chris Gethard Show Will Return to Public Access in April Awaiting Decision From Comedy Central
The Chris Gethard Show has taped its pilot for Comedy Central and is now awaiting the final call from network brass as to whether to give the series a greenlight or not.
You’ll be happy to know that, in the interim, TCGS will return to doing regularly scheduled episodes on public access starting in April. Hopefully, they get the greenlight and there won’t be too much more gaps in not having new Gethard to watch.
The Chris Gethard Show Coming to The Bay Area To Put on Better Winter Olympics
Chris Gethard and company are coming to the West Coast finally and will be putting on their shenanigans Feb. 8th at the Eureka Theater after the start of The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
They promise a much better, more entertaining version of The Olympics and we have no doubt that Gethard will succeed.
There is no “if” to qualify here; just go.
Just when we thought were going to go crazy from hearing Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas everywhere, Chris Gethard and The Chris Gethard Show is just in time for his own song for the holiday season.
Enjoy F*@k Christmas, I Wish It Was Sandwich Night and happy holidays.
Details on The Chris Gethard Show Pilot for Comedy Central
A Q&A with Chris Gethard and company revealed some key details on the upcoming Comedy Central pilot for The Chris Gethard Show including the fact that he would love to fight Pete Holmes, it will be a half hour, it won’t be taped at MNN, show would hopefully air live, if the pilot isn’t picked up, then they’ll apparently wrap up TCGS for good, and more.
So, let’s cross our fingers or indulge whatever ritual you think maybe works to get this on the air (or if you’re a Comedy Central exec reading this, just make the appropriate call after the pilot to make sure it goes to series so The Chris Gethard Show can live on).
Riot LA Comedy Festival 2014 Passes Now on Sale
The Riot LA Comedy Festival was hands down one of the best big scale comedy events in LA in quite some time and we’re so glad that it’s finally coming back Jan. 9th-14th, 2014th.
Slated to perform are: The Chris Gethard Show, Todd Barry, Morgan Murphy, The Birthday Boys, Dana Gould, Jon Benjamin, Carmen Lynch, Kristen Schaal, Superego w/Paul F. Tompkins, Greg Fitzsimmons, Kurt Braunohler, Kyle Kinane, Tommy Johnagin, Dan St. Germain, Emily Heller, Eddie Pepitone, and Ron Funches just to start.
Passes are on sale soon and we suggest you get in on them as soon as you can.