The Nerdist: Year in Review

I am happy to have found The Nerdist, a top ranked podcast site for everything nerdy. A complete heaven and a homey place to hang-out created by comedian, host, writer, and geek Chris Hardwick.

The Nerdist: Year In Review, the first of BBC America's five all new Nerdist Specials, is premiered before Christmas Eve. I was clueless to how the show will turn out but learning Wil Weaton, Simon Pegg, and David Tennant would be there, my geek sense started tingling. A must watch :)

Chris Hardwick opened the show with a stand-up comedy performance about geek-related topics. I'm very much glad I understood everything. Chris then introduced his co-host Matt Mira, Jonah Ray, and musician Mike Phirman.

An awesome semi-gay theme interview/skit with Simon Pegg in relation to the premiere of his recent movie, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol. After that, Wil Wheaton was welcomed by Chris in the show with a cool handshake-snap-snap-jump-woohoo they made probably way back when they were roommates.

Topics about Star Trek, Omnibot, and Wil's blogging and hobby of playing dungeons and dragons came around. Later on the show, Chris gave Wil a gift. Jokingly, Wil pointed the Omnibot, a co-host shouted Karen Gillian's underwear! Lols to that XD To reciprocate, seemingly unprepared, Wil reached in to his pocket and held out a 12-sided die and gave it to Chris. Meanwhile, the gift was opened and it was a Christmas walrus oven mitt the duo made for their Christmas tree way back in their college days. Nice bromance.

The show progresses with a topic to the best remake of a British TV show and a year in music segment by Nerdist Jonah Ray.

Guest Nathan Fillion is introduced to the show, talks about how he wanted to be in a lead role and made it in series Firefly (2002) and in Castle. Joss Whedon was mentioned for his Firefly and Jason Palmer's admirable illustrating skills.

Nathan praised Chris for making his Nerdist from podcast to television. And with that in mind, they made a serious prom pose but was really awkward to look at lols

Nerdist Kumail Nanjiani shared some thoughts to some awesome video games such as Batman: Arkham City, Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, and Portal 2.

One of my most anticipated portion of the show was Chris Hardwick's interview with David Tennant. They talked about his acting career, love to Doctor Who, how he became Barty Crouch Jr. from the Harry Potter Series, how he became the 10th Doctor and his casting to the movie, Fright Night. Click here for the complete unedited podcast from the nerdist. A must listen :)

The show ended by announcing the Nerdist of the Year. The long list came down jokingly to Isaac Newton and his Universal Law of Gravitation but later revealed singer Weird Al Yankovic declared the winner.

I really enjoy the show, I'm so listening to some podcasts at the nerdist and will be looking forward to the next episode this January 14, 2012 :)

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