I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?

My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.

Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.