Chris Hardwick: Mandroid (2012)

The Nerdist himself, Chris Hardwick, celebrates all things nerdy in his first Comedy Central special. Hipsters beware: there is no irony in Chris’s affinity for Captain Picard, Comic-Con and the Atari 2600. Mandroid features candid tales that cover virginity, chess club, shark vaginas, awkward childhood, awkward adulthood (which in his case is an extension of childhood) and a myriad of other topics which may or may not include Quidditch. This extended and uncensored DVD is a wonderland of discovery, and if you take but one life lesson from it, let it be “Don’t f**k animals.” geek joke, kinda boring.[The best line of the entire special is a throwaway reference at the end of a segment about the proliferation of ghost-hunting TV shows, as Hardwick wonders, “Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them?”]