The Chris Gethard Show is, according to its website, “the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City.” After starting off as a live show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, the show moved to cable access on June 22, 2011. It is a call-in and variety show hosted by Chris Gethard that airs every Wednesday night at 11:00PM on MNN and on a live stream at the show’s website. The Public access television show is written and produced by Noah Forman, Dru Johnston, J.D. Amato and Chris Gethard. It is directed by J.D. Amato. The show, known for its "no cool kids" atmosphere, has been called "oddly uplifting", a "cult hit," "an often riveting experiment in seat-of-your-pants broadcasting," and has gained viewers from around the world.
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Episode 1
The first episode was a rocky episode. The beginning of a very wild ride.
Episode 2
The second episode. After being shut out of having any prep time, we just took calls - and realized that calls could be the basis for the whole show and we were way over thinking things.
Episode 3
Shirtless Fanelli. A pre-presidential run and very visibly uncomfortable Connor Ratliff. Our first show in the small studio.
Episode 4
The first appearances of Anthony Atamaniuk and Horatio Sanz. I gotta tell you, I thought this public access experiment had crashed and burned, and Horatio showed up last minute with no warning.
Episode 5
The Wiffle Bat gang makes their debut - our first truly violent in an unexpected and way too much fashion experiment.
Episode 6
Our final small studio show and the first ever hosted by Shannon O'Neill.
Episode 7
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Episode 8
Considered an all time classic. Heavy hitter guests John Mulaney and Matt Besser.
Episode 9
A controversial episode. Our friends the Oroboros Dance Crew came in and showed us what they do - little did we know that they would pants the Human Fish.
Episode 10
The most legendarily disastrous bit in the history of TCGS, the first attempt at The Human Crane remains the only stunt we've bailed on halfway through.
Episode 11
The Chris Gethard Show debut of Jake Fogelnest.
Episode 12
No overview available.
Episode 13
What's on My Head? What a weird, fun game.
Episode 14
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Episode 15
Perhaps the dumbest idea we ever did - "Let's take the most popular thing about this show - in fact, the only thing that everyone loves all the time - and hide it from view for the entire show."
Episode 16
A heartbreaking goodbye to an old friend.
Episode 17
We go on a search for the new Random.
Episode 18
Chris Gethard watched an episode and decided he needed to lose a few pounds.
Episode 19
Connor invited every Republican candidate for president to debate him on the show.
Episode 20
Tom Scharpling in studio to mediate the relationship of Chris Gethard and his brother.
Episode 21
The Milkshake of Death. So gross, so fucked up, and such a fond memory.
Episode 22
Random Andrew was taking it on the chin from our callers.
Episode 23
A hundred-plus people showed up ready to eat.
Episode 24
A bunch of people from the show play on a basketball team together in NYC.
Episode 25
Our dating episode. This one was really fun but also a mess.
Episode 26
This was the great JD Amato's idea, and man was it a good one. All monologue jokes all the time.
Episode 27
We attempted to get 100 callers in a single episode.
Episode 28
This one hurt. The only show that actually went off the rails.
Episode 29
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Episode 30
The Night of Zero Laughs.
Episode 31
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Episode 32
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Episode 33
We had to say goodbye to Random Andrew, and it was so sad.
Episode 34
We meet Random Melissa.
Episode 35
Why have something like The Chris Gethard Show if you don't do something nice for other people with it?
Episode 36
Our callers quiz Chris on female related topics and it becomes very clear how little Chris knows about women.
Episode 37
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Episode 38
When Chris sets out to play the somewhat complicated word-game "Guess The Magic Word" he gets immediate feedback from the viewers that they are confused and bored by the game.
Episode 39
Eventually we had to let our audience use our cameras like guns that shoot missiles, so we went ahead and just did it.
Episode 40
We invited the interesting, articulate, and 66 year old Peter Benjaminson to the show to help us wrestle with the concept of aging.
Episode 41
A show dedicated to the ups and downs of education.
Episode 42
Completing his transition from hero to villain, the Hintmaster takes over an entire episode of TCGS, renaming it The Hintmaster Show.
Episode 43
The Multiple Choice Cavalcade of Fiascos is the ultimate bringer of either reward or punishment.
Episode 44
This week the TCGS panel is filled with friends of the show who speak different languages.
Episode 45
This week we test our ability to put on a show by literally planning nothing. No call in topic. No bits. No guests. Nothing.
Episode 46
The Keeper of the Battledome has time traveled back from the future to oversee a night of insanity on TCGS.
Episode 47
This week is not only Gethard's birthday but also the last show before he takes to the streets for #BonnarooGethard.
Episode 48
With Gethard and much of the crew out on the road, the rest of the gang hosts the Great Gethard Look-Alike Extravaganza.
Episode 49
Random Melissa's last episode.
Episode 50
It's been one whole year since we first started this circus and we're doing our one year anniversary right.
Episode 51
If you laugh, you get eliminated.
Episode 52
This week we weren't in the mood for dumb stuff.
Episode 53
This week we explore both the art world as well as the world of tricking dummies into giving us money.
Episode 54
In unison we read the August 2012 Issue of Twist Magazine. For the entire show.
Episode 55
Behind the scenes of the setup for TCGS.
Episode 56
Panel, Callers, and friends are all asked to sum up their entire lives in one sentence.
Episode 57
With Chris out of town, Shannon hosts the show and urges celebrities to come down to the show to validate us.
Episode 58
Viewers sent in their submissions for names of new TCGS characters.
Episode 59
A day dedicated to Murf's head-shot and the man himself.
Episode 60
The TCGS cast and crew participate in a viewer submitted game of truth or dare.
Episode 61
When Andrew W.K. comes to the show, we attempt to throw the most unforgettable party possible within with guidelines of public access television rules.
Episode 62
The Keeper of the Battledome returns to TCGS.
Episode 63
The Chris Gethard Show gets stuck in ancient Rome.
Episode 64
R.L Stine, D.C. Pierson, and Dave Hill join the panel and attempt to write a book live on public access television in one hour.
Episode 65
The second Blindfold Show in which the entire panel is blindfolded.
Episode 66
We attempt to bring out the softer side of Shannon O'Neill.
Episode 67
We screen ten films each under one minute in the first ever Cans Film Festival.
Episode 68
The Beef Off: After a caller tried to determine the beefiest member of the TCGS crew, we decided to hold an official contest to figure out who the beefiest member of the TCGS family might be.
Episode 69
A bunch of friends gathering at a public access studio and eating sandwiches together on the eve of Thanksgiving - This year's Sandwich Night was massively successful.
Episode 70
Viewers send in their own original TCGS Fan Fiction and we perform it live on the show with Bobby Moynihan, Anthony Atamanuik, and many of our TCGS friends.
Episode 71
While our regular studio is being renovated we have to head uptown to do the show from MNN's secondary studio in Harlem.
Episode 72
Our second week in Harlem and fittingly we are talking about panic attacks.
Episode 73
We're in Harlem again and this time we're asking callers to give us their hypersolutions. We then take those hyperresolutions and then put Andrew Parrish in charge of making them come true.
Episode 74
With Chris out of town we head to the time stream and check in on The Keeper of the Battledome's morning talk show Keeper and Company.
Episode 75
Chris is joined by Jesse Ventura and Bethany to officially celebrate Loser-dome for the second time on the TCGS air waves. Callers and audience members explain why they might be losers.
Episode 76
This week the panelists take calls from people seeking advice and let them choose whether they want good or bad advice.
Episode 77
The panelists talk about some real stuff with callers as they help make a Belly Burrito.
Episode 78
Chris Gethard is joined by Danny Tamberelli and Mike Maronna from the Adventures of Pete and Pete as we say goodbye to "Random Manesha" who we literally only met once.
Episode 79
After challenging (begging) the fans to make the show #1 on iTunes, the panelists reward their successful efforts by degrading Chris Gethard.
Episode 80
The panelists test the limits of their non-dominant hands in a show concept suggested by a fan on the show's message boards.
Episode 81
After getting hit in the head with a coconut Vacation Jason has lost his memory and transformed in the stuffy suit-wearing Jason Reinlib.
Episode 82
With Chris Gethard down in Austin for South By Southwest, Shannon takes over hosting duties for the night and promptly gives all the power to our chatroom viewers. The legendary Ratz Carlton.
Episode 83
Chris Gethard has first time callers, first time foods, first time experiences, and first time giant life moments. Special guest Aidy Bryant.
Episode 84
One of the fictional characters will die.
Episode 85
Colt Cabana is the guest for the first ever Royal Rumble of Twister. Every two minutes a new competitor joins the fray as callers give twister-based challenges.
Episode 86
With Chris Gethard out of town, caller and friend of the show Alyssa takes the reigns and hosts a night dedicated to Beyonce. One full hour dedicated to Beyonce.
Episode 87
This week we decide to get real and talk about anything our callers want to divulge.
Episode 88
We spend an hour trying to guess the different objects hidden in Hot Dog's mouth.
Episode 89
We try to prove that we can play ball just like any mainstream late night talk show, so we invite some conventional late night talk show guests onto our show.
Episode 90
Special guest Zach Galifianakis joins us in studio to give haircuts to strangers.
Episode 91
Amy Poehler helps us predict the future. We use fortune cookies, tarot cards, magic eight balls, and our own intuition to determine what will happen to our callers.
Episode 92
Callers, cast, and friends all describe the motions that make them unique. With special guest Griffin Newman.
Episode 93
This week the audience was challenged to submit the most offensive things they can muster.
Episode 94
The show was handed over to fellow MNN producer Conspiracy Theory Gary and let him put on the Conspiracy Theory Gary Show.
Episode 95
What happens when a bunch of strangers come together with random instruments and make up an hour long song?
Episode 96
It's back. Viewers submitted over 700 character names, we picked 10, and now you get to see these characters come to life.
Episode 97
Callers tell stories and our panel has to decide if they are true or not.
Episode 98
Following the lead of Edward Snowden, Gethard decides to leak all emails and text messages associated with this week's show.
Episode 99
Four adult men look at each other's dicks for an hour.
Episode 100
Chris gives a State of The TCGS speech while getting speech jammed.
Episode 101
With special guests Aidy Bryant and Vanessa Bayer, the panel is challenged to guess the lips of TCGS characters by kissing them in the first ever Glory Hole Kissing Booth.
Episode 102
Bobby Moynihan loves toys. Callers decide which challenges Bobby has to endure in order to save toys from destruction.
Episode 103
We have a birthday for a Turtle.
Episode 104
The Human Fish has been captured by an alien and only a board-game based space battle captained by Mad Men's Rich Sommer can get him back.
Episode 105
Jake Fogelnest joins the panel to critique our callers.
Episode 106
Is Random Messenger Bag truly a hero or just a man who has yet to be properly tested? Also, the Front Bottoms join us and make our audience go crazy.
Episode 107
We got nothing. The only things we got are Quitzow who mesmerizes our audience in dancing a lot.
Episode 108
Someone leaked confidential information to Gimghoul Castle in North Carolina, which begs us to ask the question: Who is the goddamn mole?
Episode 109
Will Rob Malone defend his title? Will Jersey Dave repeat his first round failure from TBO1? Only the beefy will survive.
Episode 110
Callers help us train Connor Ratliff in possible events for the upcoming Summer Olympics. Will he find his event?
Episode 111
We use Skype to watch our audience watch us.
Episode 112
TCGS performs a half-hour opener for the hit live variety sketch show Saddle-Bee Neigh-t Hive starring Horse and Bee. Griffin Newman is the special guest on TCGS as well as the host of SNH.
Episode 113
We let a guy from Cornell lead us around his school library via Skype for a full hour.
Episode 114
We have a haunted doll. We want to give it to you. By the end of this show one of you will get it and all of the curses that come with it.
Episode 115
Viewers send things to the studio and we just sit back and let the fun come to us.
Episode 116
You make bets, we do them.
Episode 117
A big announcement. Anything can happen. No cool kids.
Episode 118
The third annual Sandwich Night. The biggest crowd, the most sandwiches, and calls from other sandwich celebrations.
Episode 119
We try to make Bethany Hall cry live on air with help from horror actress Blanche Baker and the sick and twisted minds of our callers.
Episode 120
The wedding you've all been waiting for: The Guy Who Likes Cream But Not Too Much Cream & His Personal Barista. Love, laughs, and - drama?
Episode 121
The Human Fish gets waxed. With special guest Sal Vulcano, and musical guest Wheatus.
Episode 122
Chris Gethard and the panel ask the callers to tell them something they have never told anyone before.
Episode 123
No overview available.
Episode 124
Planned to be about nervousness regarding the future. Instead, a completely unplanned chant of "eat more butts" broke out at the beginning then lasted almost fifteen full minutes.
Episode 125
Chris Gethard invited fellow MNN producers who have been talking shit to come on air and talk it out. None of them show up.
Episode 126
Don Fanelli builds a human size bird house. A callback from the very first episode.
Episode 127
Diana Kolsky face paints panelists.
Episode 128
An episode where only Spanish is allowed to be spoken.
Episode 129
Callers were asked to call in and describe how they would fight Chris Gethard.
Episode 130
Callers were asked to call in and have phone sex with various members of our panel, and our very special guest, Hannibal Buress.
Episode 131
Chris Gethard invites a Canadian teenager to interview the panel about comedy and teenagers.
Episode 132
The Chris Gethard Show celebrates the long time creative contributor Juan in a live retrospective.
Episode 133
The Night Of Zero Laughs V. If you laugh, you get eliminated.
Episode 134
The first person to call in decides the topic of the entire episode.
Episode 135
Special guest Eddie Kingston in studio to help us work on the ancient art of cutting wrestling promos.
Episode 136
"El Matador" Tito Santana and SNL's Brooks Wheelan are joining us to talk about pro wrestling for the third week in a row.
Episode 137
No characters, no costumes, no musical guest, no house band, no hula hooping. Just taking calls from people who used to watch the show but don't anymore, so they can say why.
Episode 138
Bo Montez takes over the The Chris Gethard Show time slot, so get ready to shake your rumps for a full hour of debauchery.
Episode 139
There are no camera operators, floor managers, or any crew, Chris Gethard takes over all the reins with musical guest Mal Blum.
Episode 140
The Chris Gethard Show traveled back to the 1700s to see some of our nation's founding fathers compete against audience members in a series of ill advised and very 18th Century events with music by Open Mike Eagle and Hannibal Buress.
Episode 141
The Chris Gethard Show has a simple call in topic this week - "Should we keep doing this show?" with music by Black Wine.
Episode 142
Due to Hurricane Sandy shutting down most of New York, TCGS is forced to put on an impromptu Halloween Party and Live Show direct from Chris' actual bedroom. Cast and crew walked from the far corners of New York to get there and what unfolded was a last-second completely unplanned episode of TCGS. We try to scare Bethany, hear some great music, and endorse products since we're not on the public access airwaves.
Episode 143
No overview available.
