Chris Hardwick

Last night on late night, Late Show’s streak of awesome continued with Tina Fey, Matthew Weiner showed a “sneak peak” of the Mad Men finale to Conan, and Jane Fonda and Diddy kept it real with Jimmy Fallon.

It is, perhaps, a bit strange that the first movie being distributed by Nerdist Industries is an examination of the most hyper-antisocial people of all nerddom. Chris Hardwick’s company, starting off with his Nerdist podcast, has helped emphasize, along with all sorts of big-budget comic-book blockbusters, that nerd culture is now not just part of mainstream culture, but has become its foundation