June 22, 2011
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The first episode was a rocky episode. The beginning of a very wild ride.
June 29, 2011
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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.
July 6, 2011
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Shirtless Fanelli. A pre-presidential run and very visibly uncomfortable Connor Ratliff. Our first show in the small studio.
July 13, 2011
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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.
July 20, 2011
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The Wiffle Bat gang makes their debut - our first truly violent in an unexpected and way too much fashion experiment.
July 27, 2011
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Our final small studio show and the first ever hosted by Shannon O'Neill.
August 3, 2011
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August 10, 2011
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Considered an all time classic. Heavy hitter guests John Mulaney and Matt Besser.
August 17, 2011
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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.
August 24, 2011
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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.
August 31, 2011
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The Chris Gethard Show debut of Jake Fogelnest.
September 7, 2011
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September 14, 2011
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What's on My Head? What a weird, fun game.
September 21, 2011
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September 28, 2011
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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."
October 5, 2011
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A heartbreaking goodbye to an old friend.
October 12, 2011
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We go on a search for the new Random.
October 19, 2011
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Chris Gethard watched an episode and decided he needed to lose a few pounds.
October 26, 2011
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Connor invited every Republican candidate for president to debate him on the show.
November 2, 2011
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Tom Scharpling in studio to mediate the relationship of Chris Gethard and his brother.
November 9, 2011
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The Milkshake of Death. So gross, so fucked up, and such a fond memory.
November 16, 2011
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Random Andrew was taking it on the chin from our callers.
November 23, 2011
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A hundred-plus people showed up ready to eat.
November 30, 2011
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A bunch of people from the show play on a basketball team together in NYC.
December 7, 2011
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Our dating episode. This one was really fun but also a mess.
December 14, 2011
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This was the great JD Amato's idea, and man was it a good one. All monologue jokes all the time.
December 21, 2011
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We attempted to get 100 callers in a single episode.
January 4, 2012
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This one hurt. The only show that actually went off the rails.
January 11, 2012
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January 18, 2012
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The Night of Zero Laughs.
January 25, 2012
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February 1, 2012
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February 8, 2012
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We had to say goodbye to Random Andrew, and it was so sad.
February 15, 2012
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We meet Random Melissa.
February 22, 2012
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Why have something like The Chris Gethard Show if you don't do something nice for other people with it?
February 29, 2012
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Our callers quiz Chris on female related topics and it becomes very clear how little Chris knows about women.
March 7, 2012
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March 21, 2012
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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.
March 28, 2012
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Eventually we had to let our audience use our cameras like guns that shoot missiles, so we went ahead and just did it.
April 4, 2012
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We invited the interesting, articulate, and 66 year old Peter Benjaminson to the show to help us wrestle with the concept of aging.
April 11, 2012
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A show dedicated to the ups and downs of education.
April 18, 2012
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Completing his transition from hero to villain, the Hintmaster takes over an entire episode of TCGS, renaming it The Hintmaster Show.
April 25, 2012
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The Multiple Choice Cavalcade of Fiascos is the ultimate bringer of either reward or punishment.
May 3, 2012
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This week the TCGS panel is filled with friends of the show who speak different languages.
May 9, 2012
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This week we test our ability to put on a show by literally planning nothing. No call in topic. No bits. No guests. Nothing.
May 16, 2012
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The Keeper of the Battledome has time traveled back from the future to oversee a night of insanity on TCGS.
May 23, 2012
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This week is not only Gethard's birthday but also the last show before he takes to the streets for #BonnarooGethard.
May 30, 2012
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With Gethard and much of the crew out on the road, the rest of the gang hosts the Great Gethard Look-Alike Extravaganza.
June 13, 2012
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Random Melissa's last episode.
July 20, 2012
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It's been one whole year since we first started this circus and we're doing our one year anniversary right.
June 27, 2012
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If you laugh, you get eliminated.
July 11, 2012
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This week we weren't in the mood for dumb stuff.
July 18, 2012
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This week we explore both the art world as well as the world of tricking dummies into giving us money.
July 25, 2012
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In unison we read the August 2012 Issue of Twist Magazine. For the entire show.
August 1, 2012
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Behind the scenes of the setup for TCGS.
August 8, 2012
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Panel, Callers, and friends are all asked to sum up their entire lives in one sentence.
August 15, 2012
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With Chris out of town, Shannon hosts the show and urges celebrities to come down to the show to validate us.
August 22, 2012
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Viewers sent in their submissions for names of new TCGS characters.
August 29, 2012
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A day dedicated to Murf's head-shot and the man himself.
September 5, 2012
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The TCGS cast and crew participate in a viewer submitted game of truth or dare.
September 12, 2012
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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.
September 19, 2012
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The Keeper of the Battledome returns to TCGS.
September 29, 2012
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The Chris Gethard Show gets stuck in ancient Rome.
October 3, 2012
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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.
October 10, 2012
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The second Blindfold Show in which the entire panel is blindfolded.
October 17, 2012
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We attempt to bring out the softer side of Shannon O'Neill.
October 24, 2012
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We screen ten films each under one minute in the first ever Cans Film Festival.
November 14, 2012
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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.
November 21, 2012
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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.
November 28, 2012
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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.
December 12, 2012
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While our regular studio is being renovated we have to head uptown to do the show from MNN's secondary studio in Harlem.
December 19, 2012
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Our second week in Harlem and fittingly we are talking about panic attacks.
January 2, 2013
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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.
January 9, 2013
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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.
January 16, 2013
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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.
January 23, 2013
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This week the panelists take calls from people seeking advice and let them choose whether they want good or bad advice.
January 30, 2013
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The panelists talk about some real stuff with callers as they help make a Belly Burrito.
February 6, 2013
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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.
February 13, 2013
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After challenging (begging) the fans to make the show #1 on iTunes, the panelists reward their successful efforts by degrading Chris Gethard.
February 20, 2013
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The panelists test the limits of their non-dominant hands in a show concept suggested by a fan on the show's message boards.
February 27, 2013
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After getting hit in the head with a coconut Vacation Jason has lost his memory and transformed in the stuffy suit-wearing Jason Reinlib.
March 3, 2013
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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.
March 20, 2013
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Chris Gethard has first time callers, first time foods, first time experiences, and first time giant life moments. Special guest Aidy Bryant.
March 27, 2013
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One of the fictional characters will die.
April 3, 2013
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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.
April 10, 2013
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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.
April 17, 2013
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This week we decide to get real and talk about anything our callers want to divulge.
April 24, 2013
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We spend an hour trying to guess the different objects hidden in Hot Dog's mouth.
May 1, 2013
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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.
May 8, 2013
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Special guest Zach Galifianakis joins us in studio to give haircuts to strangers.
May 15, 2013
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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.
May 22, 2013
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Callers, cast, and friends all describe the motions that make them unique. With special guest Griffin Newman.
May 29, 2013
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This week the audience was challenged to submit the most offensive things they can muster.
June 5, 2013
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The show was handed over to fellow MNN producer Conspiracy Theory Gary and let him put on the Conspiracy Theory Gary Show.
June 12, 2013
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What happens when a bunch of strangers come together with random instruments and make up an hour long song?
June 19, 2013
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It's back. Viewers submitted over 700 character names, we picked 10, and now you get to see these characters come to life.
June 26, 2013
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Callers tell stories and our panel has to decide if they are true or not.
July 3, 2013
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Following the lead of Edward Snowden, Gethard decides to leak all emails and text messages associated with this week's show.
July 10, 2013
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Four adult men look at each other's dicks for an hour.
July 17, 2013
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Chris gives a State of The TCGS speech while getting speech jammed.
July 31, 2013
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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.
August 7, 2013
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Bobby Moynihan loves toys. Callers decide which challenges Bobby has to endure in order to save toys from destruction.
August 14, 2013
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We have a birthday for a Turtle.
August 21, 2013
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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.
August 28, 2013
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Jake Fogelnest joins the panel to critique our callers.
September 4, 2013
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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.
September 11, 2013
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We got nothing. The only things we got are Quitzow who mesmerizes our audience in dancing a lot.
September 18, 2013
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Someone leaked confidential information to Gimghoul Castle in North Carolina, which begs us to ask the question: Who is the goddamn mole?
September 25, 2013
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Will Rob Malone defend his title? Will Jersey Dave repeat his first round failure from TBO1? Only the beefy will survive.
October 2, 2013
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Callers help us train Connor Ratliff in possible events for the upcoming Summer Olympics. Will he find his event?
October 9, 2013
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We use Skype to watch our audience watch us.
October 16, 2013
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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.
October 23, 2013
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We let a guy from Cornell lead us around his school library via Skype for a full hour.
October 30, 2013
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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.
November 6, 2013
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Viewers send things to the studio and we just sit back and let the fun come to us.
November 13, 2013
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You make bets, we do them.
November 20, 2013
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A big announcement. Anything can happen. No cool kids.
November 27, 2013
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The third annual Sandwich Night. The biggest crowd, the most sandwiches, and calls from other sandwich celebrations.
December 4, 2013
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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.
December 11, 2013
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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?
April 2, 2014
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The Human Fish gets waxed. With special guest Sal Vulcano, and musical guest Wheatus.
April 9, 2014
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Chris Gethard and the panel ask the callers to tell them something they have never told anyone before.
April 16, 2014
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April 24, 2014
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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.
April 30, 2014
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Chris Gethard invited fellow MNN producers who have been talking shit to come on air and talk it out. None of them show up.
May 7, 2014
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Don Fanelli builds a human size bird house. A callback from the very first episode.
May 14, 2014
1h
Diana Kolsky face paints panelists.
May 21, 2014
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An episode where only Spanish is allowed to be spoken.
May 28, 2014
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Callers were asked to call in and describe how they would fight Chris Gethard.
June 4, 2014
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Callers were asked to call in and have phone sex with various members of our panel, and our very special guest, Hannibal Buress.
June 11, 2014
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Chris Gethard invites a Canadian teenager to interview the panel about comedy and teenagers.
June 18, 2014
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The Chris Gethard Show celebrates the long time creative contributor Juan in a live retrospective.
June 25, 2014
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The Night Of Zero Laughs V. If you laugh, you get eliminated.
July 2, 2014
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The first person to call in decides the topic of the entire episode.
July 9, 2014
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Special guest Eddie Kingston in studio to help us work on the ancient art of cutting wrestling promos.
July 16, 2014
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"El Matador" Tito Santana and SNL's Brooks Wheelan are joining us to talk about pro wrestling for the third week in a row.
July 23, 2014
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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.
July 30, 2014
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Bo Montez takes over the The Chris Gethard Show time slot, so get ready to shake your rumps for a full hour of debauchery.
August 6, 2014
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There are no camera operators, floor managers, or any crew, Chris Gethard takes over all the reins with musical guest Mal Blum.
August 13, 2014
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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.
August 20, 2014
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The Chris Gethard Show has a simple call in topic this week - "Should we keep doing this show?" with music by Black Wine.
October 31, 2012
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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.
November 6, 2012
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