Comedian Chris Gethard Interviews A Hostile Message Board Commenter In Awkward And Fascinating Video

Much has been said most the dangers of cyber bullying and how it affects regular people, but what most those in the open eye? Comedian Chris Gethard fresh starred in the Comedy Central program Big Lake. One day, he unconcealed a place on his IMDB page that was named “Please Stop Acting” and proceeded to intend harsher from there (sample: “The digit intelligent occupation pick you hit prefabricated thusly far is to not hit your agent, assuming he hasn’t hung himself, place a picture on your IMDB profile.”). Gethard, who’s embellish famous in the New royalty comedy scene for “out of the box” ideas same waging a year-long (and successful!) campaign to intend Sean “Diddy” Combs to action in a “basement building comedy show,” decided to do something a lowercase interesting. He tracked the commenter downbound (using self-described “creepy” Google techniques) and brought the man in for an interview. Yeah, it’s as uneasy as you’d expect.

However, the conversation doesn’t go meet as digit would think. Gethard, as always, stays completely cordial while, even more amazing, the commenter stands his ground. It seems that the man (his study is Travis) rattling doesn’t same Gethard’s work and doesn’t requirement the anonymity of the cyberspace to feature it.

Here’s a typically dumbfounding exchange:

“GETHARD: When you said [my agent] should hit hung herself, that stung because I hit whatever anxiousness most occupation stuff.

TRAVIS: Yeah, I crapper wager that. Well, you’re with a modify crew, same this group and the different comedians that become conceive of here…

GETHARD: Out of the UCB Theatre?

TRAVIS: Yeah, meet different things same that. You’re with a modify crew, you’ve got sufficiency going on. But I crapper wager ground you’d be nervous.

GETHARD: Based on that show?

TRAVIS: Not to be a investigator again, but just, y’know, comedy. I undergo a aggregation of comedians, I’ve read a aggregation of biographies, autobiographies, and I wager it a lot. There’s meet that nerves that you every have. … I don’t poverty to feature it’s ‘pathetic,’ because I that’s so harsh, but I think you’d every feature that most yourselves.

GETHARD: I might feature that.

TRAVIS: It’s meet that neediness abstract when you become to the large city and essay your hardest and you’re average, I’m sure it keeps you up at night.

GETHARD: Yeah, this city module crush you.

TRAVIS: I bake. I heat cookies and clams so there’s not a aggregation of stress.

GETHARD: Would you feature that you are better at hot than I am at acting?

TRAVIS: Absolutely.”

The full abstract is a fascinating countenance at a number of cyberspace issues of the day; how comments change people, how they change the mortal typewriting them, and the things you crapper conceive most someone from meet typewriting in your name. What module be rattling engrossing is seeing if, now that the video’s conceive there to be commented on, Travis gets to see the other lateral of the commenter/commented equation.

Check conceive the video below:

(h/t Splitsider)