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Neil Gaiman

person · in 17 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 8 · 2009: 3 · 2010: 1 · 2011: 2 · 2013: 3

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What the videos say

2007

  • 2007-04-27 · April 27th: Bad Day,,, — Hank and Katherine are going to Helena to see Neil Gaiman and visit friends; he will try to get Gaiman saying hello to John, no guarantees. (00:01:49)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Hank opens with Neil Gaiman, whom he calls a New York Times best-selling, Hugo- and Nebula-winning 'nerdfighter guy', saying hi to John after Hank waited in a very long line. (00:00:12)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Because many Nerdfighters are Gaiman fans and want to be writers, Hank shares a clip he surreptitiously captured of Gaiman's lecture. (00:00:40)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Having watched John go through it, Hank attests that Gaiman is right, and says John fell victim to 'Gaiman's Law': on first publication you open the book straight to its only typo. (00:00:40)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Asked whether anything beats seeing your name on a book's spine, Gaiman says you think that if you did it once you'd never need anything more, comparing it to figuring out sex at 14. (00:01:09)
  • 2007-05-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning — John thanks Hank for standing in line to get Neil Gaiman to say hi, noting Gaiman signed more books that day in Helena than John has in his whole career. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-05-04 · May 3rd Extended Edition — Hank shows Neil Gaiman's latest book, Fragile Things, a collection of short stories he calls excellent; he and Katherine have been reading them to each other at night. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-05-04 · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo — Hank shows Neil Gaiman's latest book, Fragile Things, a collection of short stories he calls excellent; he and Katherine have been reading them to each other at night. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-05-04 · May 3rd Extended Edition — Hank is thrilled by the news; it makes Neil Gaiman 'way, way cooler' in his book and shows how much he likes They Might Be Giants. (00:01:12)
  • 2007-05-04 · May 3rd Extended Edition — Hank reports that Neil Gaiman's blog links to Maureen's 'excellent' post 'I Am A Very Dangerous Person', about her book's banning and its 'lack of moral fiber'. (00:02:17)
  • 2007-05-04 · May 3rd Extended Edition — Hank notes that Gaiman, describing the situation, does use the phrase 'pusillanimous twerps'. (00:02:17)
  • 2007-05-07 · May 7th: Birthday Extravaganza — Hank says John phoned before the film to tell them Neil Gaiman had posted a link to Brotherhood 2.0 on his blog. (00:01:10)
  • …and 4 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2009

  • 2009-02-19 · Fake Movie Talk With A Sock — Hank calls Coraline the prettiest movie he has ever seen, says they love Neil Gaiman and They Might Be Giants, and urges viewers to see it (unpaid). (00:00:27)
  • 2009-04-28 · 10 Book Reviews in 4 Minutes — Hank calls Neil Gaiman's Interworld less dark than typical Gaiman but fun and mysterious; it was originally meant to be a TV series. (00:01:00)
  • 2009-05-14 · GREEN SCREEN!!!! — Hank shows off the green screen with a rapid montage of shouted backgrounds, from Superman and Wolverine to Margo Roth Spiegelman, animals, Neil Gaiman, Jean-Luc Picard and Hundertwasser. (00:00:45)

2010

  • 2010-02-04 · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — Prizes listed include Harry Potter books signed by J. K. Rowling with a thank-you note, a guitar signed and used by Tom Felton, a cast-signed Deathly Hallows, signed Gaiman, Pratchett and John Green books, and Where the Wild Things Are artwork. (00:01:17)

2011

  • 2011-02-12 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank shows his Bobble-John, Sandman comics and other graphic novels, Terry Pratchett, Mars trilogy and Neil Gaiman books and DFTBA CDs; his Hunger Games is loaned out. (00:00:56)
  • 2011-12-05 · 5 Worst Typos of History — John explains Gaiman's Law, named for Neil Gaiman: an author who opens a book they wrote will inevitably find a typo. (00:00:29)

2013

  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank's teammate is Hannah Hart, host of My Drunk Kitchen; John's is Neil Gaiman, best-selling author who has written Doctor Who scripts. (01:44:05)
  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Neil Gaiman's advice: read everything, don't wait for elves to write your novel, and finish things, because a glorious failure teaches more than something never finished. (01:47:25)
  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John introduces a Paper Towns reader's theater, a book about imagining other people and our myths complexly: John as Q, Hannah Hart as Angela, Grace Helbig as Ben, Neil Gaiman as Radar. (02:30:51)
  • 2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall — Hank thanks Neil Gaiman, Kimya Dawson, The Mountain Goats, Ashley and Daniel, Hannah and Grace, Elyse, their parents, their wives and all of Nerdfighteria for making the show possible. (00:01:44)
  • 2013-10-25 · When Was it a Million Seconds Ago? — For a book, Hank recommends Neil Gaiman's quick, beautiful The Ocean at the End of the Lane and John Barnes's Losers in Space, an excellent introduction to hard science fiction. (00:03:30)