Every season of The Chris Gethard Show: Public Access ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of The Chris Gethard Show: Public Access!

The first episode was a rocky episode. The beginning of a very wild ride.

The First Episode

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.

The Episode Where Everything Started

Shirtless Fanelli. A pre-presidential run and very visibly uncomfortable Connor Ratliff. Our first show in the small studio.

The Third Episode Episode

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.

The Tazapper Episode

The Wiffle Bat gang makes their debut - our first truly violent in an unexpected and way too much fashion experiment.

The Wiffle Bat Gang Episode

Our final small studio show and the first ever hosted by Shannon O'Neill.

The Last Small Studio Show

The Hands on an Audience Member Episode

Considered an all time classic. Heavy hitter guests John Mulaney and Matt Besser.

The Kickboxer Episode

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.

The Dance Battle Episode

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.

The Human Crane Episode

The Chris Gethard Show debut of Jake Fogelnest.

The How Random Is Random Jean Episode

The Fanelli Birthday Episode

What's on My Head? What a weird, fun game.

The What's on My Head Episode

The Drawing Pictures Episode

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."

The Find the Human Fish Episode

A heartbreaking goodbye to an old friend.

Goodbye Random Jean

New Friends and Long Lost Friends

Chris Gethard watched an episode and decided he needed to lose a few pounds.

The Physical Fitness Episode

Connor invited every Republican candidate for president to debate him on the show.

The Great American Presidential Debate and Halloween Spooktacular

Tom Scharpling in studio to mediate the relationship of Chris Gethard and his brother.

Sibling Rivalry

The Milkshake of Death. So gross, so fucked up, and such a fond memory.

The Milkshake of Death

Random Andrew was taking it on the chin from our callers.

Random Andrew and the Hero's Journey

A hundred-plus people showed up ready to eat.

Sandwich Night

A bunch of people from the show play on a basketball team together in NYC.

The Greatest Rivalry in Sports

Our dating episode. This one was really fun but also a mess.

Papa Gethard's Love Cauldron

This was the great JD Amato's idea, and man was it a good one. All monologue jokes all the time.

Monologues Only

We attempted to get 100 callers in a single episode.

One Hundred Callers

This one hurt. The only show that actually went off the rails.

Ruin This Show

The Dominatrix

The Night of Zero Laughs III

The Blindfold Show

Loser Is the New Nerd

We had to say goodbye to Random Andrew, and it was so sad.

The Search for the New Random

The Birth of the Third Random

Why have something like The Chris Gethard Show if you don't do something nice for other people with it?

Checking in with Alyssa

Our callers quiz Chris on female related topics and it becomes very clear how little Chris knows about women.

How Do Girls Work

The Culture Show

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.

The Birth of the Hintmaster

Eventually we had to let our audience use our cameras like guns that shoot missiles, so we went ahead and just did it.

The Camera Cannon

We invited the interesting, articulate, and 66 year old Peter Benjaminson to the show to help us wrestle with the concept of aging.

The Wisdom of the Aged

A show dedicated to the ups and downs of education.

Math Sucks, Hintmaster Sucks

Completing his transition from hero to villain, the Hintmaster takes over an entire episode of TCGS, renaming it The Hintmaster Show.

The Hintmaster Show

The Multiple Choice Cavalcade of Fiascos is the ultimate bringer of either reward or punishment.

Multiple Choice Cavalcade of Fiascos

This week the TCGS panel is filled with friends of the show who speak different languages.

Foreign Language Bingo

This week we test our ability to put on a show by literally planning nothing. No call in topic. No bits. No guests. Nothing.

We Got Nothing

The Keeper of the Battledome has time traveled back from the future to oversee a night of insanity on TCGS.

Robot Fights

This week is not only Gethard's birthday but also the last show before he takes to the streets for #BonnarooGethard.

Birthday Night

With Gethard and much of the crew out on the road, the rest of the gang hosts the Great Gethard Look-Alike Extravaganza.

The Great Gethard Look-Alike Extravaganza

Farewell Melissa

It's been one whole year since we first started this circus and we're doing our one year anniversary right.

The One Year Anniversary Show

The Night of Zero Laughs

This week we weren't in the mood for dumb stuff.

The Genuine Sadness Episode

This week we explore both the art world as well as the world of tricking dummies into giving us money.

The Shitty Art Show

In unison we read the August 2012 Issue of Twist Magazine. For the entire show.

The Twist Magazine August 2012 Issue

The Setup Show

Panel, Callers, and friends are all asked to sum up their entire lives in one sentence.

Sum Yourself Up in One Sentence

With Chris out of town, Shannon hosts the show and urges celebrities to come down to the show to validate us.

Celebrities Come Validate Us

Viewers sent in their submissions for names of new TCGS characters.

The Crowd-Sourced Character Contest

A day dedicated to Murf's head-shot and the man himself.

Happy Murf Day

The TCGS cast and crew participate in a viewer submitted game of truth or dare.

Truth or Dare

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.

The Ultimate Public Access Party

The Keeper of the Battledome returns to TCGS.

Smash Cut to the Future

The Chris Gethard Show gets stuck in ancient Rome.

Smash Cut to the Past

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.

A Book Shall Be Written

The second Blindfold Show in which the entire panel is blindfolded.

The Blindfold Show II

We attempt to bring out the softer side of Shannon O'Neill.

The Softer Side of Shannon O'Neill

We screen ten films each under one minute in the first ever Cans Film Festival.

The Cans Film Festival 2012

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.

The Beef Off

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.

Sandwich Night 2012: 2 Sandwich 2 Night

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.

Fan Fiction Theatre

While our regular studio is being renovated we have to head uptown to do the show from MNN's secondary studio in Harlem.

First Night in Harlem

Our second week in Harlem and fittingly we are talking about panic attacks.

Panic Attacks and Technical Disasters

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.

Hyperresolutions

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.

Keeper and Company

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.

Loser Is Still the New Nerd

This week the panelists take calls from people seeking advice and let them choose whether they want good or bad advice.

Angels and Devils

The panelists talk about some real stuff with callers as they help make a Belly Burrito.

Belly Burrito

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.

Farewell Manesha

After challenging (begging) the fans to make the show #1 on iTunes, the panelists reward their successful efforts by degrading Chris Gethard.

Race to the Top

The panelists test the limits of their non-dominant hands in a show concept suggested by a fan on the show's message boards.

Ambidextrous?

After getting hit in the head with a coconut Vacation Jason has lost his memory and transformed in the stuffy suit-wearing Jason Reinlib.

February Beach Party

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.

When the Cat's Away, the Ratz Will Play

Chris Gethard has first time callers, first time foods, first time experiences, and first time giant life moments. Special guest Aidy Bryant.

First Times

One of the fictional characters will die.

Someone will Die

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.

The Royal Rumble of Twister

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.

Beyonce

This week we decide to get real and talk about anything our callers want to divulge.

Let's Get Real

We spend an hour trying to guess the different objects hidden in Hot Dog's mouth.

What's in Hot Dog's Mouth

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.

Let's Sell Out with Real Late Night Characters

Special guest Zach Galifianakis joins us in studio to give haircuts to strangers.

Who Needs a Haircut?

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.

We Will Predict Your Future

Callers, cast, and friends all describe the motions that make them unique. With special guest Griffin Newman.

Sum Yourself Up in a Dance Move

This week the audience was challenged to submit the most offensive things they can muster.

What's the Worst Thing You Can Make Us Say?

The show was handed over to fellow MNN producer Conspiracy Theory Gary and let him put on the Conspiracy Theory Gary Show.

Conspiracy Theory Gary Show

What happens when a bunch of strangers come together with random instruments and make up an hour long song?

The Hour Long Song

It's back. Viewers submitted over 700 character names, we picked 10, and now you get to see these characters come to life.

The Crowd Sourced Character Contest 2

Callers tell stories and our panel has to decide if they are true or not.

True or False

Following the lead of Edward Snowden, Gethard decides to leak all emails and text messages associated with this week's show.

Leaked E-mails

Four adult men look at each other's dicks for an hour.

Looking at Dicks for an Hour: A New Low

Chris gives a State of The TCGS speech while getting speech jammed.

Hundo

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.

The Best Seasons of The Chris Gethard Show: Public Access

The Best Seasons of The Chris Gethard Show: Public Access

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3