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NERDS!!!!!

Five of My Favorite Nerds

1. Curtis W. Armstrong

Since Ogre screaming “NEEERRRRDDDSSSS!!!” from Revenge of the Nerds is the official meme of nerds, I have to start with the man who was also in that movie and who I often argue is, pound for pound, the finest actor in American cinema. From Risky Business and Better Off Dead to “Moonlighting” and pretty much every sitcom in the past 25 years, Armstrong has carved out a long and wonderful career playing the slightly creepy, offbeat dork who seemingly doesn’t realize just how nerdy he is.

2. Weird Al Yankovic

Really, this says it all …

3. Tina Fey

The poster girl for nerds everywhere. She’s smart, funny and not afraid to mock her own geekiness at every turn—this year, when her Liz Lemon character was getting married and wanted to be “a princess,” of course you know which one only a true geek would pick!

And who can forget how she gave geeks everywhere a full nerd-on when she kissed Salma Hayek on “30 Rock”? Nerdgasmic!

4. Robot Chicken’s Nerd

If you watch this show created by übernerd Seth Green, then you are very familiar with The Nerd, who has had many adventures that only true geeks could appreciate, including ones with George Lucas and Knight Rider.

Here’s The Nerd in Oz …

5. Mayim Bialik

As much as I’ve enjoyed “The Big Bang Theory” over the past few years, the addition of Bialik’s Amy Farrah Fowler has taken the show to a new level of geekery. It also helps that Bialik brings serious nerd cred to the character, having actually earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience—her dissertation was an investigation of hypothalamic activity in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome, or as it’s known to others: NOT basket-weaving. Throw in a successful run as the awkward-but-precocious “Blossom”—whoa!—and there’s some serious nerdery going on here.

Of course, I’m cooler than all these nerds—you know, like Star Trek cool—so obviously I wouldn’t be on any geek list ….

Sure.