Geoff Garlock

Geoff Garlock is a comedian/writer/musician who has been studying/performing at the UCB since 2002. He was a writer on Maude Night for 5 1/2 years on such illustrious teams as Neighbor Boy, Slow Burn, The Skuntz and one of the first Maude teams iBadger and has been teaching Sketch at UCB for the past 6 years. His work has appeared on UCB Comedy, Adult Swim, Above Average, IFC, Fuse, MTV and others. He is also a freelance contributor to Weekend Update. Geoff also had a podcast called Worst Gig Ever you can check out, which had over 100 episodes, and a 7 episode web series produced through Official Comedy. If you do not know him from his comedy wares, you might know him from his musical wares. Geoff was the bass player in the influential hardcore band Orchid and the bass player in the less influential but to a select few band Panthers. He currently plays guitar in the metal band Low Estate and bass in the hardcore band Ritual Mess. He also composes solo synth music where he is slowly ripping off the horror soundtracks we all love. If you do not know him from either of these lifestyle ventures, you might know him from sitting on his couch with his wife and his bulldog, listening to weird metal and prog rock records and explaining to anyone who will listen why all eras of Genesis are important to the world.

Guest Appearances

August 16, 2017

Green Party candidate and Harvard-educated doctor Jill Stein (D’Arcy Carden) returns to Hard Nation, where she avoids answering whether she’s responsible for Donald Trump by playing Never Have I Ever and Zip Zap Kraut. Later, Jimmy Buffett (Geoff Garlock) calls in to preach the gospel of island livin’ and keeping the bad people out. Plus: Mark thinks Nazis are bad!

This episode is brought to you by Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/HARD).