Jefferson Graham

USA TODAY





HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Eric Andre, the host of Adult Swim's bawdy The Eric Andre Show, believes the world of anonymous comments have gone too far.

He's just yanked his YouTube channel and Facebook page, to direct fans instead just to his ericandre.com website and Twitter.

"They don't have comments for movies and TV shows," he says. "Why should there be comments for online videos?"

Removing his videos from YouTube and Facebook eliminates his clips from being "censored," he says. "I don't need a bunch of racist 12-year-olds to tell me I suck every five seconds on YouTube."

The world's No. 1 video site has become a "platform for teenagers to mouth off," he continues. "They're trolling and want attention. … I don't want to know about views; I don't want to know about comments. Just watch it or don't watch it. You watching it is the comment."





SMARTPHONE ADDICTION

Another issue in the real world — turning off the phone.

"The blue light that radiates off the phone scrambles your brain," he says. "Experts say you shouldn't look at your phone after 8 p.m. because you won't be able to get to sleep.

"I believe that. I'd be more productive if I wasn't checking my Twitter every five seconds," he says. Constantly looking to see new tweets and likes is "chasing the dragon, chasing a ghost that doesn't exist."





USING TECH TO MAKE COMEDY

His wild man-on-the-street segments for the Adult Swim series are mostly shot with hidden cameras, tiny GoPros that are hidden in a variety of places.

"You can hide a camera pretty much anywhere," he says. "Backpacks are nice and big. You can put a camera in a coffee cup. It's scary how easy it is to film people without them knowing." Want to do this at home kids? "Put (a GoPro) in a cup, and draw little circles around it, so it just looks part of the graphic design of the coffee cup," Andre says.





HOLIDAY GIFT WISH LIST

As a lover of "dinosaur technology," Andre jokes that he'd love to get a VCR rewinder, or possibly a combo VCR that plays both VHS and Betamax tapes.

"I have an old Commodore 64 and Laserdisc machine," he says. "Those silver discs looked so ridiculous."

A proud owner of an iPhone 5, he's not planning to succumb to the new iPhone 6.

"I'm a conspiracy theorist," Andre says. "As soon as the iPhone 6 came out, my 5 started breaking down. I think they put software in my phone so you're forced to buy the 6. You know what will be better than the 6? The iPhone 7. It's just a perpetual cycle. No matter what, the 6 will be irrelevant."

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