Scott Aukerman Quotes

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.

The key to being a singer - try to do it audibly.

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.

It's so hard to figure out how to end a TV show.

Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.

I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end.

A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

Оf course you can only write comedy when you're smoking weed.

It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something.

I always tried to do cool things.

Thank you for listening to Comedy Bang Bang! My name is Scott Aukerman and I will see you next week.

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

I always viewed [the podcast and the TV show] as two separate things.

The best sketch shows are from a group of tight-knit people whove worked together for a really long time.

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

I love all of our subpodcasts.

I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled.

That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.