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" 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. "
Scott Aukerman
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" I think expressing yourself and working hard can't help but have great results. Look at Zach Galifanakis. He didn't tweet. He didn't have a podcast. He just went out and did the funniest standup you'll ever see in your life. And he was rewarded for that. "
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Think
Help
Yourself
" I have new bodyguards ever since I got a TV show. I didn't know, but it's a lot like becoming president. They tell you every single secret, like who shot JFK. When you have a TV show, they not only tell you who shot JFK, but they assign you bodyguards. "
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" If you look at Earwolf, we've tried to have a really diverse stable of hosts. Even my show can get a little 'dudey' sometimes. "
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" 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. "
Scott Aukerman
Working
Trust
More
" When I was younger, I definitely had more of a dream, as they say on 'American Idol,' that I would have my own show. I always thought that that was something that would happen, that eventually I would just get my own show because anyone who wants their own show should get their own show. "
Scott Aukerman
Say
Dream
Thought
" Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating. "
Scott Aukerman
Stuff
Great
Living
" Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really. "
Scott Aukerman
Your
Universe
Really
" I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was. "
Scott Aukerman
Friend
Thought
People
" I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes. "
Scott Aukerman
Jokes
Funny
Late
" 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. "
Scott Aukerman
Friends
Together
Society
" I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization. "
Scott Aukerman
Better
Kind
Doing
" I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about. "
Scott Aukerman
World
Thought
Up
" After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, wow, I'm 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff. "
Scott Aukerman
I Can
Young
You
" Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art. "
Scott Aukerman
See
You
Art
" At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python. "
Scott Aukerman
Right
Now
Doing
" My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?' "
Scott Aukerman
Beginning
You
Saying
" Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want. "
Scott Aukerman
Just Because
Doing
I Can
" When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that. "
Scott Aukerman
Growing Up
Growing
Like
" 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. "
Scott Aukerman
Myself
Comedy
Great
" I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books. "
Scott Aukerman
Back
Issues
People
" I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies up until then, and they're a big influence on me and a big influence on Woody Allen, who is basically just ripping off Bob Hope for his first five or six movies. "
Scott Aukerman
Hope
Movies
Me
" Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10. "
Scott Aukerman
Day
TV
Pretty
" 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. "
Scott Aukerman
Excited
Kind
Radio
" What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer. "
Scott Aukerman
Audience
Breaking
Comedy
" I think that 'Mr. Show' was a huge influence on me. It was literally the reason I started doing comedy, because I was asked to do a bit at The Comedy Store, and B.J. Porter and I went to see Bob and David - who I'd never heard of - do a live show, which was one of the shows that got them the 'Mr. Show' show. "
Scott Aukerman
See
Influence
Live
" After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented. "
Scott Aukerman
Think
Comedy
Performance
" Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix. "
Scott Aukerman
Sit
People
Movies
" 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. "
Scott Aukerman
Person
Lot
Pranks
" There's always something interesting about comedy teams that have the exact same energy. The one time I really noticed that was Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in 'Step Brothers.' "
Scott Aukerman
Interesting
Comedy
Time
" I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it and say, 'Okay, I'm gonna tweet, and I'm gonna podcast, and I'm gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.' I don't think that should be the goal. "
Scott Aukerman
Happy
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