Latest Scott Aukerman Quotes from Interviews

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

  Scott Aukerman

  Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Scott Aukerman

  Good Things, Expecting

  Source: www.esquire.com

• You don't get a lot of life milestones in show business. It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something. With Mr. Show, I was only a writer and we knew we were going into the movie, and we thought, "Okay, like Monty Python, we're going to make five movies." And we didn't know it was the end. So it ended up being a bummer and such a terrible ending for Mr. Show. We never got to feel like, "Wow, we did it! We did something."

  Scott Aukerman

  Milestone, Terrible, Difficult

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It really was a unique experience to me to have a television show, Comedy Bang! Bang!, that I really cared about so much, and to know that it was the end, and know that that was the ending of it. We had a wrap party, and we thanked everybody. You don't get that a lot, especially in comedy.

  Scott Aukerman

  Party, Unique, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When we came to the network, it was a very interesting time where Portlandia had just come on the air and had been very, very successful. I think people had Portlandia-sized expectations for Comedy Bang! Bang!, especially after the first episode was sampled by quite a large number of people. I remember getting the ratings after the first episode, and the network was over the moon about it. And then the second episode tanked so hard. Like, no one watched it. It was a resounding, "Hey, a bunch of people tried your show, and they all hate it!"

  Scott Aukerman

  Hate, Successful, Moon

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Weed, Writing, Smoking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. 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, and we knew it was going to be the end, and sometimes it's just better if a comedy show ends and goes away and they never had a series finale.

  Scott Aukerman

  Depressing, Thinking, Goofy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I probably felt some sense of relief, because when you're on this continuous production cycle and you're doing a show for a network where they expect you to come back every May or every June, you just don't get time to sort of recharge.

  Scott Aukerman

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Going Away, Watches, Disappear

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Ends, Difficult, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I always tried to do cool things.

  Scott Aukerman

  Cool Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Scott Aukerman

  Tv Shows, Two, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When people look at the ratings and they're bad, I think people can get an idea of "Why would they even make the show?" And to a certain extent, original programming for any network is a loss leader to try to get you to keep the channel on your cable package.

  Scott Aukerman

  Loss, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Scott Aukerman

  Thinking, Stories, Narrative

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Scott Aukerman

  Depressing, People, Television

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Scott Aukerman

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Ends

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think there's just some fundamental decisions at the beginning that are going to make it different. Our show The Right Now Show is going to be specifically different than Mr. Show because of the talent involved.

  Scott Aukerman

  Thinking, Decision, Different

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

• The great thing about the Internet is - our show is totally modular. Every piece can be popped in and out. They're relatively short pieces. They're not long. And we can say, "here' s one way to market it. Take these pieces out of the show and put them on the Internet." And we're doing dirtier cuts and put those on the Internet. It's a real great way to market the show. This is finally the year a show like this can happen.

  Scott Aukerman

  Real, Cutting, Years

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

• But the great thing about shows now is since we've been doing (Comedy Death Ray), they have lightened up on their booking policies a bit more and are booking somebody who isn't famous and who hasn't been around ten years. It's great to see people who've done our show - the first big show they've ever done - now they can play around town.

  Scott Aukerman

  Years, Play, People

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

• And that's the thing about our show: what are they going to do put on the poster? I don't know. It's always easier when you have someone like Cedric the Entertainer where you can go, "You know this guy. You love this guy. Watch his sketch show." And then people tune in and go, "I though I knew that guy. I don't love that guy in a sketch show."

  Scott Aukerman

  People, Guy, Tunes

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

• Each week we usually have one person who's never done the show before. Last year we had close to 60 who'd never done the show before. We're constantly booking new people, sometimes to the consternation of people who live here who do the show regularly.

  Scott Aukerman

  Years, People, Done

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

• The show became popular as aspecialthing became popular. And Sasquatch, the guy who runs that site, started coming to every show and reviewing it. And when people start talking about the reviews from the stage. That to me is really self indulgent and we tried to put a caper on that.

  Scott Aukerman

  Running, Self, Talking

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

• You have to pay your dues. And what's nice, after booking a lot of new people... I counted the other day. We're in September and we've already booked between 30 or 40 people who've never done the show before.

  Scott Aukerman

  Nice, People, Done

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

• Others may dispute this, we have tried to keep that sense of experimentation and putting new people up alive. And we haven't become a show, where we're like, "We know the 20 comics who are good and we're just going to keep on recycling them."

  Scott Aukerman

  People, Alive, May

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

• We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."

  Scott Aukerman

  Book, Space, People

  Source: www.dead-frog.com