Scott Aukerman

Off Camera with Sam Jones

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Arts, Education, Off Camera, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Writer, director, comedian and podcast host Scott Aukerman is a very busy man. He is perhaps best known for his hit podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! which has been introducing audiences to the most talented comedians and improv artists for the last ten years. And that’s just Scott’s “side gig.” He’s written for movies and television shows, like Mr. Show, and more recently, Between Two Ferns, a wonderfully awkward talk show hosted by Zach Galifianakis which is now a full length Netflix movie. Even with all of his success, Scott still marvels at the fact that he gets to be silly and make other people laugh for a living. He wonders, “At what point will people figure out it’s all a scam?”He grew up with comedy in his bones and an affinity for David Letterman. In high school, he hosted a Letterman-inspired news show on his town’s public access channel. And in college he frequently turned serious, academic assignments into sketches, including a particularly memorable ballet performance which got him into trouble with his teachers. As Scott says, “I heard my whole life that I didn’t take things seriously enough, and I finally realized I should go into comedy.”Scott joins Off Camera to talk about Bob Odenkirk’s role in jump starting his career, his Between Two Ferns guest pitch/disclaimer, and how on the Between Two Ferns film, he was almost too afraid to talk to, let alone direct, David Letterman.

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0:00.0	Hey folks Sam Jones here. Welcome to another edition of Off-camera, the show where I get to talk to iconic creative curious artists and find out how they got that way and in this episode I sit down with writer
0:15.8	director podcaster and comedian Scott Akerman Scott has been very busy lately he's perhaps best known for his hit podcast
0:24.6	comedy bang bang which has been introducing audience to the most talented comedians and
0:28.7	improv artists for the last 10 years and that's just Scott's side gig.
0:33.6	He's written for movies and television shows,
0:35.8	like Mr. Show, and more recently between Two Ferns,
0:39.1	a wonderfully awkward talk show
0:40.8	hosted by Zach Galifanacus, which is now a full-length Netflix movie.
0:45.0	Even with all of his success, Scott still marvels at the fact that he gets to be silly and make other people laugh for a living.
0:52.0	He wonders, at what point will people realize
0:54.7	it's all a scam?
0:56.2	Scott grew up a comedy fan who, like me,
0:59.0	had an affinity for David Letterman.
1:00.8	In fact, in high school, he hosted a Lettermanman inspired news show on his town's public access channel and in college he frequently turned serious academic assignments into sketches including a memorable ballet performance which got him into trouble with his teachers.
1:15.3	As Scott tells it, I heard my whole life that I didn't take things seriously enough, and I finally
1:20.2	realized I should go into comedy. Scott joins off cameras to talk about Bob Odenkirk's role in jump-starting his career.
1:27.0	How on the Between Two Ferns film, he was almost too afraid to talk to, let alone direct David Letterman, and why his parents don't like anything he does.
1:36.1	So pull up a chair and listen in.
1:38.8	Hi Scott.
1:44.0	Hi Sam, thanks for having me on.
1:45.4	Oh, we said thank you at the same time.
1:47.8	That's what we do because we have so much in common.
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