I have already interviewed Scott Aukerman because I think he’s super great. When I get to talk someone I not only respect but have a consider amount of nerd-like passion over. It may be relatively unprofessional to say that but I’m not working for The New York Times. I’m working for Ology and Ology is about passions and fandom. Interview number two came at the incredible Comic Con, something that Scott gets to every year. Not only is Scott going on tour with Comedy Bang Bang but he’s closing out his first season of the “talk show” of the same title (season finale is on August 10th). And yes, there will always be a podcast.
| Check out my first interview with Aukerman |
On the reception of his show on IFC he says, “I feel like people either love it or hate it, which is right where you want to be with a show... Every week I get more and more people discovering it, so that’s been fun. I think people don’t know what it is quite yet. I think now is about where people kind of go “Ohhhh I understand, this is a fake show...’”
The issue of the off-beat comedy is somewhat what deters some folks from the show, which Aukerman says is fifty percent scripted and fifty percent improv. This is really what makes Comedy Bang Bang special- both the podcast, the TV show and the live show. Aukerman works closely with comedy veterans, many of which were trained under Del Close, the unofficial father of improv comedy.
Aukerman’s tour unofficially started in San Diego, where he had a warm up show. “It’s really just [for] San Diegans who are bored and have nothing else to do,” he blanches. Then he’s off to Minnesota, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, Boston, New York, DC, Philadelphia and finishes up in Vancouver. Shows will include very special guest stars (he didn’t tell me who which I’m a little peeved about) as well as podcast favorite James Adomian.
If it sounds like Aukerman has a lot of things on the proverbial plate, he does. Not just the TV show, the podcast (and appearances on other podcasts as well), the tour but he recently finished a film script. For the usual legal purposes he couldn’t talk too much but he did say that it was a family film for Ron Howard’s company, “sort of a Jumanji-ish kind of thing.” (I’m sorry, how awesome does that sound?) “I’m really proud of it. I think it’s a really cool idea. It’s based off an experience where a bunch of us wrote scripts for Imagine in a room together. It was a group of 10 of us who wrote scripts for them all year and critiqued each other’s scripts. It was a really interesting process, it was the culmination of that.”
Finishing up the interview, I asked Scott if he ever felt like dressing up in cosplay for Comic Con. He laughed and insisted that he wasn’t interested. If he did dress up? “I think I would be a giant hulk hand, just the hand, my face would be coming out of the palm. Oh yeah, I would make that noise. Anytime anyone bumped into me I would be contractually obligated to make the noise.”
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