61 Quotes by Scott Aukerman

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.

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.

There's definitely something about the structure of 'Caddyshack' that is unique that no one has ever been able to achieve since then.

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

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.

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

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.

I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right.

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.