Scott Aukerman Quotes

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

I love doing talk shows.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

I started going to the open mics every day in 2003. You make the comics laugh, they get you work, and you build up your reputation. It was a slow process.

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I study entertainment and apply it to myself to one day become the greatest WWE superstar we have, and it's a lot of work. So I write jokes and material every day... you have to keep people's attention, one way or another.

I would love to do co-hosting somewhere to some degree.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host.

When I come out to do my stand-up set, I pretty much get bombarded with lines from movies. You try to play off it a little bit, but that's what people want to see.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.