Scott Aukerman Quotes

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

All comedians have to use their physicality, so I use my size.

To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

The moment for me, thinking I might actually want to do comedy professionally, was when I did public speaking at school. I found out I was good at getting up in front of class. In the fifth grade, I did a speech on comedy.

I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.