Scott Auckerman shares his formulation for humorous forward of ‘Comedy Bang! Bang! Dwell!’ Atlanta present – WABE

13 years in the past, the podcasting world received a heck of so much funnier as Scott Aukerman entered the realm with a bang. His award-winning podcast “Comedy Bang! Bang!” blends sketch comedy with superstar conversations, and it’s been referred to as “typically unusual, persistently hilarious and all the time unpredictable” by Leisure Weekly. “Comedy Bang! Bang!” is at the moment on their North American tour and involves the Tabernacle tomorrow night, Aug. 17. Earlier than Aukerman hits the stage, he joined “Metropolis Lights” senior producer Kim Drobes through Zoom to speak about his lengthy historical past of tweaking typical comedy codecs.

On the inspiration behind the unique “Comedy Bang! Bang!” podcast:

“I’d been doing a stay present, form of a standup showcase together with comedians doing characters, for 10 years on the Upright Residents Brigade Theater in Los Angeles. I’d been producing it, and I’d seen numerous comedians go up and do these actually humorous characters,” Aukerman recounted. “So I received this radio present at an area L.A. radio station, and I assumed it was simply going to be me interviewing comedians like most podcasts are … however then a number of episodes in, I had some comedians on, taking part in characters.”

He went on, “I actually loved the backwards and forwards of me attempting to throw them off, asking bizarre questions and them being genius improvisers, and responding with actually humorous solutions. It stroke a chord in my memory of one among my favourite issues, which was Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner’s ‘The 2000 12 months Outdated Man,’ which actually had that feeling of individuals having enjoyable and attempting to form of mess with one another, but in addition being geniuses.”

On translating the distinctive formulation to TV:

“I noticed, speak reveals, generally, are kind of ephemeral. You don’t return and re-watch reruns of them on objective. It’s possible you’ll occur throughout them should you’re simply up at evening, however I actually needed it to be a present that individuals would return and watch a number of occasions. So what we did was, we translated it and made it a little bit extra visible, rather less within the second and a little bit extra of an announcement,” stated Aukerman.

“Now, that stated, it had all the components — it had Reggie Watts … after which finally Child Cudi and Bizarre Al Yankovic turned the bandleaders after Reggie left, however it simply had extra sketches, and it had extra visible stuff. And what I’m actually proud about is the truth that I nonetheless get messages of individuals telling me it’s their consolation watch. They’ve watched each episode 10, 20 occasions, and that’s what I actually needed to attain with it, is make one thing that lasted and had a longstanding likability issue.”

Aukerman’s different brainchild, “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifinakis“:

“After we first began ‘Between Two Ferns,’ superstar tradition simply was at an all-time excessive of obsequiousness. , any time you watch a chat present, the interview that you simply’re watching between the host and a celeb has been preplanned to loss of life,” Aukerman stated. “I’ve finished a number of speak reveals right here and there, and each time you do one, the producer calls you and has roughly three to 5 conversations, actually detailing how the dialog is gonna go, so there’s no margin for error.”

“I feel when individuals watch speak reveals these days, they will really feel that, and so they can really feel that the host and the visitor are usually not doing one thing actual. So I feel that’s why it was so common after we first got here out with [‘Between Two Ferns’] 10 or 11 years in the past … Right here was a bunch who didn’t care about ensuring the interview went effectively. In truth, he was going to ask impolite questions. The visitor was going to get upset with the host … All of us prefer to see celebrities get insulted as a result of they have to be typically.”

“Comedy Bang! Bang! Dwell” takes place on Aug. 17 on the Tabernacle. Tickets and extra info can be found right here.