Scott Aukerman and I recently spoke about his Mr. Show days. Since then, Aukerman has built an empire: Earwolf Media produces not only some of the most popular podcasts with celebrity hosts (Including flagship Comedy Bang Bang, which Aukerman hosts once a week), but also Comedy Bang Bang the TV show. Aukerman is also the […]
Aukerman has built an empire: Earwolf Media produces not only some of the most popular podcasts with celebrity hosts (Including flagship Comedy Bang Bang, which Aukerman hosts once a week), but also Comedy Bang Bang the TV show.
In music, some places are great incubators: The Factory, STAX Records, Sub Pop. In comedy it is no different. In the late 1990s, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross created one of the most influential sketch comedy shows of all time, Mr. Show. They had lots of help bringing it to fruition, too. The list of […]
Scott has since gone on to co-create Earwolf Media with business partner Jeff Ullrich, and create the Comedy Bang Bang TV show for IFC. I spoke to Scott about his Mr. Show and "Run, Ronnie Run" (the Mr. Show movie) days.
Becoming an entrepreneur used to be a “they” thing: other people did it, but unless you had one in the family, it was a career shrouded in mystery. How do you get started? Do you have to be an inventor? What does it actually take to work for yourself? That seems to be changing. New […]
Becoming an entrepreneur used to be a "they" thing: other people did it, but unless you had one in the family, it was a career shrouded in mystery. How do you get started? Do you have to be an inventor? What does it actually take to work for yourself?
“Charming nonsensical nonsequitrs” might be the best way to describe the stand-up comedy of Brody Stevens, the star of Comedy Central’s new show Enjoy It! No two performances are ever the same. He manically runs from topic to topic rhapsodizing on Starbucks Trentas and segueing into his love for friends Zach Galifianakis and Rob Dyrdek. […]
"I was feeling bad about Chelsea. It was weighing on me. I stayed on my meds. Then I traveled a little bit and I wanted to drink. I lowered my Lexapro, because it made me sick after two or three beers, and I was feeling better. That’s where the mistakes happen. I wasn’t vein monitored by a psychiatrist. I wasn’t in therapy."
Stand-up comedian Greg Behrendt is one of the strangest beneficiaries of the Sex and the City effect that dominated late ’90s/early ’00s pop culture. After working as a script consultant on that show, he co-authored the landmark self-help book He’s Just Not That Into You. The book was a hit, but with it brought with […]
"What happened was that I became so famous as a self-help ‘guru’ that it overshadowed 15 years of really hard work as a stand-up. The crowd that came out was really looking for something different than I had to offer. That’s not their fault."