Scott Aukerman

Scott David Aukerman (born July 2, 1970 ) is an American writer, actor, comedian, television personality, director, producer, and podcast host.

Starting as a writer and performer in the later seasons of the sketch series Mr. Show, Aukerman is best known as the host of the weekly comedy podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! as well as the IFC original television series of the same name.

Aukerman is the co-creator of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and co-founder of the Earwolf podcast network.

Aukerman was born in Savannah, Georgia to Burt and Linda Aukerman.

He grew up in Orange County, California, attending Cypress High School and the Orange County School of the Arts, studying acting and musical theater and writing plays in his spare time.

Aukerman was raised in a religiously observant household, attending a Baptist church three times a week until college.

He hosted a public-access television show called Centurion Highlights, based on the school's mascot.

After a brief period studying at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and touring the country as a musical theater actor, in 1995, at the request of his friends, Aukerman and Porter started performing at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles under the moniker "The Fun Bunch", a name meant to parody improvisation groups at the time.

Mr. Show co-creator Bob Odenkirk was in the audience for the second performance, and soon tapped the duo to write for and occasionally perform on the show in its fourth season.

This led to an Emmy nomination in 1999 for Aukerman and the rest of the staff.

Aukerman appeared sporadically on the show, most notably as the model Theo Brixton in the Taint Magazine sketch.

After the show's cancellation, Aukerman and Porter segued into writing film and television scripts, most notably Run Ronnie Run! and the first draft of the film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.

In 2002, Aukerman and Porter started the successful alternative comedy showcase Comedy Death-Ray, which ran Tuesday night at the M Bar in Los Angeles.

Porter had friends in common with M Bar owner Joe Reynolds, and visited the bar shortly after its opening.

Upon seeing how empty M Bar was, Porter convinced Reynolds to let him start a comedy show to help business.

In 2004, he and Porter received an "Additional Dialogue" credit on the animated feature film Shark Tale.

They went on to write an unproduced script for the sequel, as well as an unproduced Shrek spin-off film based on the character Puss in Boots.

The show eventually moved to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2005 to gain more creative freedom.

In 2007, a feature film script he wrote with Porter and Odenkirk, titled Kanan Rhodes: Unkillable Servant of Justice, was purchased by MTV Films with the intent of starring Rainn Wilson, although it currently remains unproduced.

Also in 2007, Aukerman released a self-described "joke record", Scott Aukerman's Koo Koo Roo's Greatest Hits, which featured Aukerman and Sarah Silverman Program writer Jon Schroeder shouting over current soft-rock hits.

This was put out in limited release on AST Records.

A Comedy Death-Ray CD taped partially in San Francisco at the SF Sketchfest and partially at their fourth-anniversary, all-night show in LA was released on Comedy Central Records on September 11, 2007.

The CD featured Aukerman, comedians David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Paul F. Tompkins, and other CDR regulars.

In 2007, Aukerman and Porter produced several internet shorts with Comedy Death-Ray comedians for the internet site Super Deluxe.

These included three episodes of The Brody Stevens Interview Challenge, and two episodes of Lake Charles Lake, in which he also co-starred.

In 2007, Aukerman and B. J. Porter created and produced a sketch pilot, titled ''The Right Now!

Show'', based on their show for Fox.

However, the network passed on ordering it to series in late 2007.

Cast member Casey Wilson was immediately hired as a featured cast member of Saturday Night Live after the news.

A short film made for the show, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, eventually moved to internet site Funny Or Die, becoming one of its most successful series.

They made more shorts in 2008, but the site was shut down and folded into Adult Swim before they could air.

In 2009, Aukerman and Porter wrote a pilot script for NBC, titled Privates.

The network ultimately passed on the show.

That year, Aukerman took on the role as head writer for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards and executive produced and co-wrote a pilot for Comedy Central, The New Andy Dick Show.

The network ultimately passed on ordering it to series.

In 2010, Aukerman wrote a feature film script for friend Zach Galifianakis for Fox, and he and Patton Oswalt co-wrote a television pilot for Fox, which the network ultimately passed on.

Later that year, Aukerman joined a "writers lab", writing film scripts for Imagine Entertainment.

In a 2015 interview, Aukerman said "I'm still doing that same show, just with celebrities instead of my high school cafeteria."

He started a short-lived band, The Naked Postmen, with Adrian Young, who went on to be the drummer for No Doubt.

While attending Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, he and fellow student B. J. Porter began writing together when they were both scripting and performing in a radio show called Lutz Radio.