Scott Aukerman

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Scott Aukerman (born July 2, 1970 in Savannah, Georgia) is an actor and writer best known for appearing on the late 1990s sketch comedy television program, Mr. Show. He, along with fellow Mr. Show writer/performer B.J. Porter, started the Los Angeles alternative comedy show Comedy Death-Ray.

Aukerman grew up in Orange County, California, studying acting and musical theatre and writing plays in his spare time. Whilst studying at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, he met his future writing partner B.J. Porter. In 1995, at the request of their friends, they started performing at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles under the monicker "The Fun Bunch."

Mr. Show co-creator Bob Odenkirk was in the audience for the second performance, and soon tapped the duo to write and occasionally perform on the HBO series in its fourth season. This led to an Emmy nomiation in 1999 for Aukerman and the rest of the staff.

After the demise of the sketch comedy series, Aukerman, along with Porter, segued into writing other film and television scripts, most notably Run Ronnie Run, the Mr. Show movie from New Line Cinema, and the first draft of the Tenacious D movie. In 2003, they recieved an "Additional Dialogue" credit on Dreamworks Animation's animated feature Shark Tale.

Additionally, Aukerman has appeared as an actor in Run Ronnie Run, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Melvin Goes to Dinner, and episodes of NBC's Just Shoot Me, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, and USA Network's The Huntress. He had a major role in the straight-to-DVD movie Cake Boy, released by Kung Fu Records, written and directed by, and starring, his friends in Orange County punk band The Vandals, for whom he has also performed background vocals on their albums. In 2007 he is slated to appear in Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program.

In 2002, Aukerman & Porter started the hugely successful alternative comedy showcase Comedy Death-Ray, which occurs every Tuesday night at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. A CD taped at their shows is due to be released on Comedy Central Records in 2007.

In 2006, it was reported that Aukerman was hired to write sketches for The Untitled Onion Movie, a film based on the popular humor newspaper The Onion.

Also in 2006, Aukerman appeared in a sketch with Bob Odenkirk on the Brian Posehn album LIVE in: Nerd Rage.