Hey guys, Niki Novak here for Young Hollywood at San Diego Comic-Con with Scott Aukerman.

Great to see you.

Nice to see you again.

This is a bit of a Oh, you almost knocked your hat off.

I'm so excited.

A true Ghostbuster wouldn't do that.

True. I'd be a little more badass than that. We're kind of color coordinated.

We are sort of. I mean, my pants sort of look as tan as your legs.

Wait, do I look tan?

You do look tan.

I do. That was the goal.

Okay, congrats. You did it.

Congratulations. I thought it was dark enough. I think I'm anorexic. I'm Am I looking like the color of these pillows?

What do you do to get tan?

So, here's what you do, Scott. You go into a booth.

No, no thanks.

With uh a person

With a person?

Of the same sex. Okay. Um they have a host. Oh, almost saw you.

A host?

You have a thong and you do all these motions. I mean, you can join in with me if you like.

Okay, yeah, I'd love to.

So here's what you do when you get spray tan. First, you start out like this and you put your one leg out which I can't do in these shorts. One leg out so they can spray your inner thigh. Okay, so this one right here. So they spray up and down your inner thigh. Then you turn the other one out. And then they sort of do this. Okay, they do that. Okay, very good. Well, sort of. And then um basically then you go like this and they spray your inner of your arms and you turn around, they do the other thing and you do you kind of end up going like this.

Really?

So you're just making a bunch of poses because they're trying to get every crevice. Every crevice. Right. And they do get every crevice.

What what is the mixture that they're spraying on you?

I don't know. I'm sure it's some sort of chemical that's worse for you than the sun. Okay, so this is fake. This is In other words, this is There's nothing about me that is real right now. The hair, the lashes, none of it is real.

Okay. What do you look like as a real person, I wonder? I wonder if you'll ever show anyone?

No. Okay, yeah. No. Anyway, we're not here to talk about me.

Oh, really? This is like having you on my show. I like it.

It kind of is. I wouldn't mind being on your show. Come on. Come on by. But I feel like you've had so many great guests. I mean, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was a great guest. Yeah. How the heck would I ever fit into that equation that you'd be like, whoa. Yeah. We got.

Well, do you do you uh are you just a host or do you act as well?

Um I can do whatever you want me to do if it gets me on your show. Okay. Sure, you can be on. Sure I act. Uh I act every day.

Do Oh, this is acting too. Really? All this is fake and your personality. I'm a total nightmare.

Who you really actually like? Oh my gosh. So you've got the new seasons coming out.

Yeah, new season. Comedy Bang Bang to uh to it's out now tonight. Uh but if you're watching this in the future, it has been on.

That's right. It has been on. If you're watching it in the past, it will be on.

Yes. I'm just taking this quiz to see which Friends character I am.

Oh, who'd you get? Oh, no. Let me guess. Uh you're a rule-breaker but you get things done. You are fiercely loyal. You're attractive but kind of in a fun way. You're an Albert, right?

Nope, I got Jessica.

You can't be Jessica.

I got Jessica. We can both be Jessica.

God, you're being such a Marvin right now.

Whoa, that was a real Teresa thing to say.

Could you be any more Fred right now?

Oh, hell no. You take that back. You you you Joey.

Joey. Is that a character from Friends? I don't know. I've never even seen one episode.

Well, tell you what, you can be Joey then.

How you doing? Great guests this year again.

Yeah, they're pretty amazing. We have Michael Cera on the first one and uh James Marsden and Brie Larson.

Oh, you just had him on Young Hollywood. He's a delight. He's a delightful guy.

Yeah, he is, isn't he? He's really he's really talented. He's very funny in the episode. Don't let those good looks fool you. He's a funny.

His brother told him he had to do the show.

Oh, really? That was very nice of his brother. So thank you to his brother. Shout out to James Marsden's brother.

Yeah. He said, if you ever get invited to do a show called Comedy Bang Bang, you have to do it. Then he got the call. Are you serious? So he didn't put they didn't put the feelers out. Your people.

We put feelers out and he was like, oh, yeah, I want to do this because my brother told me to do it. Right. Um so, I thought it was really genius the way you guys sort of did like your press release because basically every guest that's coming on the show this season which I didn't know llamas I thought all llamas looked the same.

No, no, no, Niki. Niki, that is the wisdom of a fool. That's the wisdom of a spray tanner. No, all llamas are are like snowflakes or like uh snowman. They're all different. They're all different. For example, Michael Cera. I don't know if young you can zoom into that.

Mhm.

Is actually a quite a great looking llama.

Yes, we we we put every couch guest we we have their llama Doppelgänger here. Yeah. So uh we found llamas that look exactly like them.

You really did. Yeah. Um here's James.

There's James. He oh, rough around the edges as a llama. Yeah, he's a little better looking as a human. I would say.

He is. He kind of is. Yeah. Oh, no that's my selfie.

That's your selfie. Okay. All right. Um personally, I'm more interested in nose. So

Yeah, that's a deep dark hole, you know, you don't want to go down. Have you looked yourself up? I mean, I feel like you'd be fair game to see yourself as a llama.

Yeah, you know, I've Googled llama that looks like Scott Aukerman over and over and over and exactly zero images come up.

Really?

Yeah, it's one of those rare Google image searches that has zero finds in it.

Is it true that uh Paul Reubens was your favorite like it was sort of like the Holy Grail of of guests?

I was trying to get Paul Reubens on the podcast version of Comedy Bang Bang for a long time cuz I I saw Pee-wee's Big Adventure just really changed my life. I love that. I I don't know what you're doing. But uh

That was a really I didn't do my vocal warm-up. That is not even close to a Pee-wee Herman.

Well, do it. I I don't do impressions. There is actually a picture of me at 15 years old dressed up like Pee-wee Herman.

Are you serious?

On the Internet out there. I did it for a homecoming uh dance. Or not dance, a homecoming game halftime show. So, there's a picture of me with like a giant ear and I'm in the suit and I'm dressed like Pee-wee Herman.

That that's a whole stance. You just you just caught an essence of that.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Um and it sounded nothing like what you just did. But yeah, Pee-wee was great. He he did the podcast first and I had a really cool interview with him and then he came on the TV show and did like an awesome episode where he wrote all new Pee-wee bits like the ones he used to do on Letterman and stuff. It was great.

Yeah. I'm so excited for the film. Are you going to talk to him? Are you?

No.

What film? His new movie? I didn't know.

What are you doing with your life that you don't know about this? Uh yeah, he has a new uh a new movie coming out in March on Netflix.

Is it a Pee-wee thing?

Yeah. New Pee-wee movie.

Joe how do you say Mangianello?

Mangianello.

Joe Mangia, pecs and abs. Mangianello or ello? I don't know that's the other part of it. What's his name? Walk around pronouncing your name constantly so we know how to do it. So we know. You know? So somebody doesn't screw it up at the Emmys or something.

Every every five minutes I say Scott Aukerman so anyone in the vicinity knows exactly how to pronounce my name.

And our say Niki Novak.

Mhm. Yeah. So it's just like

What is your real name, Niki Novak? Is it really? You're you're like an undercover. You could double as like a detective. What is your real name?

Niki Novak. Is it really?

It's actually Niki No Chance.

Novak. No Chance? What is it?

That's my name. Do you have a nickname?

I don't have it. Well, uh the Auc was a nickname for a little while. Yeah.

Ever awkward? Uh am I ever awkward? Or Is that ever your nickname?

So the Auc. The Auc a little while. Yeah. That was my ATM code for a while. No longer.

I'm so excited for a second. I was going to like rob you. Hey, Scott. Because um you did the llama look-alike thing, I'm going back. What is your spirit animal?

Uh you know, when I sit and meditate and I imagine my soul coming out of my body and and transmogrifying into animal shape. Um I I think it's the Geico lizard.

Do you save people money?

Yeah, all the time. If they don't spend money on my shows and which most don't. So

What is your budget on your show for asking?

The budget on the show, it's not very high. I think uh uh you know, I I believe the budget 20 years ago when I was on Mr. Show. Yeah. Was higher for that show than it was for my show now.

Yeah. Taxidermy is expensive though.

Yeah, it is. And we and we weirdly, we we rent those.

Do you really?

Yeah, we rent them and they And they want them back.

Who want them back?

They do want them back. That's the thing. They do want them back. So we had to swap some in and out uh every once in a while because the the contract runs out. The other weird part about renting on the set is we rented a couch for the pilot uh the blue couch that we have. We rented it and then we gave it back because we didn't know if the show was going to get made. We gave it back to the storage house and then Mad Men put a five-year contract on it. And so we had to build the couch exactly like the one that we had rented because it had to match the pilot. So we had that couch was specially built.

Do you want me to rob Mad Men for you seeing as I rob guests? I mean, I could. They don't need it anymore. The show's over.

That's the thing. Yeah. I mean, now we can. That's We're now we can rent the couch again, I would imagine. Although now because we own this couch, we have all the guests sign the back of the couch. Nothing on the back of this one. You could be the first. You could be the first.

Oh, I love that. Um before I let you go, I want to I want to mention because we're at Comic-Con that you are a Marvel writer.

Yes, I wrote a couple of comics recently. So, I wrote a story in Deadpool 250 and uh I wrote a a story that just came out last week uh in Secret Wars Journal number three.

Now, which one was Hulk's psychiatrist?

That was Secret Wars Journal. Yeah. So it was uh I don't know if you know anything about comics. Um I mean, you're dressed like a Ghostbuster. So, you seem like a real nerd.

I know zero. I know zero.

Um yeah, so it's like a world where everyone is a Hulk instead of just Bruce Banner who is the Hulk uh becoming the Hulk. It's uh the gamma bomb uh exploded above the uh uh uh the entire city and so everyone in the city is a Hulk. And so it's a psychiatrist who is trying to deal with that.

Wow, that's deep.

Mhm. Yeah, very deep.

Thanks again. Great to see you. Congrats on the new season.

Thanks. Have me on the show, darn it.

Yeah, definitely. We'll have you on our show. Yeah, I mean uh what do you want to do on it? That was like a yeah, yeah, yeah. Hit me up.