Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast The Book

A New York Times Bestseller

From Scott Aukerman and the comedic geniuses who created the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast comes a book that brings the chaotic, hilarious, and outrageous characters of the pod to the page.

Foreword by Patton Oswalt and Bob Odenkirk
Preface by Jack Quaid and Tatiana Maslany
Introduction by Lin-Manuel Miranda and “Weird Al” Yankovic

In Comedy Bang! Bang!: The Podcast: The Book, Scott Aukerman transports readers into the zany world of the popular podcast. The book features anecdotes and opinions from the show’s wild cast of recurring characters, matching the show in tone and wackiness, with essays, lists, plays, nods to running bits, and four-color illustrations throughout, helping to bring the wacky, satirical, undefinable world of Comedy Bang! Bang! to life in new and surprising ways!

Curated by Aukerman, the book also features pieces from Bobby Moynihan, Paul F. Thompkins, Ben Schwartz, Mary Holland, Andy Daly, Lauren Lapkus, Paul Brittain, Jessica McKenna, Ego Nwodim, and many more, all reprising roles of characters they’ve created for the podcast, taking readers even deeper inside the lives of these off-the-wall personalities. If you’ve ever enjoyed a Solo Bolo or wondered what makes Bob Ducca tick, this book is chock-full of inside jokes, character studies, and hilarity!

Scott Aukerman is the host of the podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! He is the cocreator and director of the web series Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, which was expanded into a feature film for Netflix. Aukerman created, hosted, wrote, and produced the parody talk show Comedy Bang! Bang!, which aired on IFC for five seasons. He began his career as a writer and performer on the HBO sketch comedy Mr. Show with Bob and David.