Showing All "Fred Armisen" Posts
Feb 6th 20 Comments
Portlandia is a show by, for, and about indie rock types, so it's no surprise that indie big dogs show up in sketches every so often. This past weekend's episode featured two. St. Vincent's Annie… Read Story »
Jan 4th 7 Comments
At a recent San Francisco stop on the Portlandia tour, Thao & Mirah joined the show's two stars, Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, to cover Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It," basically one of the most… Read Story »
Jan 3rd 1 Comment
At 1:30 in the embed below, you hear Cameron Crowe DJ a Stone Gossard composition called "Chinese," a '90s-era Pearl Jam demo, on Sirius/XMU's Pearl Jam station. Crowe says a bit of it made it to the… Read Story »
Dec 19th, 2011 6 Comments
SNL's writers and former champions made this weekend's holiday episode a must see. Between Jimmy Fallon hosting, and the consequent cameo-returns of Weekend Updaters Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the… Read Story »
Dec 16th, 2011 2 Comments
It's poetic that after roasting everyone's DJ nights, the Portlandia stars sorta DJ for us. Well, for iTunes. I hope nobody is surprised that they are very good at this.
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Dec 7th, 2011 3 Comments
Portlandia, the nominally Portland-specific but essentially all-purpose alt-culture-skewering sketch comedy show from the wonderful minds of fellow lifechampions Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein,… Read Story »
Nov 23rd, 2011 3 Comments
Portlandia, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's PDX-centric sketch comedy show, returns for its second season in January. And around the same time the show comes back, Armisen and Brownstein… Read Story »
Nov 9th, 2011 2 Comments
The first season of Portlandia, the IFC sketch-comedy show from Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, had a ton of cameos from indie-ish celebs; consider, if you will, last year's segment "The Deuce,"… Read Story »
Mar 17th, 2011 5 Comments
A few years back we hosted Fred Armisen's comedic five part video guide to SXSW 1998. Then we switched video platforms and the clips were swallowed by our system. Whoops! We've finally rescued them… Read Story »
Jan 14th, 2011 7 Comments
"The dream of the '90s is alive in Portland," the place where young people go to retire. Or so goes the opening musical sequence of Portlandia, the new sketch comedy of Fred Armisen and… Read Story »
