First look at Portlandia’s Season 7 on IFC
by I’m in Portland, Ore., to cover the All Jane Comedy Festival, so that makes today’s first sneak peek at season seven of IFC’s Portlandia extra-keeping-it-weird, …
Tag: Fred Armisen
Fred Armisen: How to fake being a drummer
When Fred Armisen isn’t remaking Portland into Portlandia with Carrie Brownstein for IFC (their sixth-season finale airs Thursday), he’s playing drums for Late Night with …
Fred and Carrie have dinner with Louis CK on “Portlandia”
In this week’s episode of Portlandia (season 6, episode 7), Fred and Carrie buy tickets to a Louis CK show in Portland, only to have …
The launch of Broadway Video’s Más Mejor comedy channel
Más Mejor, the new comedy channel by and for Latino comedians, has launched today. It comes from Broadway Video and puts two of that company’s …
Horatio Sanz, Fred Armisen help launch new Broadway Video outpost for Latino comedy: Mas Mejor
Former Saturday Night Live stars Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen are helping their boss’s Broadway Video maintain some sense of diversity by incubating young Latino …
James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders impersonation takes over @midnight
Donald Trump impersonations are a dime a dozen, although, obviously any Trump impersonator or The Donald himself would tell you that’s worth billions of dimes. …
Humorous homages, deep laughs: From SNL to IFC and “Documentary Now!”
It’s no secret that some of Saturday Night Live‘s most striking work in recent years has not come via live TV, but come alive via …
A second seasoning of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail on Comedy Central
The second season of stand-up showcase, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, premieres late-night Tuesday on Comedy Central after @midnight. If you’re lucky in Los …
SNL #40.13 RECAP: Host J.K. Simmons, musical guest D’Angelo
J.K. Simmons is winning all of the awards this season for his turn as the loud band conductor in the film Whiplash, and everyone rightfully …
SNL #40.10 RECAP: Host Amy Adams, musical guest One Direction and Christmas cameos from Mike Myers, Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen
Last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live was so solid, they couldn’t possibly carry that momentum into the final show of 2014, could they? Well, …