While we’re all used to seeing Fred Armisen play Garth, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Ian Rubbish on “Saturday Night Live,” on last Saturday’s episode of SNL, his Portlandia co-star, co-creator and co-writer Carrie Brownstein showed up on stage at Studio 8H, too. Carrie joined Fred for the final sketch of SNL’s season finale. Fred was playing…
As any Portlandia fan knows, the show’s star and creator Fred Armisen has to get the gear. He’s technology obsessed, which can occasionally cause trouble for him like that time when he got stuck in a technology loop. Even though he knows the risks, Fred loves gadgets and is usually on the forefront of most…
A few weeks ago, on the set of his day job (night job?) on Saturday Night Live, Portlandia‘s Fred Armisen introduced the world to his Margaret Thatcher-loving, Sex Pistols-inspired punk Ian Rubbish during a sketch on “The History of Punk.” (If you missed it, you can watch it below.) Then, much to the surprise of…
There’s good news and there’s bad news. What do you want first? Okay, the bad news is that the season of “Out There” is over. Yep, Chris and Chad and Terry and Sharla and everyone else have wrapped and you’ll have to find something else to do until “Maron” premieres on Friday, May 3 at…
The nominees for the 2013 Webby Awards were announced and guess what? Portlandia‘s sleek and sassy website was nominated for not one, but two awards! When it comes to the Webbys, it really is an honor just to be nominated as the annual event honors the best sites, features, series, design and more on the…
Fred Armisen likes to keep busy, so with some time off from both “Portlandia” and “Saturday Night Live,” Fred Armisen had to find something to do with his down time last night. So he swung by the set of Watch What Happens Live for a rapid-fire round of “Fred Armi-Say Whaat?” with Andy Cohen and…
TIME Magazine recently listed 140 of their top Twitter feeds for 2013 and guess who was there nestled amid such luminaries as Lil B, Bill Gates, Chelsea Clinton and fake Prince? Portlandia’s very own Carrie Brownstein. There is no doubt that the recognition is well-deserved. Carrie’s Twitter feed (@Carrie_Rachel) is perceptive, observational, incisive and laugh-out-loud…
The Canadian journalist/performance artist talked to Fred Armisen at SXSW 2013
As you know, Portlandia isn’t really into plastic bags. In fact, if you don’t bring your own bag to the grocery store you can raise not only a few eyebrows, but a real ruckus, too. If you haven’t watched what happens when a visiting Jack McBrayer forgets his bag in Portlandia, you should watch it…
There were a lot of great moments throughout the third season of Portlandia, but the characters that may have managed to upstage Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein were the rats, their anthropomorphic rat personas. When we first met the rodents during Portlandia’s season two, the mischievous threesome of animated rat versions of Carrie, Fred and…
