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Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

002 - Fred Armisen: Actor, Comedian, Writer, Producer and Musician

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9609 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Fred Armisen on being funny in Spanish, lucky breaks, and why failing when you’re young can serve you well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.7

Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

0:35.9

I'm Rhett Miller.

0:49.6

That's when they got Wheels Off. We started up. messy reality of the creative life. I'm Rhett Miller. Fred Armeson is a musician, actor and comedian. He was one of the longest tenured S&L cast members,

0:57.1

making a name for himself as a terrific impressionist and a versatile character actor.

1:02.5

His consistently hilarious show, Portlandia, just wrapped after eight seasons. His Netflix comedy

1:09.7

special, Stand Up for Drummers, is a favorite among comedy fans as well as musicians.

1:16.6

And his sweetly funny new Amazon series, Forever is impossible to discuss for fear of spoilers.

1:24.3

He's joined us after a day spent behind the kit working as the band leader on late

1:28.8

night with Seth Myers. Welcome, Fred Armisen.

1:39.3

Ladies and gentlemen, my guest is Fred Armisen. Hello, Fred. Hi, how you doing? I'm

1:43.5

really good. How are you good we know

1:45.7

each other already yes f yr and we did a video that it's funny because the staging of the video was a lot

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