182. Fred Armisen Returns: Is He Joking?

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off a few gigs featuring on John Mulaney’s new tour, Mike and Fred sit down for his first in-studio appearance on Working it Out. They discuss Fred’s SNL audition, his best sketch writing advice, and the manners of navigating video exhibits in museums. Plus, Fred borrows Mike’s guitar to demonstrate how cultures around the world play the acoustic guitar.

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0:00.0	What's the strangest thing that gets served to you video-wise in your algorithm?
0:06.4	Plain crashes.
0:08.3	What?
0:10.1	Plain crashes.
0:12.1	Filmed by civilians.
0:13.5	Oh, God.
0:14.4	I'm like, nope, stick to musicians and people making weird art and stuff.
0:18.8	So all of a sudden, by the way, it's been happening a lot.
0:21.8	Oh, God.
0:22.8	They're all this.
0:23.6	Like, hey, she got the way.
0:25.4	Oh, no.
0:26.4	Oh, shit.
0:27.9	Whoa.
0:32.1	That is the voice of the great Fred Armisen.
0:35.0	You know Fred Armisen, Saturday Night Live, in Portlandia and Wednesday,
0:41.1	which just had its second season premiere on Netflix in the last couple weeks. He was on the
0:47.3	podcast a few years ago. He is back. He had a new album called 100 Sound Effects, which is exactly
0:54.0	that, 100 sound effects, which is exactly that, 100 sound effects.
0:56.2	It is so funny and unique and very Fred Armisen.
1:01.3	There's nothing like it.
1:02.5	I was just on tour with Fred.
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