263. Fred Armisen

Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker

Forever Dog

Comedy

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this special pre-taped one-on-one conversation between Tim Heidecker and the great Fred Armisen. Topics covered include: why Fred left his music career for comedy, the societal pressure of sobriety, the glory days of Saturday Night Live, why streaming ruined live television, Fred's take on playing Uncle Fester in Wednesday, Portlandia's hidden political commentary, Fred's biggest comedic influences, Tim's take on believing in God, why COVID ruined live touring shows, and how the industry is headed in the wrong direction.

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0:00.0	Office hours.
0:10.0	Hi, hi, Fred. So sorry, man.
0:13.2	No problem. Good to see you.
0:15.0	For doing this. Thank you for having me.
0:16.5	You, yes, yes.
0:18.2	You got everything you need here. I've got to get miced up.
0:21.8	All right.
0:23.2	I had some fucking guys doing shit on my house up there,
0:26.4	and they wouldn't let me get out of it.
0:30.1	But anyway.
0:31.2	Well, maybe they'll watch this, and they'll say, you know,
0:34.5	he's talking about us.
0:37.1	All right.
0:39.3	And now, did you help yourself here? I'm good. You're good?
0:41.3	I'm gonna have a little of tequila here.
0:44.3	Oh, we've got glasses down there.
0:46.3	How do people sit here?
0:49.3	Whatever you want, whatever makes you happy, whatever is comfortable.
0:53.3	Where's the ice? I don't know. I shouldn't have ice here. I don't see the ice. Oh, there it is. So you come all... Is it hard for you to get over here? Was it crazy with the 405 and everything? It's easy. Yeah? I don't want to say where we are, but let me, you know, if we're in that part of town where it can be crazy on a Friday. Yeah, I know. It was totally fine. And you have a very nice place. Well, this isn't, I mean, this is just a little, you know, I don't, I really only use this space here to do this. Yeah. No, I understand.
1:27.9	But thanks for having me.
1:29.3	Yeah.
1:29.7	You know, it's, uh.
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