35. Fred Armisen: The Secret Comedy Rules of Portlandia and SNL

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Mike and Fred have a candid chat about the secret rules of Portlandia and the comedy writing lessons of SNL. Fred describes how they arrived at the title for “Portlandia” and Mike describes how he arrived at his brand new solo show title that he debuts in this episode. All that and Fred shares his Mike Birbiglia impression, his Ira Glass impression, and explains why a parody of This American Life doesn’t quite work on SNL. https://www.sweetrelief.org/

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0:00.0	Everybody it's Mike and we are back with a new episode of Working It Out.
0:10.6	It is my honor and privilege to be joined today by Fred Armason, one of the great comedians
0:19.8	and actors and writers living today.
0:24.6	Before we begin, I just want to mention the worldwide comedy pizza party happening this
0:32.8	week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Tuesday, Saturday.
0:37.5	We added 5 p.m. Eastern so that our UK friends might be able to watch that, I think, around
0:45.0	10 o'clock their time and in other parts of the world.
0:48.2	And then we added a show where all the proceeds go to Texas Food Banks on Sunday.
0:55.8	That has guests Jimmy Kimmel and Chris Bianco, who is a world famous, pizza chef on Wednesday.
1:03.8	We have Pete Holmes as our special guest and we are announcing new special guests very
1:09.4	soon.
1:10.4	Today on the show we have Fred Armason, who is one of the people who just makes me laugh
1:16.9	harder than anybody.
1:18.9	I mean he's a writer and star of Saturday Night Live and Port Landia.
1:26.1	He's the band leader for Late Night with Seth Meyers.
1:29.6	He's lived 10 lives in show business.
1:33.2	He started out playing drums with the Blue Man group and playing in punk bands and he's
1:40.6	just sort of done it all.
1:43.5	He's an incredible impressionist to boot and we have a great chat and we work out one
1:48.6	of my new stories and I hope you enjoy my conversation with Fred Armason.
1:57.7	Two SNL questions.
2:08.0	You could ask a billion SNL questions.
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