Fred Armisen Can Do It All

Hawk vs Wolf

Paragon Collective

Sports, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Comedy icon Fred Armisen (SNL, Portlandia, Documentary Now!) joins Tony and Jason to discuss Australia, English bands, playing drums for Devo, Fred interviewing other musicians, Auditioning for SNL, Tony Hawk’s surprise cameo on SNL, Origin of the Californians, How Fred creates a character, The Cure cover, Text Miscommunications, Writing on SNL and Portlandia, Fred Armisen in Portland, Stereotyping cities, Spinal Tap, Fred and The Clash, Paul McCartney, First time being recognized, How to know when it’s time to say goodbye, Bill and Fred breaking, Laughing so hard you forget where you are, Tony and Fred getting kicked out of a restaurant Head to https://www.squarespace.com/HAWK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code HAWK.  See Jason On Tour! https://thejasonellis.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What city are you originally from?
0:01.2	Melbourne.
0:02.0	I love it there.
0:03.0	You get a new Australian bonding with me right now?
0:04.6	I love, I booked a tour there speaking of live shows only because I wanted to go to Australia.
0:09.8	I was like, wasn't promoting anything.
0:11.8	And you'd never been? nope as is 2019 but and I was like I don't
0:17.6	care book shows I'm gonna I need to make this happen I just want to to be there. God, I love it.
0:23.2	You had fun?
0:23.9	Loved it.
0:24.7	Yeah, I would like to go back.
0:26.0	You don't carry like a lot of pride about it.
0:27.9	You're sort of like, you keep in your back pocket.
0:30.2	It's kind of, there's a, there was a section of my life where all I want to do is be a pro skateboarder in Australia
0:37.4	All it wanted to do was not allow me to be a pro skateboarder and America embraced me to be a pro skateboard.
0:45.3	So there was a time there where I just, America was so much better.
0:50.4	I mean guess where Tony Hawks from you know San Diego USA America where you
0:55.7	Oh I see I see what you mean I thought it was I thought was a true question
0:59.8	I was like I you know I thought the answer was going to be like he was actually born in Australia
1:04.9	No no it's America and then like all the like I got into supercross and it's like Ricky car Michael.
1:11.1	Yeah, he's a great American and it's like I love
1:13.5	MMA and it's like the UFC is American and it's the greatest
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