This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today I am joined by a comedian who, in my opinion, just might be the most consistently funny person on the planet. You know him from Siren Night Live, Portlandia, and documentary now. His new album is called 100 Sound Effects. Fred Armisen, welcome to The Last Laugh. Thank you, and thanks for the kind words. Yeah, I mean it. You have made me laugh, you know, just as much as anybody else over the years, so I'm very thrilled to have you here. Oh, that's so nice. I'm glad. I'm

glad that worked out. So, you know, I want to talk about your, your number one bestselling album.

But the thing that I wanted to start with first is you did this bit on Jimmy Fallon show a

couple of months ago that I just can't get out of my head and I've watched it

probably too many times at this point. You're playing the drummer performing Diana Ross's

I'm coming out like it's the first time he's ever heard it. And to me it was this sort of perfect

encapsulation of your comedy, this blend of music and comedy. So I wanted to just ask you about that.

And where did that come from?

Is there a story behind coming up with that bit?

No, there's no big story behind coming up with it.

It was just, it's a song that I love.

Also, everybody loves that song.

That's like, you know, it a uh a sort of timeless hit um

and uh i was just listening to the intro and it just it's almost like something that sort

just occurred to me you know because there's that stuttered uh drumming like the starts and stops

for those fills and it doesn't quite get into the groove yet,

which is a good effect. It's really good for anticipation. But then it just, I don't know,

it just sort of, I just thought, oh, what if this drummer just actually didn't know how the song

went and is just trying to find his way into it.

This is like a concert stage,

and let's say that Diana Ross is like right there at the microphone.

Yeah.

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