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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Fred Armisen

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Fred Armisen (SNL, Portlandia, Documentary Now!) is a comedian, actor, and musician. Fred joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he doesn’t speak up when he’s uncomfortable, why he will eat something he didn’t order, and why he doesn’t like to return purchases. Fred and Dax talk about how fun it is to rediscover music that you love, what interviewing your friends is like, and Fred’s unique family heritage. Fred explains how his musical career led him to comedy, what living in different cities has taught him, and what it was like to play in Devo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dax Randall Shepherd. I'm joined by Monica

0:05.4

Lillipadman. Hello. Hello. We have an old friend on today. Shocking that's taken this

0:11.6

long for Fred to come by. Oh my gosh. It's almost an insult. It's shameful actually. I'd

0:16.5

say it's shameful. Fred Armason is a comedian and actor and a musician. I mean, fuck is

0:23.3

this guy been funny for years and years and years. So funny. So original and bizarre and

0:29.5

beautiful and wonderful. Yes. Of course, Seriant Live, Portlandia, so many great things. That

0:34.5

documentary now series is so fantastic. So funny. He is on tour comedy for musicians, but everyone

0:41.8

is welcome. Is the name of his tour comedy for musicians, but everyone is welcome. Please

0:46.3

go online and get tickets and go support Fred. He's outrageously talented and every way

0:50.9

a person can be talented. We haven't kissed. I can't say every way, but I bet he's a really

0:56.0

good kisser. I bet he is. Yeah. Tender. Please enjoy Fred Armason.

0:59.9

He's an outchance man. He's an outchance man. He's an outchance man. I was just talking

1:17.3

about you. You're behind your back. That's a coincidence. I can't say. You can't say that's

1:24.0

fair. That's so lame. But I'll do a couple of station IDs or whatever and then we can

1:30.5

like, yeah, we just have a couple of transition bits. I think you'd be great. I got a list

1:33.9

of the characters I want you to do. You don't need any run-up time. Do you can just kind

1:37.9

of drop into them as I list them? I know. I do need a lot of run-up time, actually. Yeah.

1:41.9

Okay. It's the worst part of it. A bit of an impasse because you have one at a time

1:46.0

and we got 20. And I've got I need to. How are you doing? Good to see you. It's so good

1:50.3

to see you. It's really fun to have you here. It's shocking that it took the show. I know.

1:54.2

I know. I think we talked about it years ago. Yeah. I think the very first time we were

1:58.7

doing a live show in Brooklyn and I assumed you were in New York. I bet a lot of people

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