Remember DEVO? (with Fred Armisen)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The one and only Fred Armisen (Portlandia, Saturday Night Live) stopped by the podcast this week to discuss his first concert experience: Seeing DEVO at Radio City Music Hall on October 31st, 1981, right down the street from where Fear were destroying the SNL set at 30 Rock. In this largely music-themed episode, we also discuss Fred's love of all things goth, playing drums alongside his heroes like The Clash and his personal connection with Halloween that goes back to childhood. Equal parts hilarious, educational and sentimental, this truly is an episode for the ages—and for those who want a quick and easy way to get rid of their garbage!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.4	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:11.4	Who are extremely artful, if I do say so myself.
0:14.4	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Now, Jonah, do you remember when I was about to be a senior in high school, and I had just
0:34.6	finished treatment for childhood leukemia, which everyone, I'm totally fine now, but I just finished my treatment. And I had just finished treatment for childhood leukemia, which everyone, I'm totally fine now.
0:39.5	But I just finished my treatment.
0:41.2	And I had like an end of chemo party for a bunch of people in my grade.
0:45.3	It was at our house, a lot in our backyard.
0:47.8	And we had like a very special performance.
0:50.5	Yeah.
0:50.9	I got together a couple of my buddies.
0:53.3	I believe it was Michael Gableman on drums,
0:56.5	maybe Lee Rollins on bass. Okay. And we were just a power trio and we just played a bunch of music
1:03.5	in the backyard, very loud, like full, full drum kit. And I can't remember we play, but I would
1:08.3	imagine like probably misits covers or something.
1:11.6	Yeah.
1:11.9	I think my friends thought it was very cool.
1:14.4	Yeah.
1:14.8	I think we jammed a little bit.
1:16.3	There's probably some slap bass involved.
1:19.1	And then at a certain point, the cops came.
1:22.3	Yes.
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