IFC’s upcoming Documentary Now! from Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers got the perfect cherry on top of their fictional parody docu-series when they landed Dame Helen Mirren as a host.
Get your first look of how pitch perfect this series is going to be here then mark down Thurs. Aug. 20th 10PM for the premiere on IFC.
There are other things on TV besides the return of True Detective tonight and one of them doesn’t require you to change the channel.
Tim Robbins and Jack Black delve into the absurdities of geopolitical snafus on HBO’s latest comedy series The Brink starting at 10:30PM on HBO.
The televised special for this year’s Peabody Awards premieres at 9PM on Pivot and you can see what hijinks host Fred Armisen got himself into as well as that kiss between Tina Fey and Amy Schumer and more.
Following their great roundtable discussion with some of comedy’s most prominent women, The Hollywood Reporter sat down and did the male counterpart in this panel discussion series about the ins-and-outs of comedy as well as doing great/bad impressions.
Amongst those at THR’s table are Fred Armisen…
…and Don Cheadle.
Bill Hader and Fred Armisen seemingly get to live out a fantasy of playing characters throughout real life inspired fake historical documentary shorts in the series Documentary Now! that they developed with Seth Meyers.
Watch the trailer featuring Hader and Armisen dressed up in plenty of wonderfully outlandish costumes as wonderfully outlandish characters, then tune into the premiere on IFC on Aug. 20th at 10PM.
(via EW)
We can’t wait to see what Hader, Armisen, and Meyers get a former Queen Elizabeth to say.
Helen Mirren is set to host the parody documentary series created by Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Seth Meyers called Documentary Now! coming to IFC on Aug. 20th.
We wonder if this will take her down more comedic roads, more roles like she’s had in Red, if this really clicks.
Yesterday, Jenny Lewis and Mikal Cronin released their music videos for “She’s Not Me” and “Say”, respectively, that offer more evidence that music videos are on their way back and are more than just bands in different clothes playing in front of different back drops.
In Lewis’ She’s Not Me, Vanessa Bayer, Zosia Mamet, Fred Armisen, and more semi-recreate Jenny’s past as a former child actress.
Mikal Cronin enlists the help of Kurt Braunohler, Jonah Ray, Allan McLeod, Nick Thune, and Nelson Franklin to be in his video for Say, though he may have spoke too soon (pun absolutely intended).
Along with JASH’s 5K music video series and any music video Tom Scharpling directs, maybe we don’t need MTV to play music videos ever again.
An Al Capone Festival in Iceland, the first documentary about the Inuit, drug cartels, a band called Blue Jean Committee, are just a few “subjects” they’ll be covering.
The minds of Armisen, Hader, and Meyers have banded together to make up fake history of which to do documentaries about. The series, which has been ordered for six episodes at IFC, is appropriately called Documentary Now!
Fred and Bill will star in the series donning a plethora of costumes and accents.
Look for Documentary Now! on IFC starting Thurs. Aug. 20th at 10PM.
This definitely tops the other recent casting announcements.
Thus far, Zoolander 2 has Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson returning in their roles, but they also have Billy Zane who appeared in a cameo returning as well as the additions of Kristen Wiig and Penelope Cruz.
Now, Fred Armisen is in the mix according to Ben Stiller and his Instagram’s.
We don’t know what character he’s playing, but we can definitely see him perhaps as someone avenging the defeat of Mugatu or the son of the evil DJ.
(via Deadline)
Add another thing to the amazing set of things that Fred Armisen is juggling including bandleader at Late Night with Seth Meyers, doing Portlandia.
The prestigious Peabody Awards that honor excellence in broadcasting in all forms is now getting an overhaul that will include the ceremony being televised on Pivot and hosted by none other than Fred Armisen.
Armisen already has awards hosting experience under his belt, most recently with The Spirit Awards. The special that will make it to air will not be live, so we wonder if Armisen will have even more up his sleeve.
Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell put together a nice 6:30 of jokes and song to open up The 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards yesterday.
It was to the point, covered the best feature nominees, and had both Wayne Federman and Sean Conroy as audience plants, which made us happy.
Watch it here.
Indeed, IFC has ordered a sixth and seventh season of one of their most successful series, Portlandia. Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein and director Jonathan Krisel amidst all their other projects will be staying staying together for awhile and we can only hope that means more Brunch Special type things coming down the pipeline soon.
Looking to create an art installation that will single handedly upset the establishment with things that most people leave in their curb for garbage trucks to pick up?
Well, look no further than Portlandia’s Shocking Art Store complete with guest Shepherd Fairey.
It shouldn’t be too long before a real version of this exists if it doesn’t already.
Did you hear? These fine people are co-hosting the Film Independent #SpiritAwards! Feb. 21. http://t.co/SlNcJrrP80 pic.twitter.com/RTEhghH6UY
— Film Independent (@filmindependent) January 14, 2015
The Film Independent Spirit Awards has been hosted by the likes of Patton Oswalt and Seth Rogen. They’re staying the wheelhouse with hosts as they’ve just landed Kristen Bell and Fred Armisen to oversee the awards ceremonies.
Maybe, if we’re lucky, Bell will have to handle a sloth and Armisen will have to go head-to-head in an impression off with Bill Hader.
The Spirit Awards will air live on Feb. 21st at 2PM on IFC.
During their appearance on Conan last night, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein gave us a little insight into what their like together while shooting Portlandia, specifically how they sort of can get on each other’s nerves.
You can sort of see where a lot of the great tension in certain sketches is built just from their conversation on national television. Watch it here.
Over 6 years ago, Largo was not the gorgeous theatre that you see at The Coronet these days. It was an even smaller venue with a bar in Fairfax Village here in LA.
However, even back then, a mix of some of the best comedians and innovative musicians and singers all came together under the roof of Largo to play.
In 2008, a concert film was released of the old Largo with the likes of Fred Armisen, Fiona Apple, Greg Behrendt, Paul F. Tompkins, Elliott Smith, Sarah Silverman, Greg Proops, Sarah Silverman, Flight of the Conchords, Patton Oswalt, Louis CK, Zach Galifianakis, Aimee Mann, Andrew Bird, and more all performing.
Now, it’s online for you to enjoy on Vimeo in beautiful black and white. Watch LARGO here.
The latest episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee takes Jerry Seinfeld all the way to Portland, OR to grab a coffee of the best fair trade, organic coffee on either side of the bridges in Portland with none other than Portlandia’s Fred Armisen.
The classic Saab that Jerry picks fits perfectly with Portland as they hit up food trucks, a taxidermy shop, and more commenting on how wonderfully Portland-y Portland is.
Whether you believe it or not, we are all on the verge of a fifth season of Portlandia.
Come Thursday, Jan. 8th at 10PM on IFC, this latest season will premiere and “Jeff Goldblum, Kumail Nanjiani, Ed Begley Jr. and Mayor for Life Kyle MacLachlan — over the season’s ten episodes, Portlandia will welcome SNL star Vanessa Bayer, Steve Buscemi, Shepard Fairey, Greta Gerwig, Peter Giles, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Anna Gunn, Justin Long, Jane Lynch, Natasha Lyonne, Seth Meyers, Brigitte Nielsen, Parker Posey, Paul Reubens, Paul Simon, Olivia Wilde and Oscar the Grouch."
You’ll get a better idea of what’s in store by watching this fancy, new "epic” trailer.
Bill Burr, Amy Schumer, Fred Armisen, Kevin Hart, Jimmy Fallon, and more will all be driving and grabbing in coffee in style with one Jerry Seinfeld in the fifth season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Just check out the trailer and watch Fallon be astonished, Burr smoke cigars during the day, and Hart be hesitant about getting in a fast car.
Season 5 of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee premieres Nov. 6th.
From Nov. 7th-9th, Austin is hosting yet another festival with an amazing line-up of music and comedy, Fun Fun Fun Fest.
This year, Fred Armisen, Jonah Ray, Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, Neil Hamburger, Jon Daly, Rachel Bloom, Joe Mande, W. Kamau Bell, Doug Mellard, Jake Flores, Air Sex Championships, Cody Hustak, and way more are coming to Auditorium Shores.
Find a reason to get to Austin if you’re not already there and get your passes ASAP.
(via Variety)
The upcoming comedy feature Fresno was already intriguing enough following Judy Greer and Natasha Lyonne as two dysfunctional sisters that are hotel maids attempting to dispose of a body.
Now, the likes of Aubrey Plaza, Ron Livingston, Molly Shannon, and Fred Armisen have joined the cast.
From the looks of it, Fresno has never been more appealing.
While on The Late Show with David Letterman this week, Jerry Seinfeld announced the premiere date of the brand new season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Come Nov. 6th, Seinfeld will unveil new episodes with new cars with the likes of Fred Armisen, Jimmy Fallon, and more. An episode of Joan Rivers was planned, but, as you well know, she passed away less than a month ago.
Also, note that this will be the 5th season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which makes us wonder if Jerry will keep this show running as long as the 9 seasons of Seinfeld.
IFC’s biggest series are getting into production for their latest seasons and, of course, they have quite the guest star list.
Pitchfork reports that a nice roster of bands will be featured on Comedy Bang! Bang! including The National, Lonely Island, Future Islands, and The Flaming Lips. Presumably, there will be some great jamming between them and Comedy Bang! Bang’s band leader Reggie Watts.
Splitsider has found through Carrie Brownstein’s Instagram that Natasha Lyonne, Jeff Goldblum, and Jane Lynch, amongst others will join Fred Armisen and Carrie in Portlandia.
So, we can’t wait for the premiere of either of these.
Maya Rudolph’s Variety Show Special Premiering in May on NBC
Indeed, The Maya Rudolph Show is premiering on NBC on May 19th at 10PM and is set to have Fred Armisen, Chris Parnell, Craig Robinson, Kristen Bell and more. Musical guests such as Janelle Monae will be on the special as well making for what could be almost an SNL episode from 10 years ago.
Season 3 of Comedy Bang! Bang! Guest Stars Your Usual Favorites, Tony Hawk, Jenny Lewis and More
Even though season 3 of Comedy Bang! Bang! on IFC doesn’t have the massive episode order that season 4 will with a whopping 40 ordered in 2015, the guest star list for this season is still pretty great and pretty big.
Your usual suspects of Paul F. Tompkins, Bob Odenkirk, Lizzy Caplan, Nick Offerman, Fred Armisen, Weird Al Yankovic as well as the likes of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, Jenny Lewis, Aimee Mann, Kate McKinnon, and more will be stopping by to have a moment with Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts next month, starting May 8th.
SXSW Comedy Announces 2014 Lineup Has Everyone From Bill Cosby to The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail
Bill Cosby, Pete Holmes, Greg Proops, Tim Meadows, TJ Miller, Nate Bargatze, James Adomian, Fred Armisen, Karen Kilgariff, Matt Besser, Scott Aukerman, Jerrod Carmichael, Todd Barry, Chris Gethard, Eugene Mirman Byron Bowers, Good Neighbor, Drennon Davis and The Imaginary Radio Program, The Grawlix, Jake Weisman, ASSSSCAT, Midnight Run with Andy Haynes, Comedy Living Room, The Meltdown with Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani and so many more are all coming down to Austin, TX in Mar. 8th-15th for SXSW.
You did read that awesome line up that includes Bill Cosby is coming to SXSW, right? Good, get your tickets/passes now.