Some surprises on SNL last night. The first being that the show was sorta funny (Videogum will post the best bits tomorrow), and the second being Yeah Yeah Yeahs' decision to play 5-year-old Valentine's mixtape staple "Maps" instead of a... SNL'">CONTINUE READING YEAH YEAH YEAHS TAKE "ZERO," "MAPS" TO SNL»
Posted on April 12, 2009 in MP3, Video
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Tags: David Pajo |
Fred Armisen |
Saturday Night Live |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
Zac Efron
Over on Stereogum: a randomish assortment of comedy people -- Fred Armisen, Charlyne Yi, and Martin Starr star in Man Man's new video for "Rabbit Habits."... CONTINUE READING COMEDY STARS INFILTRATE INDIE ROCK VIDEO»
Posted on April 8, 2009 in Music Related Content
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Tags: Charlyne Yi |
Fred Armisen |
Martin Starr
It's been about a year since Man Man released the first video from Rabbit Habits. In the relatively quiet time since, Honus Honus apparently has been poring over storyboards and striking up friendships with ThunderAnts and members of the Apatow... CONTINUE READING NEW MAN MAN VIDEO (FEAT. FRED ARMISEN, CHARLYNE YI & MARTIN STARR) - "RABBIT HABITS"»
Posted on April 8, 2009 in Video
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Tags: Charlyne Yi |
Fred Armisen |
Man Man |
Martin Starr |
ThunderAnt
Is it just me, or did Saturday's SNL seem aimed at our parent's generation? Aside from the digital short, pretty much 100% of the show was (gulp), kind of, um, "Dad-humor." Nobody loves Steve Martin more than me (I'll even... CONTINUE READING SNL JUST THE FUNNY PARTS: STEVE MARTIN PLAYED A BANJO FOR A VERY LONG TIME»
Posted on February 2, 2009 in Late Night, Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Andy Samberg |
Bill Hader |
Fred Armisen |
Kristen Wiig |
Saturday Night Live |
Steve Martin |
Will Forte
Just a few days before The Cutest Couple In The World surprised everyone last week by getting engaged, Fred Armisen appeared on Conan and told a story about how he invited the girl he "recently started dating" to watch SNL... CONTINUE READING FRED ARMISEN MADE OUT WITH PAUL RUDD ON HIS FIRST DATE WITH ELISABETH MOSS»
Posted on January 28, 2009 in Celebrity Gossip!, Interviews
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Tags: Conan O'Brien |
Elisabeth Moss |
Fred Armisen |
Mad Men |
Paul Rudd |
Saturday Night Live
Aww, Elisabeth Moss and Fred Armisen are reportedly engaged. As long as Elisabeth doesn't make Fred move to Los Angeles when Mad Men starts filming again, this news is adorable.... CONTINUE READING PEGGY OLSON IS ENGAGED TO BARACK OBAMA»
Posted on January 23, 2009 in Celebrity Gossip!
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Tags: Elisabeth Moss |
Fred Armisen |
Mad Men |
Peggy Olson |
Saturday Night Live
Veteran comedy guy Hugh Laurie hosted SNL Saturday with musical guest Kanye West, and what is up with those long sketches? For example: at the 43 minute mark, there had been just five sketches. None of them were terrible, but... CONTINUE READING SNL JUST THE FUNNY PARTS: GOODBYE AMY»
Posted on December 15, 2008 in Late Night, Live TV, Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Amy Poehler |
Fred Armisen |
Kanye West |
Saturday Night Live |
Seth Meyers
These things are the best! In this viral clip, a producer doesn't realize his temper tantrum ("Cut to--God damnit get that dumb bitch! Get her off the--!") can be heard by the audience and, most hilariously, the anchor, who helplessly... CONTINUE READING THIS MSNBC PRODUCER IS PROBABLY STILL LOOKING FOR A JOB»
Posted on December 5, 2008 in Awkward Live TV, The News
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Tags: Fred Armisen
We've kept you abreast of ThunderAnt's various adventures. In the newest, possibly funniest episode they head back to Women And Women First to stock the music section, deconstruct laptop live performances, and discover the sound of chard: Browse. "Do you... CONTINUE READING FRED ARMISEN & CARRIE BROWNSTEIN RETURN TO THE FEMINIST BOOKSTORE»
Posted on December 4, 2008 in Video
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Tags: Carrie Brownstein |
Fred Armisen |
Sleater-Kinney |
ThunderAnt
Guess who's back. Back again. Yup. Eminem is BACK! Relapse is slated for an early 2009 release. But also Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are back with a new ThunderAnt video returning them to the cashier counter at the feminist... CONTINUE READING THUNDERANT RETURNS TO THE FEMINIST BOOKSTORE»
Posted on December 4, 2008 in Viral Video
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Tags: Carrie Brownstein |
Fred Armisen |
ThunderAnt
Weird. Maybe SNL should just be shorter, not have musical guests, always be hosted by Will Ferrell and partially written by Adam McKay, and take place during the last burst of the most important election of a generation, but last... CONTINUE READING LAST NIGHT'S THURSDAY SNL 65% FUNNIER THAN A REGULAR SNL»
Posted on October 24, 2008 in Politics, Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Adam McKay |
Andy Samberg |
David Byrne |
Fred Armisen |
Saturday Night Live |
Tina Fey |
Will Ferrell
The Killers performed "Human" and "Spaceman" on SNL this past weekend. It turns out they also performed some songs off-the-air, which is documented in this clip, wherein Fred Armisen explains the situation and we spot a very gracious Brandon Flowers... CONTINUE READING THE KILLERS' DAY & AGE ALBUM ART»
Posted on October 9, 2008 in Album Art
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Tags: Amy Poehler |
Andy Samberg |
Coachella |
Fred Armisen |
Jenny Lewis |
Saturday Night Live |
The Killers
This week's SNL had an okay sketch about the bailout announcement that they put on their website and sent out to the press, but it disappeared sometime yesterday. Breitbart.com accuses NBC of removing the sketch because it "criticizes Democrats." But... CONTINUE READING DID SNL CENSOR A SKETCH FOR MAKING FUN OF...EVERYBODY?»
Posted on October 7, 2008 in Backlashes, Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Amy Poehler |
Anne Hathaway |
Censorship |
Coachella |
Fred Armisen |
Kristen Wiig |
Saturday Night Live
In yesterday's roundup of just the funny parts of SNL's blockbuster (ratings-wise) 2008 premiere Saturday night, I neglected to mention one very important funny part: Fred Armisen as Nicholas Fehn the political comedian on Weekend Update: Here Armisen breaks a... CONTINUE READING THERE WAS ONE OTHER FUNNY THING ON SNL: FRED ARMISEN AS NICHOLAS FEHN»
Posted on September 16, 2008 in Late Night, Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Fred Armisen |
Saturday Night Live
Last time ThunderAnt were in the kitchen, today Fred invites Carrie to his probing performance art piece which is funny for all the wrong reasons. Watch.... CONTINUE READING FRED ARMISEN SHOWS CARRIE BROWNSTEIN HIS "ONE MAN SHOW"»
Posted on September 3, 2008
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Tags: Carrie Brownstein |
Fred Armisen |
Sleater-Kinney |
SXSW |
Telepathe |
The Shins |
ThunderAnt
The new ThunderAnt video (ThunderAnt being the comedy duo of Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen and Sleater Kinney's Carrie Brownstein, pay attention) features Fred's "One Man Show" at the local theater in which he STUNS audiences by embodying a number... CONTINUE READING NEW THUNDERANT: "ONE MAN SHOW"»
Posted on September 3, 2008 in Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Carrie Brownstein |
Fred Armisen |
ThunderAnt
This weekend's MacGruber-friendly Saturday Night Live episode featured Shia The Motherfucking Beef and musical guest My Morning Jacket. Jim James probably didn't want to scare America and so he kept "Highly Suspicious" on the sidelines. Instead MMJ catered to the... SNL'">CONTINUE READING MY MORNING JACKET BRING THEIR "AMAZED," "EVIL URGES" TO SNL»
Posted on May 12, 2008 in Video
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Tags: Amy Poehler |
Andy Samberg |
Fred Armisen |
Jean K. Jean |
Keenan Thompson |
Kristen Wiig |
My Morning Jacket |
Saturday Night Live |
Shia LeBeouf
Have you heard about Christmas on Mars? It's a movie starring Adam Goldberg and the guy from Blue's Clues that Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips have been working on/talking about forever. It's a piecemeal project about the first Christmas... CONTINUE READING YOU BETTER LOSE YOURSELF IN THE SLEEPWALKING MUSIC»
Posted on April 29, 2008 in Music Related Content
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Tags: Adam Goldberg |
Christmas On Mars |
Elijah Wood |
Fred Armisen |
Isaac Brock |
The Flaming Lips
At this point, Thunderant doesn't need an introduction, but taking short attention spans into consideration, it's the comedy duo of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. Last time we saw them, they tried (and succeeded in) penning "The Perfect Song." This... CONTINUE READING NEW THUNDERANT: FRED ARMISEN AND CARRIE BROWNSTEIN ENTER THE KITCHEN»
Posted on April 21, 2008 in Video
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Tags: Carrie Brownstein |
Fred Armisen |
Sleater-Kinney |
ThunderAnt
The newest videoblog collaboration between Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein as ThunderAnt is the funniest yet. Fred and Carrie are Steven and Maggie, proprietors of a new Portland restaurant called Katchenza, which has been the subject of "hurtful" comments on... CONTINUE READING NEW THUNDERANT: FRED ARMISEN AND CARRIE BROWNSTEIN MAKE THE KATCHENZA PROMISE»
Posted on April 21, 2008 in WebJunk
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Tags: Carrie Brownstein |
Fred Armisen |
ThunderAnt
Through his ThunderAnt collaborations with Carrie Brownstein or his various SNL skits -- recently as Obama -- Fred Armisen's no stranger to Stereogum readers. One extended skit you may not have seen is the short film he made at SXSW... CONTINUE READING FRED ARMISEN'S GUIDE TO MUSIC AND SXSW 1998»
Posted on March 12, 2008 in Video
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Tags: Fred Armisen |
Janeane Garofalo |
Pavement |
Southern Culture On The Skids |
Steve Albini |
The Aluminum Group |
The High Llamas |
The Mekons
Back from the writers' strike with a backlog of Daniel Plainview and Hillary Clinton jokes, Saturday Night Live returned this weekend brandishing Tina Fey, a Steve Martin cameo, and huge prosthetic Obama ears. Obviously musical guest Carrie Underwood wasn't going... CONTINUE READING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE RETURNS WITH ROCK OF LOVE PARODY, ARMISEN AS OBAMA»
Posted on February 25, 2008 in Video
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Tags: Amy Poehler |
Barack Obama |
Bret Michaels |
Fred Armisen |
Jason Sudeikis |
Saturday Night Live
For someone who says so much through sad songs, Aimee Mann's live shows are surprisingly comedic affairs. Patton Oswalt has pinch-bantered for Aimee in concert for over ten years now. The singer/songwriter's part of Jon Brion's Largo family, and it's... CONTINUE READING AIMEE MANN MOCKUMENTARY STARRING JOHN KRASINSKI, BEN STILLER, WILL FERRELL»
Posted on February 8, 2008 in Video
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Tags: Aimee Mann |
Ben Stiller |
Bob Odenkirk |
Emily Procter |
Fred Armisen |
Grant-Lee Phillips |
Jackson Browne |
John Krasinski |
Nellie McKay |
Patton Oswalt |
Paul F. Tompkins |
Weird Al Yankovic |
Will Ferrell
We've visited with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in the past -- on a nice date and behind the scenes at a feminist bookstore. With this new Thunderant video, the comedic twosome's topped themselves, showing us the arduous, soulful recipe... CONTINUE READING NEW THUNDERANT VIDEO - "THE PERFECT SONG"»
Posted on December 14, 2007 in Video
(7 comments)
Tags: Carrie Brownstein |
Fred Armisen |
Sleater-Kinney |
ThunderAnt
This weekend, amid the writer's strike, the SNL cast performed in Chelsea in the Upright Citizens Brigade theater to an audience of less than 200 peeps, though their numbers included Julian Casablancas, Jon Glaser, Will Arnett, and John Krasinski. Guests... CONTINUE READING SNL LIVE @ UCB WITH MICHAEL CERA, YO LA TENGO»
Posted on November 19, 2007
(9 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg |
Fred Armisen |
Michael Cera |
Norah Jones |
Paul F. Tompkins |
Saturday Night Live |
Yo La Tengo
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