Topic: Fred Armisen

The duo behind IFC sketch show Portlandia—Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein—told TONY their tour would be like everyone hanging around in a living...
IFC Portlandia: The Tour Music Hall of Williamsburg Friday, September 20 Better than: Watching television (but who has one anyway?). In the middle...

Portlandia

When Fred Armisen, best-known from his myriad of oddball characters on Saturday Night Live, met Carrie Brownstein, formerly of bedrock punk band...

Is Platonic the New Romantic?

Last weekend, I felt like getting out of New York and enjoying the last few days of vacation before the January rush. My friend Kevin was also...
The New Year's resolution might be society's most useless invention since the appearance of those tiny chairs for your cell phone to sit on...

Too Hipster for TV?

For the past two years, I've been lucky enough to be a small part of a show called Portlandia. The series -- created by the prolifically talented...
Much has been written about the Internet's ability to scatter our thoughts, but it's also true that almost everything about modern technology...

The real powers in the U.S. government

I guess I'm going to have to start DVRing Saturday Night Live so I can fast forward to the few and far between funny skits, like the message below...

Film review: The Smurfs (1.5 stars)

In 1970, Robert Altman shocked audiences by dropping the f-bomb into his war satire M*A*S*H. It wasn't the first time the word had been used in a...
I could go on - in fact, I have - about how weak Fred Armisen's impression of U.S. President Barack Obama is on Saturday Night live, even though...