EP.220 - FRED ARMISEN

THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

Adam Buxton

Comedy

4.8 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Adam talks with American actor, comedian, voice artist, screenwriter, producer and musician Fred Armisen about hotel hacks, what Fred and Matt Berry learned when they hung out with David Bowie's producer Tony Visconti, the Stop Making Sense nerd fact David Byrne told Fred, how Adam could help Talking Heads get on better, why you can't beat Paul McCartney, why Fred wasn't nervous for his Saturday Night Live Audition, the Portlandia sketches that summed up the show best and Fred takes us on an accent tour of New York.

This conversation was recorded face-to-face in London on 25th November 2023.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and conversation editing.

Podcast artwork by Helen Green

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by the Woodland Trust's Plant More Trees Climate Change campaign.
0:04.4	Yes, it's me, the wise old tree, I stood here for a century.
0:08.0	I've had people carve their names in me and do a pee on my knee and the birds cover my arms and turds but that's okay I don't really mind I love the birds and people too that's why I process CO2 for you and I fight the effects of the climate crisis.
0:22.5	Plants are wise, but I'm more wisest.
0:24.5	But can I ask you a favour, please?
0:26.0	Help woodland trust to plant more trees.
0:28.0	More trees, more trees, more trees,
0:30.0	more beautiful healing trees.
0:32.0	Come on, please, this ain't that controversial.
0:35.0	It's a plant in tree commercial.
0:37.0	Trees are one of our best defences against climate change.
0:40.0	The Woodland Trust has made it their mission to plant 50 million more trees by 2030, for nature and for people.
0:48.0	Search Woodland Trust plant more trees to find out why. Thank you Mr. Shitingale.
0:57.0	I added one more podcast to the Giant Podcast
1:02.0	bin.
1:03.0	Now you have plugged that podcast out and started listening.
1:07.0	I took my microphone and found some human folk.
1:11.0	Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke. My name is Adam Buckston. I'm a
1:20.0	man. I want you to enjoy this that's the plan.
1:44.0	The beautiful bucolic sound of the wood pigeon.
1:50.0	That is what woke me up this morning at 7.30 a.m. It's a Saturday, so I wouldn't have minded sleeping a little while longer, and it would have been fine if the wood pigeon wasn't quite so close to the bedroom window, but I suppose this worse sounds to be woken by.
2:08.9	And even though it is gray and cloudy now that I'm out here on my walk with Rose Dog who's doing fine, aren't you dog legs?
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