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 JIM DOWN - LIFE IN THE BALANCE (PAPERBACK) - 2023 (WATERSTONES) RELATED LINKS FRED ARMISEN BRITISH MUSIC PLAYLIST - 2023 (LINE OF BEST FIT WEBSITE) DAVID BOWIE, BRIAN ENO AND TONY VISCONTI RECORD WARSZAWA (animated by Brothers McLeod) - 2013 (YOUTUBE) BREAKING DOWN HEROES - TONY VISCONTI & ERIN TONKON (FROM MUSIC MOGULS: MASTERS OF POP, BCC) - 2016 (YOUTUBE) MATT BERRY INTERVIEWS BRIAN ENO - 2018 (YOUTUBE) PORTLANDIA - PUT A BIRD ON IT - 2011 (YOUTUBE) PORTLANDIA - IN THE RESTAURANT - 2011 (YOUTUBE) PORTLANDIA - WHICH BIN DOES IT GO IN - 2012 (YOUTUBE) HISTORY OF PUNK SNL - 2013 (YOUTUBE) SNL WEEKEND UPDATE - GARTH AND KAT SING HALLOWEEN SONGS - 2010 (YOUTUBE) NARDWUAR VS FRED ARMISEN - 2013 (YOUTUBE) FRED ARMISEN, BILL HADER, SETH MYERS RECALL PRINCE AFTERSHOW PARTY ON HOWARD STERN SHOW - 2016 (YOUTUBE) BEST OF BILL HADER AND FRED ARMISEN (YOUTUBE) SATURDAY NIGHT - A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SNL BY JAMES FRANCO - 2014 (YOUTUBE) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hey Adam, Here with a shout out for a new podcast series that I'm acting in.
It's called up in Smoke.
It's a dark supernatural drama told in the style of a factual true crime investigative podcast, written and directed by Guy Larson and Cambria Bailey Jones, up in Smoke.
The first two episodes are available now from your favorite podcast bin.
I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin.
Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening.
I took my microphone and found some human folk.
Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke.
My name is Adam Buxton.
I'm a man.
I want you to enjoy this.
That's the plan.
The beautiful bucolic sound of the wood pigeon.
That is what woke me up this morning at 7:30am 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 there's worse sounds to be woken by.
And even though it is grey and cloudy now that I'm out here on my walk with Rose Dog who's doing fine, aren't you?
Dog Legs patronized me.
It's not quite as windy or as rainy as it has been recently.
So all in all, going to say winning Charlie Sheen called back there.