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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: RustyOrgan on February 26, 2011, 01:32:32 am

Title: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: RustyOrgan on February 26, 2011, 01:32:32 am
Anyone else want their $25 back??
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: serpent boy on February 26, 2011, 01:59:17 am
Why did it suck so much? I was curious to know how this was since I like his SNL work.
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 26, 2011, 09:46:24 am
Well considering how lame Portlandia is.... i think i chuckled a one bit so far..
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: RustyOrgan on February 26, 2011, 03:06:22 pm
Well considering how lame Portlandia is.... i think i chuckled a one bit so far..

Portlandia is sick!  You just have really shitty taste Kosmo Vinyl
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: blipvurt on February 26, 2011, 04:57:05 pm
I almost went to this...curious what made it suck?
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: dyecraig on February 26, 2011, 05:29:18 pm
Well considering how lame Portlandia is.... i think i chuckled a one bit so far..

well, that's one bit more chuckle than me
not funny at all, pity
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: reggie on February 28, 2011, 10:05:31 am
I had a great time. The crowd was kind of hostile.

He started the set playing some songs - a few have appeared on SNL (Brendan Canty and Mary Timony were in his band)

Then he did some impressions, some q and a, showed clips of Portlandia, a drum set, and it was all kind of unstructured.

I don't know if people were expecting stand-up or what, but there were some people in the crowd who clearly have never been to the Black Cat and acted like real douches.

It's the kind of thing that would have gone over well at a venue like the Largo in LA, but I'm not sure it was suited for the DC crowd.

 



Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: James Ford on February 28, 2011, 10:11:44 am
You mean it was a show suited for douches?



It's the kind of thing that would have gone over well at a venue like the Largo in LA,
 




Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: bellenseb on February 28, 2011, 10:19:57 am
Yeah, the whole thing had a loose, "not sure what to do but I want to entertain you!" vibe. He clearly doesn't tour or have an "act", but was very game to do whatever impressions the audience wanted and have fun with it. I really enjoyed it. There are plenty of professional "stand-up" performances.
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: godsshoeshine on February 28, 2011, 11:39:38 am
i saw him open for les savy fav around 5 years ago and he was awful
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: killsaly on February 28, 2011, 01:32:30 pm
Sounds like it would have been a great Baltimore show.
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: sweetcell on February 28, 2011, 03:27:46 pm
Sounds like it would have been a great Baltimore show.

this gets my vote for POTD.
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: notme on February 28, 2011, 09:54:50 pm
looks like he had a great back up band.  i thought he played drums? what did canty do?
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: Markus on March 04, 2011, 09:28:22 am
looks like he had a great back up band.  i thought he played drums? what did canty do?

Canty played drums for a couple songs. Fred played a drum solo and did drummer impersonations.

All in all, I thought it was an great show and everyone around me seemed to love it too.

It should be noted that Fred recently broke up with his Scientologist girlfriend and Scientologists are imfamous for their smear campaigns against those they see as "enemies".

I've already seen blogs where people have started leaving comments about how Fred is a womaniser who mistreats his girlfriends and that this Black Cat show was awful.
I wouldn't be surprized if those blogs were all written by scientologists.
There is a good reason the members of Anon hide their identities when they protest scientology. it is one scary outfit
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: sweetcell on March 04, 2011, 09:36:13 am
RustyOrgan is a scientologist?

would explain a few things...
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: James Ford on March 04, 2011, 10:00:30 am

It was his wife (Elisabeth Moss of Mad Men), not his girlfriend.
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: Markus on March 04, 2011, 02:03:47 pm

It was his wife (Elisabeth Moss of Mad Men), not his girlfriend.

I sit corrected!

Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: Bags on March 11, 2011, 02:59:16 pm
Moss is a Scientologist?  Oh my... 
Title: Re: Fred Armisen @ Black Cat = Shit Show
Post by: blipvurt on March 11, 2011, 03:09:54 pm
WLDC got some of those werid "womanizer" comments on our review of this show. Interesting to learn about the Scientology angle. I'll pass that along.

For the record, the writer of the WLDC post is not a Scientologist or an ex of Fred Armisen, she just thought it was shitty show.