Fred Armisen News

Perry will treat the audience to a one-time only special performance of 'Firework' at NIGHT OF TOO MANY STARS: America Comes Together for Autism Programs.' The special will tape in New York City at the Beacon Theatre on Saturday, October 13 and will premiere on COMEDY CENTRAL on Saturday, October 21 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.

SNL enters its 38th season on September 15 tonight with host Seth MacFarlane. The Emmy Award-winning comedian and 'Family Guy' creator recently directed and lent his voice to the blockbuster feature film, "Ted," starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis.

Two stand-up series will air this October on CC. Season two ofGABRIEL IGLESIAS PRESENTS STAND-UP REVOLUTION debuts on Thursday, October 4 at 10:00 p.m. and the series premiere of 'Mash Up,' hosted by T.J. Miller, will air on Tuesday, October 9 at 12:30 a.m.

COMEDY CENTRAL and Jon Stewart's Busboy Productions announced today the first group of comic all-stars booked for its biennial autism benefit, NIGHT OF TOO MANY STARS: AMERICA COMES TOGETHER FOR AUTISM PROGRAMS.

Academy Award(R)-nominated and Golden Globe(R)-winning actress Chloë Sevigny (Big Love, American Horror Story) is packing her bags and heading to PORTLANDIA for season three of IFC's original comedy series.

MSG Entertainment and S2BN are proud to welcome Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! Get the Sillies Out to The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Friday, November 30 through Sunday, December 2, 2012.

This summer PORTLANDIA fans can indulge in a brand new one-hour special premiering tonight, July 20 at 11PM ET/PT immediately following all new episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang! and Bunk.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has honored IFC's original comedy series PORTLANDIA with two Emmy nominations. Created and written by Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein and Jonathan Krisel, Portlandia welcomes viewers to the creators' romanticized and dreamy rendering of Portland, OR.

A new video has been released of THE FRONT DESK With Fred Armisen from the Above Average Youtube channel. The channel features shorts from the people behind Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock and other NBC shows. In this webisode, Christopher tries to communicate with Bradley (Fred Armisen), a guest who has taken a vow of silence. Check it out below!

This summer PORTLANDIA fans can indulge in a brand new one-hour special premiering Friday, July 20 at 11PM ET/PT immediately following all new episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang! and Bunk.

EPIX today announced a new monthly comedy showcase 'EPIX Comedy Unbound' kicking off with the EPIX Original Comedy Event Jim Norton: Please Be Offended on June 30.

New Haarlem Arts Theatre continues its series, 'Unheard Voices for the American Theater.' In this series, our new professional theater company at CCNY facilitates new and established writers in experimenting, imagining and creating theater for the new century that speaks to our shared history and the changing demographics of America.

'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' presented the next installment of the 'Downtown Abbey' parody, DOWNTON SIXBEY. Whoopi Goldberg is featured in this latest epiode which pokes fun at the popular BBC series.

USA Today reports that the future status of SNL stars Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis remains uncertain as of now.

Part 12 ANGRY MEN homage, part surrealistic NBC retrospective fever dream and 100% 30 ROCK absurd brilliance at its best, night's live episode of the gold standard NBC comedy series 30 ROCK was precisely that - pure gold. Not only did Tina Fey and the impossibly creative team of writers give the motley assortment of players that comprise the cast a chance to seriously show off their live sketch show skills and theatrical training, but provided Broadway and Hollywood crossover star Alec Baldwin with some of his strongest material to date - with the charismatic erstwhile comedian absolutely killing in his moments portraying a host of wacky and weird characters besides the usual stone-faced Jack Donaghy, a role which has brought him a copious amount of well-deserved statuettes over the six seasons so far. Speaking of hosts, the Dean Martin parody, THE JOEY MONTERO SHOW, stands out as being perhaps the most memorable and guffaw-inducing of all the night's trove of treasures, which is certainly saying something significant - Baldwin owned. Besides the ingenuous conceit of paying tribute to the landmark original live television drama 12 ANGRY MEN acting as a fresh and amusing framing device for the episode, the opportunity afforded by Kenneth (Jack MacBrayer)'s hallucinatory flashbacks of fictional former lesser glories of NBC's long and storied history gave rise to the fabulous fodder allowing for some of the funniest sequences on the series in recent memory - moments that will linger in the mind and funny bone long after this episode or season. Yes, once again, 30 ROCK proved why it is the finest comedy on TV and why Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin have a special sort of chemistry that can only be compared to the finest pairs in the rich history of the form - Mary & Mr. Grant included.

Today we are shining a special spotlight on some of the most spot-on short video parodies in recent memory - with a special focus on the creme de la creme of such shorts; unveiled last night on THE JIMMY FALLON SHOW, the absolutely hilarious first installment of DOWNTON SIXBEY, starring Jimmy Fallon and Brooke Shields as well as Fallon's announcer, Steve Higgins (and a cameo from SNL and PORTLANDIA's Fred Armisen). An incredibly detailed and well-honed winking homage to the international smash hit Julian Fellowes early-19th century-set DOWNTON ABBEY that has cleaned up at the recent Emmy Awards and Golden Globes - a drama largely concerning itself with the goings on upstairs and downstairs at an impossible palatial country estate - DOWNTON SIXBEY centers on the various intrigues of the cast of characters at Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City and contains countless winks and nudges to and taken at the expense of the hit Brit soap sensation of the century. From the opening sequence - a direct shot-for-shot recreation of the already iconic DOWNTON prologue - through to Fallon's all-to-apt pronunciation of 'here', Broadway and Hollywood star Brooke Shields looking ravishing as she says 'howdy' as politely as the other Lady Grantham herself and beyond - without even mentioning Fred Armisen's cameo as the homely 'other daughter' and the ?uestlove (Fallon's bandleader and the head of The Roots) cameo cliffhanger at the conclusion - this joking and sensitively rendered tribute hits the notes and chords all too few of the countless DOWNTON ABBEY parodies committed to celluloid so far fail to consistently reach and truly sings, zings and stings. When it comes to this sort of thing, it's all in the details, after all, isn't it? The same could be said of DOWNTON ABBEY itself, actually.

According to US Weekly, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE cast members Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis will be exiting the NBC sketch comedy show at the conclusion of the current season.

At the network's first-ever Upfront event, IFC unveiled its 2012/2013 original programming line-up which includes the return for a third season of its breakout hit series, PORTLANDIA and a second season of WHISKER WARS.

EPIX (www.epixhd.com), the multi-screen, multi-platform premium entertainment service, announced today that it will be the exclusive U.S. broadcaster of Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball, to be held at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, Sunday March 4, 2012 at 7pm ET/4pm PT.