Of all the current Saturday Night Live cast members, Fred Armisen seems like the least likely to spin-off one of his Studio 8H characters for the box office. Not necessarily because he hasn’t been given the opportunity — after Will Forte’s disastrous MacGruber though, who could blame movie studios for not trying? — but because Armisen, who Lorne Michaels described as “an artist, not a careerist,” seems genuinely content to be part of Saturday Night Live ‘s ensemble cast. So it is a little surprising to see that after nine seasons with the show, the self-described “short-sighted” actor has gone ahead and created a new sketch comedy series for the IFC called Portlandia , which co-stars Sleater-Kinney founder Carrie Brownstein.
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Fred Armisen on Portlandia and the Dream of the 90s
