6.8
Nimrods
2026
Fred Armisen
Acting
Born December 4, 1966Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
Biography
Fereydun Robert Armisen (born December 4, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, musician, and television writer. With his comedy partner Carrie Brownstein, he co-created and co-starred in the IFC sketch comedy series Portlandia. He also co-created and starred in the mockumentary IFC series Documentary Now! and the Showtime comedy series Moonbase 8. Armisen was the bandleader and frequent drummer for the Late Night with Seth Meyers house band, the 8G Band from 2014 to 2024. He was a cast member on the late-night sketch comedy and variety series Saturday Night Live from 2002 to 2013. He voiced Speedy Gonzales on The Looney Tunes Show. He also works as a voice actor in films, such as The Smurfs (2011), The Smurfs 2 (2013), The House of Tomorrow, The Lego Ninjago Movie (both 2017), The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Contestant (both 2023), Thelma the Unicorn (2024) and Fixed (2025). Armisen has acted in comedy films, including EuroTrip, Melvin Goes to Dinner, The Ex, and The Dictator. He is also notable for his guest-star appearances in television shows such as 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, New Girl, Broad City, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Difficult People, The Last Man on Earth, Toast of Tinseltown, Our Flag Means Death, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family, and Barry. Armisen received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album for Standup for Drummers in 2019. He has also won two Peabody Awards, one in 2008 as part of the Saturday Night Live political satire cast and one in 2011 for Portlandia. From 2019 to 2022, he co-starred and served as writer and executive producer on the Spanish-language series Los Espookys, which he co-created. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fred Armisen, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
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7.1
Lorne
2026
5.5
Dear Shop Girl
2025
0.0
Downey Wrote That
2025
6.2
Fixed
2025
5.5
Netflix Tudum 2025
2025
1.0
DIY: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Punk
2025
6.7
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
0.0
G*ve a F*ck LA: A Benefit for LA Fire Relief
2025
7.7
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
6.9
Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary
2024
0.0
Age of Audio
2024
7.3
Will & Harper
2024
0.0
Never Mind
2024
6.9
Thelma the Unicorn
2024
5.3
Unfrosted
2024
0.0
Come and Save Me
2024
6.0
Resynator
2024
0.0
Melomaniac
2023
6.9
The Contestant
2023
7.6
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023
0.0
Resurgence
2023
6.0
Clerks III
2022
4.9
Spin Me Round
2022
4.6
The Bubble
2022
8.0
The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
2022
Bob Mould & Fred Armisen: Come What May - Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
0.0
Bob Mould & Fred Armisen: Come What May - Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
2021
4.8
How It Ends
2021
7.4
The Sparks Brothers
2021
7.8
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
2021
4.0
Too Late
2021
5.4
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
6.7
All Together Now
2020
6.4
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
2020
6.4
Magnum Dopus
2020
0.0
The Imminent Expiration of Seth Dodson
2020
0.0
Yo La Tengo: Hanukkah 2019 - Night One
2019
7.1
The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show
2019
5.7
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
2019
3.5
Adams
2019
6.8
The House of Tomorrow
2019
7.7
Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
2019
8.0
My View: Clem Burke
2019
0.0
You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys
2018
5.5
Game Over, Man!
2018
6.4
Fred Armisen: Standup for Drummers
2018
4.7
A Christmas Story Live!
2017
6.4
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
2017
6.7
Battle of the Sexes
2017
6.5
The Lego Ninjago Movie
2017
5.9
The Little Hours
2017
6.3
Band Aid
2017
6.0
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
2017
5.0
Take the 10
2017
5.8
Man in the Camo Jacket
2017
5.7
Ordinary World
2016
Resurgence: It's Early Albuquerque
5.0
Resurgence: It's Early Albuquerque
2016
4.9
Zoolander 2
2016
5.2
Addicted to Fresno
2015
6.5
7 Days in Hell
2015
5.6
Staten Island Summer
2015
4.2
George and the Vacuum
2015
6.9
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015
7.7
The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead
2015
5.7
Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run
2015
5.2
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
2014
5.0
The Maya Rudolph Show
2014
7.4
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
2014
6.6
Revenge of the Mekons
2013
0.0
Fame or Shame Season 14
2013
6.8
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
2013
5.7
The Smurfs 2
2013
10.0
AMEX Unstaged Presents: Vampire Weekend
2013
10.0
Brunch Village
2012
6.3
The Dictator
2012
7.6
The Secret Policeman's Ball
2012
6.7
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
2011
Inside Portlandia
0.0
Inside Portlandia
2011
5.8
The Smurfs
2011
0.0
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2011
5.3
The Women of SNL
2010
6.8
Easy A
2010
5.2
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010
7.8
Saturday Night
2010
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
0.0
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
2010
6.1
Presidential Reunion
2010
5.6
Cop Out
2010
0.0
Gavin McInnes is a Fucking Asshole
2010
5.0
Post Grad
2009
7.7
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
2009
0.0
Papa Nogood
2009
6.5
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
5.1
Christmas on Mars
2008
6.1
The Rocker
2008
5.3
The Promotion
2008
6.0
Baby Mama
2008
7.5
Largo
2008
The Shooting AKA Dear Sister
0.0
The Shooting AKA Dear Sister
2007
0.0
Fred Armisen Presents: Complicated Drumming Technique Jens Hannemann
2007
6.5
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
2007
5.8
Goodbye Baby
2007
0.0
Laser Cats 2
2007
5.3
The Ex
2006
6.8
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
2006
5.6
Deck the Halls
2006
7.1
Griffin & Phoenix
2006
0.0
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse
2006
4.7
Kiss Me Again
2006
0.0
Laser Cats!
2006
8.0
Book Club
2006
6.8
Saturday Night Live: The Best of David Spade
2005
5.3
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
2005
8.0
Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration
2005
6.0
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
2004
0.0
The Frank International Film Festival
2004
6.7
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004
6.6
EuroTrip
2004
5.4
Melvin Goes to Dinner
2003
6.1
Like Mike
2002
7.5
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco
2002
Fred Armisen's Guide to Music and SXSW
7.0
Fred Armisen's Guide to Music and SXSW
TV Shows
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0.0
We're Back! With Brian Williams
0.0
5 Things with Jay Mewes
6.0
Lubach
5.5
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
6.7
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
6.7
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
6.1
Deli Boys
8.0
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
5.8
Universal Basic Guys
5.9
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
8.1
Fallout
7.3
Carol & the End of the World
6.0
Royal Crackers
6.8
Unstable
6.1
Digman!
6.9
Agent Elvis
5.7
History of the World: Part II
8.3
Wednesday
7.4
This Fool
7.5
Our Flag Means Death
6.9
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
7.2
Toast of Tinseltown
5.7
Saturday Morning All Star Hits!
6.5
Baking It
5.8
That's My Jam
6.0
Do, Re & Mi
7.4
Centaurworld
7.4
Centaurworld
7.4
Centaurworld
7.4
Centaurworld
7.4
Centaurworld
7.4
Centaurworld
7.4
Centaurworld
6.8
Schmigadoon!
7.0
Cinema Toast
5.6
Moonbase 8
6.3
Central Park
0.0
The Second City Presents: The Last Show Left on Earth
5.8
Lights Out with David Spade
6.3
Los Espookys
6.3
Los Espookys
7.0
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
8.0
What We Do in the Shadows
6.8
Miracle Workers
6.2
Star Wars Resistance
0.0
Fortune Rookie
6.3
Forever
7.9
Barry
8.4
Final Space
7.6
Big Mouth
6.1
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
5.6
The Gong Show
7.5
Party Legends
6.5
Match Game
5.9
Long Live the Royals
7.5
Superstore
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
7.2
Documentary Now!
6.3
Difficult People
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.1
The Late Late Show with James Corden
7.1
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
7.1
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
6.9
The Last Man on Earth
7.0
Man Seeking Woman
7.0
Man Seeking Woman
7.8
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
6.7
Deadbeat
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.0
Off Camera with Sam Jones
7.1
Broad City
5.4
Super Fun Night
8.2
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
6.5
Hollywood Game Night
7.4
Out There
7.1
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
6.4
Comedy Bang! Bang!
6.5
Finding Your Roots
6.6
Unsupervised
6.6
House of Lies
7.4
New Girl
6.0
Up All Night
8.1
The Looney Tunes Show
6.9
Portlandia
7.8
Bob's Burgers
7.2
Conan
8.2
Ugly Americans
7.9
Modern Family
7.9
Archer
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
8.0
Parks and Recreation
5.9
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
5.9
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
6.7
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
8.0
Tim and Eric Nite Live!
7.2
Yo Gabba Gabba!
7.3
Human Giant
7.2
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
7.2
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
7.2
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
6.3
The Sarah Silverman Program
7.5
30 Rock
7.5
30 Rock
7.2
Freak Show
6.9
Squidbillies
7.6
Robot Chicken
7.0
American Dad!
6.8
Tom Goes to the Mayor
The Tony Danza Show
6.4
The Tony Danza Show
Next Caller
0.0
Next Caller
7.0
Next!
7.5
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
7.5
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
8.1
Curb Your Enthusiasm
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
8.0
The Simpsons
6.9
Saturday Night Live
6.9
Saturday Night Live
6.9
Saturday Night Live
6.9
Saturday Night Live
Untitled 'Wednesday' spin-off about Uncle Fester
0.0