Fred Armisen
b"Fred Armisen is known as one of the funniest and most memorable\\xa0Saturday Night Live\\xa0cast members, but surprisingly, a career in comedy wasn\\u2019t something he originally envisioned. As a kid, he was obsessed with becoming a musician. Punk\\u2014his first love\\u2014was perfectly suited to his self-described \\u201cweirdo\\u201d sensibility. He and his band Trenchmouth had some success, but it paled in comparison to the record deals and acclaim his peers were getting. \\u201cThe hardest part about watching all the bands around us get famous was that I wasn't able to enjoy music anymore because I was so jealous.\\u201dFred wasn\\u2019t lighting the world on fire with his drumming, but he knew he had a gift for making people laugh with impressions\\u2014a valuable skill for entertaining band mates on long concert tours. Fred started wondering if he was supposed to be on a different path. \\u201cI worried for a moment that I was too late for this career, but the rewards were so huge that I made up for lost time. Within a few years, I was on\\xa0Saturday Night Live. I went through the side door entrance, and even I wasn\\u2019t a traditional comedian, I had impressions and characters.\\u201dThat side door proved to be the right one. Fred spent 11 years on\\xa0SNL, developed and starred in\\xa0Portlandia\\xa0with Carrie Brownstein, did\\xa0Documentary Now!\\xa0with Bill Hader\\xa0and\\xa0Forever\\xa0with Maya Rudolph, both fellow\\xa0SNL\\xa0alumni, and he\\u2019s at it again with\\xa0Los Espookys, an upcoming Spanish-language show on HBO about goths, entrepreneurship, and chocolate. He\\u2019s keeping it weird, and that\\u2019s just how he likes it.Fred joins\\xa0Off Camera\\xa0to talk about finding a lifesaver and pen pal in director John Waters, why The Clash informs just about everything in his life, and the time he got sent to the school psychologist just because he wanted to burn down Main Street."