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" Art should not be an easy thing. "
Fred Armisen
Thing
Should
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" I started comedy in, like, 1998. "
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" Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV. "
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" I really loved touring with my band, but it felt like we would spend a lot of time playing in empty rooms - empty clubs. We had some good successes, but it's so physically hard to load up a van and drive all day. "
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" Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots. "
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" I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close. "
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" I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.' "
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" I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.' "
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" No yoga. I can barely sit down. "
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" At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It's linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you're at the end of it. "
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You
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" I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far. "
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Playing
Most
" Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch. "
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" Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time. "
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" I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar. "
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" My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney. "
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Linda
" Everywhere I go, somebody says something to me. It's really nice. "
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Nice
Somebody
Something
" I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled. "
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Fun
Time
" We almost called the 'Portlandia' show 'Stumptown.' That was the original name. "
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Show
" I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much. "
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Doing
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" For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project. "
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" Bill Hader does a really good impression of me. "
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Bill
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