FRED ARMISEN

Fred Armisen was born December 4, 1966 and is an American musician, comedian, and actor, best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Armisen began his career in 1988 when he moved from New York to Chicago to play drums for the punk rock band Trenchmouth.In the 1990s, he played background drums with the Blue Man Group in Chicago. In 1997, he toured with Those Bastard Souls, a project of David Shouse of The Grifters which also featured The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd. He plays drums on three tracks on Les Savy Fav's 2007 album, Let's Stay Friends. While playing with Trenchmouth, Armisen's interests switched to performing. In a January 2006 interview with The AV Club, he explained it this way I wanted to be on TV somehow. For some reason, I always thought it would be an indirect route, I didn't know that it would be comedy and Saturday Night Live. I just wanted to do something with performing that would lead me there. Armisen's subsequent television work, such as some "memorable Andy Kaufman-esque appearances" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as well as work for Crank Yankers and Adult Swim, led in 2002 to a role as a featured player in the cast of Saturday Night Live.In the 2004 season, he was promoted to a repertory cast member. Armisen has done a handful of supporting roles in comedy films, such as the creepy Italian man in the film Eurotrip and roles in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Deck the Halls, The Ex, The Promotion, The Rocker and Confessions of a Shopaholic.