Fred Armisen

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150 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

Fred Armisen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · The Sounds of Summer, with Fred Armisen · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

First of all...

as cliche as it might sound, the sound of the music in the streets, because they had samba schools, not educational schools, samba being like a school, meaning a group of percussionists.

And we lived right near Copacabana Beach, and somewhere around December or so, they'd start rehearsing.

So that's one sound you would hear is like the sound of drums.

Yeah.

TV sounded really different.

And the Brazilian kids, so we spoke English and we went to an American school.

I was like seven and eight or something.

But the kids, not in a mean way, would make fun of kids who spoke English, the Brazilian kids, and they would mimic us.

And so we'd be talking and they'd be like, they would say like, like that was their version of what we sounded like.

Huh, right.

SNL has such a specific sound that it's what I picture most with the, because I love SNL, with the cold open.

There's like this hiss right at the cold open.

I don't know what it comes from, the mics being on or something.

So you hear the audience giggle a little, but then there's this like...

And it's only SNL where you're like, they're about to start the cold open.

It must be half a second.

But there's a sound that's like, it begins this way.

And sometimes elevator conversation sounds like this.

New York is like almost too easy in that there's so many sounds going on at the same time.

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