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Fred Armisen on Recording the Sounds of the Everyday

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Fred Armisen performs at An Evening With Bob Mould at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on August 25, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images)

Airdate: Tuesday, December 2 at 10AM

Fred Armisen, the comedian, actor and musician known for “Portlandia,” “Documentary Now!” and “SNL,” has a new album out called “100 Sound Effects.” There’s a jacket zipping, glass shattering, the “ooh” of receiving room service and even the sound we make when “Walking into a Video Room at an Art Museum and then Walking Out Quickly,” as the effect is titled. We’ll talk with Armisen about recording the sounds of the everyday, and we want to hear from you: What’s a sound you’d record in your life or would want preserved in a sound effect library decades from now?

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Fred Armisen, comedian, actor and musician, known for “Portlandia,” “Documentary Now!” and “Saturday Night Live" - his new project is “100 Sound Effects”

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