The pilot for Fred Armisen's new IFC show, Portlandia, is now available on Hulu (embedded below). The episode, like Fred Armisen, is pretty weird and occasionally it stumbles into some funny moments, but it could certainly be better. Fred is way funnier than most of his recent SNL work, but given the state of SNL these days that's not exactly an accomplishment. I didn't laugh once while watching it, but I did say "that's funny" to myself once every few minutes. It's definitely not something I can set aside half an hour a week to watch, but by my calculations, even if the entire populations of Portland, Williamsburg and Silver Lake watch show that won't be enough to keep it on the air, so I probably don't have to worry about that.
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