Fred Armisen: Standup for Drummers
Fred Armisen: Standup for Drummers
| 06 February 2018 (USA)
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For an audience of drummers, comedian Fred Armisen shares and demonstrates his thoughts on musical genres, drummer quirks, regional accents and more.

Reviews
Adeel Hail

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

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Arianna Moses

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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Loui Blair

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

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Rosie Searle

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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cfergojr

I've never heard of Fred Armisen before, and I hope to never hear of him again. This special was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. You seriously have to watch it to see how unfunny it is. Seriously, stop reading this review right now! Go pull up Netflix on your TV, in your web browser or w/e you use and put it on. If you can make it to the end of the special, you deserve a years worth of Netflix for free. Hell, I'll front the bill.It was so terrible, in fact, that I actually had an epiphany after making it through about 30 minutes of this dumpster fire of a special, I shut off Netflix, went into my garage, packed up my drum kit and threw it right in the trash. "Why?" you may ask... because this standup killed drumming for me. It made me realize that I've wasted 20 years of my life. I could've been doing so much more, I thought. So I immediately poured myself a nice, cold glass of Guinness and decide on a new hobby. Today, I crochet! That's right I took up crocheting. I took all my drumsticks and made Shepard hooks out of them (why waste good wood). Yeah, yeah, I know, it's very different from drumming.It's quiet, relaxing and keeps me off the internet, Netflix and anywhere near that godawful special.

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karelf-257-622132

I remember Fred from SNL. I like drums. I used to play drums. So when I saw this on Netflix, I was excited to have a great fun stuff combined with drums. Oh boy!Not sure what this was supposed to mean, but the show is painfuly slow, Fred seems uneasy most of the time and the jokes? Why on Earth, just after a hardly acceptable funny intro, he starts to mimic literaly all accents across US? Where's the connection? Just a stuff to kill the time.Then, we have the drums. Fred is OK on the instrument but plays quick snippets, but nevermind - he has guests. Cool - Tomas Lang, Tre. The joy is quickly over when you realize they're only playing sidekicks in a dialogues that do not even make any sense. And the ending bit, with everyone playing the same stuff? Come on, Fred!After 30 minutes into the flick, I was in agony. It was so painful to watch, that I nearly gave up. Bonus - there are only 2 funny bits - and those are the clips from visiting a drum/music store. When Vinnie Colaiuta showed up in the ending, I knew this was the only highlight for me.Totally wasted opportunity. Pitty.

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cpuguru

Shockingly bad. An unwatchable train wreck. Dogsh!t

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matthijsalexander

The title is spot on as far as I am concerned. I know about 4 drummers though, and I would not know they would enjoy this either. Fred starts with some very dull stories, some very weak impression (which he stupidly announces) and continues on a path that I personally found somewhat boring. When he does the accents, you can see he has talent and wit. But even that wasn't funny. I switched Fred off after 10 minutes. With deep regret. I sincerely hope all the drummers in the world had a blast.I know, especially with comedy beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and comedy can't really be reviewed ............but this makes me truly wonder: This is what comedy is now? What's next? Comedy for Trombone players?

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