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Lots of folks are excited about this weekend’s SNL skit that featured cast member Fred Armisen leading a fictional ’80s hardcore band Crisis of Conformity, now middle-aged performing at Armisen’s daughter’s wedding. More than just a funny gag, the group—which also featured Dave Grohl in an awful greying ponytail wig—hit all the right cues when it comes to this semi-forgotten punk rock sub-genre. From the Reagan fascism references to Armisen’s Darby Crash-meets-Herny Rollins stage postures, and the song, “Fist Fight In A Parking Lot” that could have easily come off your old Black Flag cassette tapes.
Off course, Armisen has genuine punk rock credentials, starting his entertainment career in the Chicago math-rock band Trenchmouth. And Armisen got into a serious discussion of punk rock in an URB feature last spring. Here’s some of our favorite clips of Armisen waving his punk flag high.
Check out the behind-the-scenes action and interview with Fred Armisen, shot on location at the Red Bull Space during Xmas break from Fred’s day job at Saturday Night Live.
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THE GOVERNOR? HE AIN’T LOVIN’ YA
Just before this interview, I watch Fred Armisen’s Saturday Night Live performance as New York ’s legally blind Governor David Paterson—the unexpected fill-in for disgraced politicaltitan-in-the-making former Governor Eliot Spitzer, who’d made enemies on Wall St., City Government, and Organized Crime in Gotham. The newly-promoted Paterson is six days away from selecting a senatorial replacement for Hillary Clinton, and is currently embroiled in a campaign with powerful allies of Caroline Kennedy, who are pressuring him to select her to fill the Senate vacancy.
Armisen’s impersonation of the Governor delivers what can be seen as either the exponential scale-up of a lunchroom bully turning the cafeteria into a Parthenon of shame, or a bold bit of in-your-face physical comedy. It serves as a garish eminder of our unfamiliarity with the disabled, whom society de-normalizes—as evidenced …
If you haven’t been in a cave these last few months, then you are aware that late night television as we know it has transitioned. On NBC, Conan will replace Jay Leno and SNL star Jimmy Fallon will replace Conan this week.
So 2008’s breakthrough blogger was none other than Kanye West. As if he wasn’t stacking enough accolades from all that music shit. His blog was something of a beast, sometimes out-posting some of the Internuts’ fiercest posters and getting exclusives to boot. But if one thing kept dude’s coming back, it was Yeezy’s taste in women. Check out the Top 10 Ladies of KanyeUniverseCity.com/blog below.
Model/video vixen Vanessa Wilson gets a nod mostly because she is not real. The photoshopping game in the above photo is gravity-defying bananas and reminds us of that TLC video where Chili uses a computer to imagine larger breasts for her mans and them.
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