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| (On the left) Carrie Browstein; (on the right) Fred Arminsen |
To be honest, I've never watched any shows from the IFC channel and have only heard its name until I checked out Portlandia. The geniuses behind the show are Fred Arminsen and Carrie Brownstein. To me Fred (yes, I call him Fred) is a familiar face because ever since I have been watching Saturday Night Live, he's been on it (and he's been GREAT, now raise your glass--
clink). Carrie is a new face to me, and she is a Portland resident. In some interviews, they told the reporters they came up the ideas by sitting outside of a coffee shop, and then just looked at passers-by, like, really observed what they were doing, who they were talking to on the phone, somehow, those people inspired them for a new sketch.
I'd say this comedy show is funny in its peculiar way: its quirkiness, geographical uniqueness, and cast.
The show features Fred and Carrie as characters throughout many stories, and these pieces of stories will make up for each episode.
