A Visit From Portlandia was right at home at Netflix Is a Joke. For starters, the half-hour IFC comedy continues to garner new fans on the streaming service.
The series debuted over 15 years ago, but Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s series still plays fresh to new viewers. Time is already kind to Portlandia, which was properly celebrated by its creators with laughs and music during Netflix’s comedy festival.
How A Former Presidential Nominee Brought Them Together
Armisen and Brownstein first collaborated back around 2003, which was also around the time they first met. “We met at SNL,” Brownstein recalled. “I’m in a band called Sleater-Kinney. We were playing a show in New York, and Fred was on SNL. We couldn’t go to SNL and Fred couldn’t come to our show. So, he said, ‘Come to the afterparty.’ It was Jennifer Garner as the host and Beck as the musical guest. When we met, Fred was wearing a little button with my face on it – which was not scary but actually very sweet. Fred asked me to make a video with him. I assumed we were going to make a musical, but he had something a little more creative in mind.”
“I was asked by the John Kerry campaign – for real – to do a video,” Armisen added…