Fred Armisen: Standup for Drummers

2018 "I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day."
5.8| 1h5m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 06 February 2018 Released
Producted By: Netflix
Country: United States of America
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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.

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Comedy, Music

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Lance Bangs

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Netflix

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Wordiezett So much average
Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike
Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
danjordan-79510 Thought this was gonna be a brilliant twist on comedy and a specially humoured piece for drummers, which don't get me wrong it was fun for drummers... for about 15 minutes in total... then it was all a bit mixed up really... Going through decades of drumming with the drum-sets in the middle was a let down... although he outlined a cool concept, it was just a little dry for comedy. Tbh I thought he was going to invite audience members to play and do a little maestro bit. Guests were a real buzzkill for me... all the guests came on and did some very damp jokes with FA but none of them were really that funny for punchline humour. He 'bigged' up Thomas Lang and gave him a good intro... and he didn't play drums until the end, WTF! They did some quirky story bit with a script and it was jut cringy really, he's a drummer, and he was announced as an amazing drummer. And only one drum beat was played by him. The three guests came back on stage and did a beat between the four of them all at the same pace. Great! A bit of drumming to end this horror-show! Wrong. Again. Well correct but man oh man did expectations (again) go too far. He shouted each name out and they played solo for about 5 seconds each, but there no fills or bits, just the same beat. I'm a drummer and for me I'd be bursting to do that if you were told to play the same beat over and over and not give those Toms a good seeing to! Overall; A full viewing is not not recommended, for lovers of drums or comedy. Sorry.
spencercmckee This is the first time I've ever made a review on IMDB. I was so utterly shocked at how bad this special is that I felt the need to share with the world my repulsion.Full disclosure: I only made it less than halfway through this special. I kept waiting for it to get good, or for there to be even a single funny joke. There wasn't. Nothing Fred Armisen says or does during this special is worth watching or listening to. The thing is, I know that Fred Armisen is a drummer, a perfectly fine drummer with a few decades of experience. Of course, he's a very well known comedian, with plenty of funny work under his belt. So this should be a no-brainer. Drum jokes? Sure! They should come naturally for Fred Armisen.Except exactly none of this special feels natural for him. All of the drum-related jokes are remarkably low-brow surface-tier observations that could be made even by non-drummers, assuming they've spent more than 5 minutes talking to or listening to a drummer. Strangely, most of the jokes seem dismissive of aspects of drumming that are clearly taken seriously by most drummers. He compares selecting cymbals to "testing fine wine," making fun of drummers by saying that at the end of the day, they're all just cymbals. Being a drummer for as long as he has, I would expect him to recognize that there actually is an incredibly wide variety of sounds of cymbals, and that's one of the joys of the art of percussion. Early in the special, he says that he's critical of jazz music because he can't remember the melodies after the songs end. WTF??? Anybody who has spent any time seriously thinking about jazz would know that that is not the intended takeaway of a lot of jazz, and it's incredibly shallow of him to both have that opinion and think that an audience full of jazz drummers would find that funny.He also fills this special with very mediocre and boring "impressions," which don't really add anything at all, and just seem to reinforce his inability to come up with anything witty or observant to joke about related to drumming.This is a stunningly bad special. Do not watch it.
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?
marcosalvaradoortiz Fred starts off with a familiar tone that one would expect from him but continues on with lazy joke writing and overdone gags. Many of the "relatable" jokes for drummers seem to be just "You know when..." and "Don't you just hate it when (insert relatable thing for drummers)" All in all one can see he is a talented comedian but his attempt at trying to be niche seem to have failed in my opinion.