Fred Armisen Does Every North American Accent | Standup For Drummers | Netflix Is A Joke

Fred’s been around the country a bit. Probably too much.

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[AttnDefDis_]

"Wisconsin's more Chicago than Chicago." I was dying at that part. Go Fred!

[rabpanz]

As someone who's lived in the northwest their entire life, I was having a good chuckle and then he got to Seattle and Portland and my immediate reaction was just "oh he's talking normally now." Lunacy.

[ivanreiss]

I love how he randomly chooses little phrases to exemplify some accents, but they’re not entirely random.

[jusferstuff]

I’m from Long Island, live in queens, work in Manhattan with people mostly from Brooklyn and Bronx and holy fuck he headshotted us all with perfection

[therealjmc]

“That’s my business, not yours.” - Everyone in Connecticut at least once a day. Accurate can confirm

[justmeyo]

I lived in Houston for 6 years. I didn't realize there was a Houston specific accent and then he did it and my ears just had this primal reaction. Like I was listening to a family member

[haleigh]

"I am from Seattle, these are the words." Killed me

[tb]

"i was born in miami, but i still have this accent”.

[colinr]

"You mentioned two pumpkins...not sure...just rethinkin what you said there..."

[turkeybowlwinkle]

No one has an accent until they leave where they're from.

[MightyManotaur]

This is such a good "accents 101" approach. I remember learning in acting school that two of the most important tenants of doing accents is finding where the sound lives in your mouth and in your body, and finding a phrase or two that gets you to that place. Fred's doing both of these really rapidly, which is cool!

[penguinexpress]

If there wasn’t a live audience this could be given as a lecture in a linguistics class

[EmmieB]

"Wisconsin's more Chicago than Chicago" 😂

[joshuabrazile]

Why do I feel like this is his vocal warmup before everything he does? Queens, nobody told me, queens, brooklyn, Maine "You're on in 5 Fred." OK, thanks 5. QUEENS!

[dixonbuttes]

Bro the fact you know the difference between Cuban and Mexican dialects makes me happy

[lengthmuldoon]

As a Brit I found that truly educational

[pecanarchy]

As a North Carolinian I came into this expecting to be offended, and then he got to us and I had to pause the video because I thought my dad was saying something. That was unbelievable.

[thecountess]

"Cubans are like MÍRAME!" - dead lmao

[Brione]

Honestly, as an improv performer, I’m just impressed that he was able to change his accent so quickly

[xopi]

His mother is Venezuelan and he lived briefly in Brazil. Hence the perfect Spanish accents. His paternal grandpa was Korean. Loved the SoCal accent. Nailed it.