{"id":67174,"date":"2019-01-30T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T00:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=67174"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T00:54:36","slug":"fred-armisens-comedy-for-musicians-but-everyone-is-welcome-tour-stops-at-the-lyric-theatre-february-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/fred-armisens-comedy-for-musicians-but-everyone-is-welcome-tour-stops-at-the-lyric-theatre-february-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Armisen&#8217;s &#8220;Comedy For Musicians But Everyone is Welcome&#8221; Tour Stops at The Lyric Theatre February 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <br>Comedian <strong>Fred Armisen<\/strong> is bringin his &#8220;Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome&#8221; tour to Oxford February 4, 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/500_FredArmisen.png?resize=500%2C500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67176\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest show from the comedian \u2014 of &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; &#8220;Portlandia,&#8221; and &#8220;Documentary Now!&#8221; \u2014 combines his musical skills with signature deadpan and absurdist humor and intense dedication to extremely dumb-smart bits. The audience for his 2018 Netflix special &#8220;Standup For Drummers&#8221; was made up entirely of drummers, the subject of his percussion-focused observational humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also has released a series of singles performed in character-bands (among them: soft rock duo <strong>The Bjelland Brothers<\/strong>, art rockers <strong>The Fingerlings<\/strong>, hardcore punk band <strong>Crisis of Conformity<\/strong>, and &#8217;70s rock band <strong>The Blue Jean Committee<\/strong>, also the subject of a &#8220;Documentary Now!&#8221; two-parter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also released a 28-minute instructional DVD as Jens Hannemann, a drummer known for his patented &#8220;Complication Drumming Technique.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Comedy for Musicians But Everyone is Welcome&#8221; will take place at <strong>The Lyric Theatre<\/strong> in Oxford February 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAhvJMcLShU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Fred Armisen is bringin his &#8220;Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome&#8221; tour to Oxford February 4,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":67175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7149],"tags":[13900,13897,13902,4,7761,8924,13898,13901,13899,6068],"class_list":["post-67174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-comedy","tag-crisis-of-conformity","tag-fred-armisen","tag-jens-hannemann","tag-oxford","tag-portlandia","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-the-bjelland-brothers","tag-the-blue-jean-committee","tag-the-fingerlings","tag-the-lyric-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/USATSI-Fred-Armisen-1.jpg?fit=775%2C515&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}