Fred Armisen and Friends

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He was a drummer for a decade before anybody thought of him as funny, and it still shows in the timing. Armisen played in a Chicago post-hardcore band for years, and the muscle he built there is the reason his characters land on the beat rather than near it — watch him do an accent and you are actually watching a percussionist count. Nobody will tell you who else is playing. An "and Friends" bill at this address means the host does some time, then walks people out whose names were printed nowhere, usually working comics who live twenty minutes away and wanted a stage with no cameras pointed at it. There is a decent chance a drum kit appears. The theatre holds under three hundred, close enough to see a performer abandon a bit mid-sentence and go hunting for a better one, and nothing gets recorded, so whatever you get is the only copy. Will call opens at six and doors at seven for an eight o'clock start, Tuesday, November 10. Forty dollars.