-Can we talk about "Documentary Now!"?
Just say yes. [ Light laughter ]
Come on, man. Let's talk about it.
[ Laughter ] Come on, man.
-A-All right. -Come on, man.
-Come on, man. -Talk about "Documentary Now!"
-Say something, man! -Say it, man.
-"Documentary Now!" -Yeah, "Documentary Now!"
Dude, I love it. Season three?
-Yeah. -Wow!
-It's gonna be on ABC in the morning.
-Nope, that's not true at all. -Not true at all.
-No, it's on -- -I made that up.
-It's on IFC. It's not on ABC at all.
But, dude, it's a lot of work, those things.
-It's insane. -It's you and Seth --
Seth Meyers and Bill Hader, right?
-And we have some more cast members and stuff.
It's these fake documentaries that we do.
And we shoot them -- [ Laughter ]
-No, it really is. -It is.
-Yeah. -It is.
[ Laughter ]
-I know! -I know!
-And, uh -- We shoot them just all over the place.
Colombia and Iceland. We do.
That part's real. -Who cares?
-Who cares? -Who cares?
-Who cares about your project?
-Who cares and you talking about the thing,
where you're shooting and -- yeah.
Do an impression, come on. Just do the bit.
Just do the dumb bit. -I've been working
on some impressions of accents through the decades.
-Let's go back to 1900s. -So, 1900s --
[ Stiffly ] The manufacturer and the farmer.
People thought it was British,
but it's actually very Dutch and German.
[ Stiffly ] The manufacturer and the farmer.
In the '20s, they start getting very aware of the microphone,
and then it sort of opens up in the '30s.
Quiet now. Quiet now.
Quiet.
And then the '50s, the '50s it starts
to flatten out a little bit. [ Light laughter ]
The '50s -- The '50s -- It starts --
I liked to -- On a Friday night,
I'd like to read a book on a Friday night.
There's the '50s. The '60s diverges a little bit,
where there's an official sort of, "In the news are..."
And then -- And then, the sort of people
in interviews looked like they were in shock.
Everyone was sort of like, "Yeah, wow."
[ Laughter ]
We want the universe to know...
A spiritual awakening. [ Laughter ]
And then, the '70s, it was kind of a whisper.
The '70s has a whisper to it.
The '70s -- There's a sort of confusion.
There's a whisper.
And then, the '90s is very kind of laid -- wow.
The '90s laid back.
Yay. Very sarcastic and ironic.
Wow.
And then, the 2000s, you start to hear the vocal fry.
The guys are in a meeting and they can --
You can sort of hear that throughout when they're talking
on a conference call. You can hear --
[ Laughter ]
That's it. -Oh, my gosh.
That is absolutely -- That was actually amazing.
-I was showing off. -"I was showing off."
-I'm sorry. -I love it.
What do we have to look forward to in "Documentary Now!"
this season? -"Documentary Now!"
Let's see, we did a bunch of -- [ Laughter ]
We shot in Budapest, Hungary.
We did one with Cate Blanchett.
-What is this one that we have a clip of?
-This one is Cate Blanchett and myself as these two artists.
It's kind of based on Marina Abramovic,
the performance artist.
So this is us painting ourselves and going up against the wall.
-I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's the great Fred Armisen and Cate Blanchett --
the great Cate Blanchett --
in the new season of "Documentary Now!"
Take a look at this.
-My opinion was that she carried Demo.
You had a woman who risked everything in her art
and a man who risked nothing.
-I conceived these performance impressions.
Two lovers covered in paint,
violently lunging ourselves into the canvas.
So that even when we left, we would remain.
-"Impressions" was identical to an original piece
of Isabella's, called "Misremembered."
-It is very different.
This piece is of two people, not one.
Very different.
That paint is black, this is blue.
Blue is different than black.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Fred Armisen, everybody! "Documentary Now!"
Returns this Wednesday at 11:00 p.m. on IFC,
and go see Fred on tour.