Fred Armisen knows that nobody can ever tell whether he’s joking or not—and he doesn’t quite understand why. Despite being one of the hands-down funniest Saturday Night Live cast members of all time, Armisen can, in fact, be pretty sincere when he wants to be. It’s a trait that shines through on his latest project: a painstakingly produced album of 100 Sound Effects that provides some observational laughs here and there but is generally intended as an accurate document of what the world sounds like in 2025.

In this episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Armisen discusses how his obsession with sound helped him become an expert mimic on SNL, whether he was impersonating President Barack Obama or capturing a very specific Californian dialect. He talks about roasting Lorne Michaels during the

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