Last week I had the honor of attending a meet and greet lunch at Besaws with the stars of Portlandia, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein (the duo behind the website Thunderant). The show is set air on IFC sometime in early 2011.
The first thing you should know about Portlandia is that they’re not making fun of anybody. Okay? THEY'RE NOT MAKING FUN OF US.
Co-Executive Producer, Andrew Singer says, "One thing I think that’s important to Fred and Carrie is to communicate to the local audience and the country that they love Portland and it should feel as celebratory as it is satirical. It’s not meant to make fun of Portland. We want people, the locals especially, to feel like it’s a cool thing and its not like they’re the butt of the joke.
Director, Jonathan Krisel chimes in, "Yeah, most of the time, these two [Fred and Carrie] are the butt of the joke and Portland gets the last laugh."
Before sitting down to eat, Fred and Carrie had to answer some fairly lame questions from a TV reporter who got some facts wrong, and was told by Brownstein to never “listen to anything on the news”. BURN!
More after the jump...