Fred Armisen on “100 Sound Effects”
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Fred Armeson, well, he's got a thing about sound. He does a bit where he claims to be able to imitate
every single accent in American speech. Yins go there to Pittsburgh. And then uh down to Baltimore, uh, motor oil. I always think motor oil. Baltimore.
Motor oil. Then then down uh Virginia. Virginia. And on Saturday Night Live he co-wrote the recurring sketch about how people talk in LA.
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