Fred Armisen is an actor, comedian and musician best known for his work as a longtime cast member on Saturday Night Live.
Carrie Brownstein is a musician, writer, and actress, best known as a guitarist and vocalist in the now-defunct Portland, Oregon-based band Sleater-Kinney. In 2006 she was the only woman to earn a spot in the Rolling Stone readers' list of the 25 'Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time.'
Together Armisen and Brownstein created the TV series Portlandia.