It doesn’t take a lot of dot-connecting genius to figure why music was a crucial component of “Portlandia,” which recently wrapped its eighth and final season. The host city is a rock town, but more ...

During a visit to the set of Portlandia last year, I noticed Janet Weiss off to the side, watching the monitors as Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen prepared to film a sketch with Kumail Nanjiani. It ...

brought an audience member onstage to play the part of Armisen and Brownstein's child. On the screen behind them, footage of a cruise around Portland neighborhoods ran, while Armisen, Brownstein and ...

“Portlandia” star says Donald Trump could make political punk protests relevant again. On the eighth and final season of the offbeat IFC sketch-comedy show, Armisen and Carrie Brownstein help a ...

“Portlandia” began its eighth and final season on IFC on Jan. 18. The sketch comedy show put Portland on the map as the capital of earnest urbanism at a time when words like “artisanal” and “locavore” ...

Over the course of its eight season run, the IFC comedy Portlandia has played host to many rock legends and indie stalwarts. Jack White showed up for an episode. So has Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock.

“Portlandia” never received mainstream recognition, but Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are probably fine with that. The show kicks off its eighth and final season this week, and since 2011, the ...

Our individual tastes in comedy say an awful lot about us, obviously, and it’s not just as simple as “Dane Cook people” versus “Louis CK people.” For instance, you either “get” IFC’s sketch-comedy ...

The fourth season of Portlandia starts with a sketch that more or less encapsulates the social critique-mixed-with-absurdity aesthetic of the show. Featuring Kirsten Dunst as a house-sitter who is ...

The IFC series recently wrapped its eighth and final season. ARMISEN: Squiggleman was a character (played by Berry) who was a popular singer of children’s music. When our characters, Brendan and ...