Finding videos of Fred Armisen speaking fluent Spanish with a Venezuelan accent aren't the absolute easiest to come upon, but that's why you have us. We recently learned that Fred Armisen and Horatio Sanz created an offshoot of Lorne Michael's company, Broadway Video.
Fred and Horatio's part in Broadway Video is heading Más Mejor (literally, "more better"), a hilarious web platform that seeks to make Latino comedy more mainstream. They do that by uploading weekly content that includes topical sketches and web videos, but instead of "pandering to Latinos," as Remezcla notes, Más Mejor's content instead reflects the Latino creators' own experiences.
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And that includes Spanish-language sketches (there's a lot of English ones as well) by head honchos Fred Armisen and Horatio Sanz. I laughed for the entire duration of this unboxing video, but what stuck out to me most was that Horatio's Spanish is impeccable, while Fred's accent is great but his delivery and vocab could use some practice.
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But it appears I'm not the first one to catch onto this. "I thought I was fluent," Fred admitted in a recent episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers. "Around my friends, I sound like I'm from Venezuela and immediately [my co-creators on Los Espookys] were like, 'No, you have a thick American accent.'"
Fun fact: Fred also voiced Speedy Gonzalez in 2011's The Looney Tunes Show. Wild, right?!
New episodes of Los Espookys air Fridays at 11 p.m. on HBO.