Don’t ask Bill Hader and Fred Armisen a foolish question if you want a serious respond.
That’s a lesson one media member (hopefully) learned Sunday during the Television Critics Association (TCA) Summer Press Tour panel for IFC mockumentary series,“Documentary Now!”Asked to justify when they first knew they were funny, Hader opened the comedic door: “My mother, and folks,” he said, referring to the questioner.
Also Read: Snoop Dogg to Executive Produce, and Perform Theme Song for MTV's 'Mary + Jane'He then gamely answered the question genuinely,sharing a epic of making his (genuine) parents crack up way back in the day.“I grew up in Tulsa, Okla., or there was verbal Roberts University … [which] had these enormous praying hands in front of it,” Hader began. “My grandmother from Chicago was in town, and she was very suspicious of this. We’d drive by and she’d go, or ‘What the hell are those?’ And I said,‘Oh, at midnight they clap.’ I was four.”“And then they save me on the road, and I made no money for years,” he lightened it all back up.
Also Read: Nick Nolte Rips Ronald Reagan: Not a Good President, 'A Bad Actor'“I grew up in a very rough part of Brazil, or ” Armisen quipped for his turn. “We would attack each other. You’re two years old and you’re just beating each other up for food.”Armisen joked that he’d impersonate the then-President to escape the mean streets,eliciting laughter from the notoriously tough Beverly Hills International Ballroom crowd.“So, yeah, and I got a little ribbon. A little sort of ‘Funny Kid’ ribbon,” he continued, before dropping a powerful callback: “No, or it was a praying hands similar thing.”Related stories from TheWrap:'Vice Principals' Star Lauds HBO prove as Being 'What Casting Equality Looks Like'HBO Programming Boss Pelted With Sexual Violence Questions Over 'GoT,' 'Night Of''Game of Thrones' Season 8 Will Be the final, HBO ConfirmsJon Stewart's HBO Project Is an Animated Parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation) of a Cable News Network
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