Standup for Drummers is a huge disappointment, whether you're a drummer or beat deaf, humorous or puritan. It disappoints because it isn't the least bit funny and even the drumming is tiresome. The Netflix tease for this Fred Armisen show captured my attention. I like drums. I like comedy. I like Fred Armisen. But, man oh man, I thought this was pretty bad, save for a few bits. Mostly, I was bored and disappointed and upon reflection, I can't say I laughed a single time. Where's the comedy? Armisen can drum, but it wasn't like he put on an amazing percussion performance either. I liked his review of drum kits across several decades, and his letter correspondence with John Waters was a touching piece. But both of those account for a tiny part of the act. All of his bits started with amateur openings like, "this is an impression of...," "did you ever notice...," and I'm not sure if that was for fun, all part of the act, or if he really is that bad at stand up. The drumming was better than the comedy. But even if he flipped it and went with, Drumming for Comedians, he still wouldn't have enough for a show. Even when Armisen and three professional drummers are on the stage together, he chooses to bore us to death. They all tap along to the same boring beat. Maybe he intended this to be funny in some way-if that was the intention it didn't work because no one was laughing, instead people were clapping along, probably waiting for something thrilling, but all they got was a flat, dry, ho-hum, and mind-mumblingly dumb synchronized rat-a-tats. It was the best opportunity to wow his audience and instead he had everyone tap away to the same beat, killed his show, the audience, and me.

I remember Fred from SNL. I like drums. I used to play drums. So when I saw this on Netflix, I was excited to have a great fun stuff combined with drums. Oh boy!Not sure what this was supposed to mean, but the show is painfuly slow, Fred seems uneasy most of the time and the jokes? Why on Earth, just after a hardly acceptable funny intro, he starts to mimic literaly all accents across US? Where's the connection? Just a stuff to kill the time.Then, we have the drums. Fred is OK on the instrument but plays quick snippets, but nevermind - he has guests. Cool - Tomas Lang, Tre. The joy is quickly over when you realize they're only playing sidekicks in a dialogues that do not even make any sense. And the ending bit, with everyone playing the same stuff? Come on, Fred!After 30 minutes into the flick, I was in agony. It was so painful to watch, that I nearly gave up. Bonus - there are only 2 funny bits - and those are the clips from visiting a drum/music store. When Vinnie Colaiuta showed up in the ending, I knew this was the only highlight for me.Totally wasted opportunity. Pitty.

Thought this was gonna be a brilliant twist on comedy and a specially humoured piece for drummers, which don't get me wrong it was fun for drummers... for about 15 minutes in total... then it was all a bit mixed up really... Going through decades of drumming with the drum-sets in the middle was a let down... although he outlined a cool concept, it was just a little dry for comedy. Tbh I thought he was going to invite audience members to play and do a little maestro bit. Guests were a real buzzkill for me... all the guests came on and did some very damp jokes with FA but none of them were really that funny for punchline humour. He 'bigged' up Thomas Lang and gave him a good intro... and he didn't play drums until the end, WTF! They did some quirky story bit with a script and it was jut cringy really, he's a drummer, and he was announced as an amazing drummer. And only one drum beat was played by him. The three guests came back on stage and did a beat between the four of them all at the same pace. Great! A bit of drumming to end this horror-show! Wrong. Again. Well correct but man oh man did expectations (again) go too far. He shouted each name out and they played solo for about 5 seconds each, but there no fills or bits, just the same beat. I'm a drummer and for me I'd be bursting to do that if you were told to play the same beat over and over and not give those Toms a good seeing to! Overall; A full viewing is not not recommended, for lovers of drums or comedy. Sorry.

Fred starts off with a familiar tone that one would expect from him but continues on with lazy joke writing and overdone gags. Many of the "relatable" jokes for drummers seem to be just "You know when..." and "Don't you just hate it when (insert relatable thing for drummers)" All in all one can see he is a talented comedian but his attempt at trying to be niche seem to have failed in my opinion.