Celebrity cameos on Portlandia range from the recurring (think Kyle MacLachlan as “Mayor”) to the kooky and entrepreneurial (Jeff Goldblum hawking actual knots), so multi-hyphenate performer Rachel Bloom’s appearance in the final season could really go anywhere. Does she lead a marching band through the city, or maybe…

In honor of the eighth and final season of Portlandia premiering this Thursday, The A.V. Club has compiled clips of every guest star to appear on the long-running IFC sketch-comedy series. Watch above to see cameos from the likes of Bill Hader, Eddie Vedder, Maya Rudolph, Greta Gerwig, and many more.

If Carrie Brownstein were to retire today, she’d leave behind the legacy of several different artistic careers: First as a vital part of the Pacific Northwest feminist punk scene as a member of Excuse 17, then as an internationally famous rock star with Sleater-Kinney, and then as a successful comedienne, actress,…

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has announced a number of guest stars who will show up in the long-awaited new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. We already knew that Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen would be returning to harass Larry David some more, and that Lauren Graham will be there to play someone with…

Portlandia co-mastermind Carrie Brownstein has lined up her first feature directing gig, with Deadline reporting that the Sleater-Kinney rocker has been tapped to direct MGM’s upcoming Fairy Godmother film. Written by blogger/playwright Chiara Atik, the film centers on the titular supernatural services provider, who…

The new season of Portlandia has been as packed as ever with guest stars, including Kyle MacLachlan and Kumail Nanjiani (who are practically regulars), as well as Judy Greer and Maria Bamford. This week, the series will welcome one of its most anticipated guest stars—Tim Heidecker, who’s hosted Portlandia co-creator…

Early in Portlandia’s run, the show established a friendly relationship with the local basketball team, as former Trail Blazers star LaMarcus Aldridge proved to be quite an amusing comic foil. Now, with Aldridge in San Antonio, Damian Lillard has taken over as the team’s biggest star, so it makes sense that he would…

At the recent Television Critics Association press tour, the jaded crowd actually groaned when IFC announced that Portlandia’s eighth season next year would be its last. Since 2011, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have been poking fun at hipster culture as they offer up a variety of (often gender-switched)…

Well, it’s finally here. After months of hoping that we’d all awake from the nightmare we’ve been living in, Donald Trump is taking the oath of office. In that time, musicians of all genres have expressed their dissent through music, and today two new compilations have been released as forms of protest, with all…

Across six seasons, Portlandia has used Portland’s real-life feminist bookstore In Other Words as the basis and filming location for its fictional analogue Women & Women First—a relationship that even predates the IFC series, dating back to Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s earliest comedy work as Thunderant. But…

Sleater-Kinney guitarist and Portlandia creator Carrie Brownstein continues to demonstrate her sharp eye for satire with a short film for the French clothing company Kenzo. The film, written and directed by Brownstein, debuted yesterday during the show for the fashion line’s fall-winter collection at New York’s…

For a show that gets most of its laughs out of small-scale events—a feminist bookstore, karaoke nights, beach trips, various local businesses opening and closing—Portlandia has a marked taste for the epic in its finales. Beginning with season two’s “Brunch Special,” the season finales of Portlandia depend on raising…

Season six of Portlandia has gotten a lot of mileage out of pushing its characters outside their comfort zones. Some of it’s lighter stuff like asking Vincent to go out in sunlight, but there’s been more than a few stories that have actual heft to them beyond normal expectations. Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are…

With only three episodes to go this season, it’s surprising that it’s taken as long as it has for Portlandia to return to the well of Toni and Candace. The owners of Women and Women First are the show’s most iconic characters, and clearly the ones who Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have the most fun writing for…

One of the best moments at last week’s Academy Awards was seeing Louis C.K. make an unexpected appearance as the presenter for Best Documentary Short Film. While only there briefly he wound up being one of the highlights of the evening, with an introduction that simultaneously honored and poked fun at the nominees…

The brand of comedy that Portlandia practices means that it’s a show constantly at risk of being too annoying. It mines the majority of its humor out of people who are frequently selfish, hypocritical, short-sighted, or willfully ignorant, meaning that it’s built a large stable of characters who most sane people…

In a recent interview with Vulture about his various comedy projects, Jonathan Krisel credited the bulk of Portlandia’s success to the way it emphasizes character over sketch premise. “We love our characters and we always want to know more about them,” he said. “Always searching for the new ‘Put a Bird on It’ is so…

After three narratively driven episodes to kick off season six, “Weirdos Beach” returns Portlandia to its sketch roots. No grand exploration of growing up or anthropological study of the music festival experience, instead it’s a loose collection of takes on various music and car-related topics. While the former…