Fred Armisen Tells Howard Stern About the Time He Met Prince Eating Mac ‘n’ Cheese
Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers reminisced about “Saturday Night Live” on “The Howard Stern Show.”
Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, and Fred Armisen
Fred Armisen parodied the late, great Prince for years on “Saturday Night Live.” So when the “Purple Rain” singer performed one night, the comedian decided to approach his idol.
“I’ve been doing Prince since high school,” Armisen told Howard Stern of his impersonation while promoting his series “Documentary Now!” with “SNL” alums Seth Meyers and Bill Hader.
“They had a little buffet of macaroni and cheese” at Prince’s special after-party that night, Armisen began.
“Wow,” Stern joked. “He really knew how to party.”
“I’m such a Prince fan, I really wanted to tell him this, and I wanted him, in my ego, to say something back nice, because he had just performed on the show,” Armisen continued. “So I walked up, he was sitting alone eating macaroni and cheese, and I was like — this is true, this is true! So I sort of carefully sat down. I was like, ‘Hey, I just wanted to tell you I think you are the greatest.’ And he said, ‘You know what I think the greatest is?’ And I was like, ‘What?’ He was like, ‘This macaroni and cheese.’”
Armisen added, “I had to walk away from the table alone backwards, because you know it’s almost a joke or not a joke, I couldn’t tell.”
