Remember How Everybody Was in Portlandia?
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TV Portland was filled with so many famous people. Of the many, many things Portlandia did or didn’t do for/to/in the city (January 21 marks the 15-year anniversary of its premiere, and we’re talking about all that over here), one thing that’s not up for debate is the truly wild number of punk heroes, MTV hosts, former Olympians, movie stars, and rock stars it brought to town. There was Jack White’s wordless appearance, where he glows like a garage rock Father Christmas. Kyle MacLachlan of course played the mayor. No Doubt silently waved from a hot-air balloon at one point. Remember customer support superhero Kumail Nanjiani? A sketch filmed at the Ace Hotel, despite cooking up a marvelous wormhole of commodified 2010s cool, is the peak of these star-studded bits that seem to go absolutely nowhere on purpose. The show’s stars and cocreators, Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, play desk clerks at “the Deuce Hotel.” When James Mercer (The Shins), Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), and Corin Tucker (Brownstein’s Sleater-Kinney bandmate) check in, the desk clerks destroy the lobby to, um, I think it was about proving that they're cool. The point is these people are famous, people! Below, we drudged up all the cameos we could find.
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Tunde Advebimpe (of TV on the Radio)
Shohreh Aghdashloo
LaMarcus Aldridge
Tuck Andress (of Tuck & Patti)
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B
The B-52’s
Maria Bamford
Lance Bangs
Vanessa Bayer
Roseanne Barr
Ed Begley Jr.
Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys)
Selma Blair
Rachel Bloom
Isaac Brock (of Modest Mouse)
Steve Buscemi
Rose Byrne
C
James Callis
Brendan Canty (of Fugazi)
Louis C.K.
Annie Clark (of St. Vincent)
Jenny Conlee (of the Decemberists)
Kevin Corrigan
Wayne Coyne (of the Flaming Lips)
Terry Crews
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D
Claire Danes
Glenn Danzig
The Dirty Projectors
Rachel Dratch
Steven Drozd (of the Flaming Lips)
Kirsten Dunst
E
John Early
F
Ana Fabrega
Shepard Fairey
Bobby Flay
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G
Jim Gaffigan
Greta Gerwig
Jeff Goldblum
Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth)
Heather Graham
Dan Gregor
Judy Greer
H
Bill Hader
Ryan Hansen
Sean Hayes
Tim Heidecker
Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age)
Mitchell Hurwitz
J
Abbi Jacobson
Cherry Jones
Rashida Jones
Steve Jones (of the Sex Pistols)
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K
Zoë Kravitz
Nick Kroll
L
Juliette Lewis
Kurt Loder
Justin Long
Robin Lopez
Greg Louganis
Matt Lucas
Jane Lynch
Natasha Lyonne
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M
Aimee Mann
Johnny Marr (of the Smiths)
J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.)
Edie McClurg
C. J. McCollum
Sarah McLachlan
Duff McKagan (of Guns N’ Roses)
Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists)
James Mercer (of the Shins)
Laurie Metcalf
Lorne Michaels
Bobby Moynihan
John Mulaney
Seth Meyers
N
Kumail Nanjiani
Martina Navratilova
Michael Nesmith (of the Monkees)
Joanna Newsom
Brigitte Nielsen
No Doubt
Krist Novoselic (of Nirvana)
O
Patton Oswalt
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P
Robin Pecknold (of Fleet Foxes)
Jay Pharoah
Matt Pinfield
Aubrey Plaza
Parker Posey
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R
Linda Ramone
Andy Richter
Tracee Ellis Ross
Tim Robbins
Henry Rollins (of Black Flag)
Maya Rudolph
Run the Jewels
Cameron Russell
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Andy Samberg
Dan Savage
Chloë Sevigny
Alia Shakwat
Paul Simon
Robert Smigel
Tabitha Soren
Caroll Spinney
Jessica St. Clair
Jason Sudeikis
Nick Swardson
T
Amber Tamblyn
Tessa Thompson
Corin Tucker (of Sleater-Kinney)
Jeff Tweedy (of Wilco)
V
Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam)
Kurt Vile
W
George Wendt
Jack White
Kristen Wiig
Olivia Wilde
