Fred Armisen has landed a deli-ghtful role…
The 58-year-old half-Venezuelan American actor, comedian and former Saturday Night Live star, has joined the cast of Hulu’s Deli Boys for the show’s second season.
Armisen will join the series regular cast alongside Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh and Poorna Jagannathan.
Deli Boys follows Mir and Raj Dar (Ali and Shaikh), a pair of pampered Pakistani American brothers who lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba’s (Iqbal Theba) secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld.
Jagannathan stars as Naveeda “Lucky,” Baba’s confidant and a crime boss auntie.
Armisen will play a legendary gambling savant with an uncanny ability to read people like cards in the half-hour series. His casino empire is global, but his crown jewel is in Philly. He is uniquely brilliant and deeply unhinged — a deadly combo if you cross him.
Deli Boys was created by Abdullah Saeed and developed by Jenni Konner and Nora Silver under Jenni Konner Productions.
Michelle Nader will return as showrunner and executive producer of Season 2. She will EP alongside Saeed, Konner, and Silver. Nisha Ganatra served as executive producer and director of the pilot.
20th Television produces the comedy series.
Armisen most recently reprised the role of Uncle Fester in Season 2 of Netflix’s Wednesday, starring opposite Jenna Ortega. In May, he concluded his time voicing Elliot Birch in the eighth and final season of Netflix’s Big Mouth.
Armisen is perhaps best known for his 11 seasons on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, as co-creator and co-star of IFC’s Portlandia, and co-writer, co-star, and EP of HBO’s Spanish-Language series Los Espookys.
On the film side, he recently voiced a character in The Super Mario Bros. Movie and starred in Judd Apatow’s The Bubble.
He’s currently touring “Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome” and just wrapped his Broadway debut in All In: Comedy About Love.
