--- title: Fred Armisen to Guest Star on 'New Girl' description: The show recently wrapped production on season four canonical: https://time.com/3780210/fred-armisen-guest-star-new-girl/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-08T01:50:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:51:29.755Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Fred Armisen to Guest Star on 'New Girl' og:description: The show recently wrapped production on season four og:url: https://time.com/3780210/fred-armisen-guest-star-new-girl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fa84f5be2dc445c/6987992aa988ca66f46adb03/fred-armissen2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Fred Armisen arrives at the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 21, 2015, in Santa Monica, Calif. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fred Armisen to Guest Star on 'New Girl' twitter:description: The show recently wrapped production on season four twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fa84f5be2dc445c/6987992aa988ca66f46adb03/fred-armissen2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Fred Armisen to Guest Star on _New Girl_ by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Apr 8, 2015 1:50 AM UTC  Fred Armisen arrives at the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 21, 2015, in Santa Monica, Calif. Fred Armisen arrives at the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 21, 2015, in Santa Monica, Calif.Jordan Strauss—AP by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Apr 8, 2015 1:50 AM UTC [Damon Wayans Jr.’s departure](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/05/damon-wayans-jr-exit-new-girl) from _New Girl_ is sure to depress the gang, but that won’t stop them from taking full advantage of the loft’s new vacancy once he’s gone. EW has confirmed the Fox comedy will be bringing on guest stars Fred Armisen, Stephen Rannazzisi and Ally Maki for an episode during its [recently announced fifth season](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/31/new-girl-renewed). [_The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/new-girl-fred-armisen-stephen-786982) first announced the casting. In the episode, Nick (Jake Johnson) and Schmidt (Max Greenfield) will be turning the loft into a designated Airbnb spot and hosting Armisen (_Portlandia_) as a boarder, with Maki (_Wrecked_) renting Nick’s room. Rannazzisi (_The League_) will show up as a frenemy of Schmidt and Nick’s from college. This casting news follows the announcement that [Anna George will be playing Cece’s (Hannah Simone) mother](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/01/new-girl-casts-anna-george-ceces-mother-season-5) during season five. _New Girl_ recently wrapped production on season four and has moved on to shooting for next season in order to accommodate for star Zooey Deschanel’s pregnancy. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/07/fred-armisen-guest-star-new-girl-airbnb-boarder) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3780210/fred-armisen-guest-star-new-girl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3780210/fred-armisen-guest-star-new-girl/"},"headline":"Fred Armisen to Guest Star on New Girl","datePublished":"2015-04-08T01:50:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:51:29.755Z","description":"The show recently wrapped production on season four","url":"https://time.com/3780210/fred-armisen-guest-star-new-girl/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fa84f5be2dc445c/6987992aa988ca66f46adb03/fred-armissen2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Entertainment Weekly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fa84f5be2dc445c/6987992aa988ca66f46adb03/fred-armissen2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fred Armisen arrives at the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 21, 2015, in Santa Monica, Calif.","caption":"Fred Armisen arrives at the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 21, 2015, in Santa Monica, Calif.","creditText":"Jordan Strauss—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3780210/fred-armisen-guest-star-new-girl/","name":"Fred Armisen to Guest Star on New Girl"}}]}] ```