This coming weekend, The Lonely Island will perform at the San Francisco comedy festival Clusterfest in what they’re billing as their “first concert ever.” But, before that, they’ve got to do what any musician worth their salt does before a big show—they’ve got to warm up. That’s exactly what they were doing Sunday…
Shortly after this year’s Oscars, The Lonely Island shared a song they wrote for the ceremony that paid tribute to the super-successful blockbusters, like Thor: Ragnarok and The Fate Of The Furious, that are typically overlooked by the Academy. The original tweet said that the track was an overly ambitious, expensive,…
Comedy Central’s Clusterfest tends to have a loose theme based around one of its headliners, with last year’s festival featuring Jerry Seinfeld on stage and Seinfeld-themed “comedy attractions” off the stage. This year is going a bit weirder with it, at least based off of the fest’s announcement video which announces…
With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD, it gets harder and harder to keep up with recent shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic or modern. They might not be the 10 best episodes, but they’re the 10…
A wry comedian and writer whose Twitter account is the source of internet glee and corporate ire, Joe Mande is a bit of a jack-of-all-trades for 2017. He’s written on shows like Parks And Recreation and The Good Place; put out a stand-up album, Bitchface; and is releasing his first Netflix special, Joe Mande’s…
Seth Rogen and The Lonely Island have been working together on a film that has now been retroactively ripped from the internet headlines, apparently, courtesy of this weekend’s disastrous Fyre Fest. Per The Hollywood Reporter, both Rogen and the comedy musical group tweeted out last night that they’ve been working for…
The Oscars may have come and gone—some even slipping right out of a recipient’s grasp—but that doesn’t mean awards season is over. We mean, it mostly is, but there are certainly other accolades to be distributed, other cinematic achievements to be lauded. Take the All Def Movie Awards, a Russell Simmons creation,…
Despite the title, it’s not a good idea to cue up Michael Bolton’s Big, Sexy Valentine’s Day Special with a special someone in hopes that viewing it will lead to fornication. By the time you get to Fred Armisen performing an ultrasound on a piece of chocolate your libido will be dead, but at least you’ll be laughing…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, February 7. All times are Eastern.
Better sell that Pfizer stock while you can, because Viagra futures are about to take a tumble as the artist formerly known as Michael Bolotin is about to Make America Horny Again by thrusting his thick, husky vocals deep into Netflix subscribers’ ear holes. He’s doing so with a little help from Comedy Bang! Bang!’s…
As reported by Deadline, Freeform has given a series order to Alone Together, the single-camera sitcom executive produced by the The Lonely Island boys—a.k.a Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. The show stars Lady Dynamite’s Esther Povitsky and Not Safe With Nikki Glaser’s Benji Afalo as a pair of…
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Things didn’t work out especially well the last time The Lonely Island boys produced a TV show, but that’s not going to stop them from trying again. According to Variety, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer are going to be producing a new comedy series from comedian Chris Garcia through their Party Over…
Fox’s female-centric sketch comedy show Party Over Here is coming to an end after just one season, IndieWire reports. The show’s initial run of 10 episodes—which starred seasoned UCB veterans Nicole Byer, Jessica McKenna, and Alison Rich—ran late nights on Saturdays from March through May, and never managed to build…
Back in April, we reported that Freeform was developing a sitcom called Alone Together from Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Tacone—better known as goofsters behind The Lonely Island. As we said at the time, the show is about a “platonic pairing” between a man and a woman who try to make it in Los Angeles. In…
The cast and crew of Comedy Bang! Bang! go a little mad (we all go a little mad sometimes) creating “Tegan And Sara Wear Leather Jackets And Skinny Jeans,” and I love it to death. From performances and direction (by frequent Comedy Bang! Bang! director Stoney Sharp) to graphics, music, props, and lighting, everything…
Saturday Night Live veteran Andy Samberg has been doing a lot of press lately for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, his new film with the comedy-music team The Lonely Island. So when Outside contacted him with an offer to do some bird-watching at California’s Franklin Canyon Park, he had only two words: “Fuck yeah.”…
Softie alert: “The Lonely Island Wear Dark Pants And Eyeglasses” might as well have been custom-engineered in a lab just for me. I love The Lonely Island. I love “Oh, Hello.” I love robot jokes. I love a good font joke almost as I love a dumb Annie Hall joke. And, of course, I love Scott Aukerman and “Weird Al”…
The Lonely Island is online. This September will mark the 15-year anniversary of the first time the comedy group made up of (now) Hollywood heavy-hitters Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone hit upload and started its ascent.
No music mockumentary has really managed to reproduce This Is Spinal Tap’s comic mojo, but Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping gets closer than most to that subgenre-defining comedy’s mix of the dead-on and the over-the-top, even if it tends to go for quantity over quality. Part of that is format: Junky,…
