The Lonely Island

It is time to talk about The Lonely Island. The Lonely Island is an American comedy troupe. There are three members in it. They are Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg. They are best known as their comedic music. The group was from Berkeley, California. But the group is currently based in New York City. When Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone were in junior high school, they began to create live comedy skits. This thing expanded to comedic shorts, music parody and one full-length television pilot. Jimmy Fallon was impressed with the group’s materials. He bought the trio to the attention of Loren Michaels. Loren Michaels is the producer of Sunday Night Live. He agreed to see them. They performed standard comedy in his free time. He was called back for a second audition a few weeks later. Schaffer and Taccone were invited to join the writing staff based on their work in the trio. The group borrowed a camera and filmed a faux lettuce commercial starting Samberg and fellow SNL cast member Will Forte. They presented the film to Michaels in Deecember 2005. He liked it and agreed to air it. They called it Saturday night Live’s Digital Shorts. The second short, enjoyed runaway success in virtual media. The fans responded with t-shirts and responded videos. The name of the second short was Lazy Night. Many of their shorts have skyrocketed to internet fame. Natalie’s Rap with Natalie Portman, Iran So Far with Adam Levine, Jizz in My Pants, Shy Ronnie with Rihanna and I am on A Boat with T-Pain got huge success. Some of those were nominated for Grammy Awards. A song of the group won the 2007 Creative Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. The name of the song was “Dick in A Box”. This song was performed with Justin Timberlake. Samberg and Justin Timberlake made a sequel to “Dick in A Box”. The name of the sequel song was “Motherlover”. This song was aired on May 9, 2009. The group released many songs in 2009 and 2010. They debuted their new song in 2013. The name of the song is “YOLO”. This is featured with Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar. Before they started selling their songs on iTunes, they called themselves “Incredibad”. The groups first album released on February 10, 2009. Thet name of the album was Incredibad. The album was released by Universal Republic Records. In 2010 The Lonely Island announced an upcoming album on their YouTube channel. The group released a song featuring Akon on December 18, 2010. This was the first single of the album and the name of the song was “I Just Had Sex”. On January 29, 2011, the group released a single with Nicki Minaj. The name of the song was “The Creep”. The lonely Island appeared as a guest on Late Night with Kimmy Fallon, on April 1, 2011. They performed “We’re Back!” there. After releasing the song named “YOLO” on iTunes they announced that a new album is coming in 2013. They called the album “Wack Wednesdays”.