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The Best of Justin Timberlake on Saturday Night Live
Easily one of Saturday Night Live’s all-time greatest guests, Justin Timberlake made a whopping 13 appearances on the show over...
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Posted Monday 3/22/21 at 11:14PM EDT
CBS developing a Black Girl Magic-themed comedy from The Lonely Island
Former Mindy Project writer Meredith Dawson is teaming with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone on Black Magic, a...
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How Natalie Portman’s SNL Rap Changed Everything
It was fifteen years ago this week that Natalie Portman busted out an over-the-top, profanely aggressive rap in an SNL...
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Posted Wednesday 5/06/20 at 3:50AM EDT
What is Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek" doing in Normal People?
It's been nearly 15 years since Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek" was famously used in The O.
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Posted Thursday 4/09/20 at 3:14PM EDT
Justin Timberlake: FCC tried to halt SNL's "D*ck in a Box"
Timberlake said on the Hot Ones YouTube show that the FCC got wind of The Lonely Island's 2006 Emmy-winning digital...
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Posted Sunday 8/18/19 at 9:35PM EDT
SNL two-time Emmy winner Katreese Barnes dies: She was honored for helping write "D*ck in the Box"
Barnes, 56, was a "musical force behind the scenes," according to The New York Times.
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Posted Thursday 5/23/19 at 1:52PM EDT
The Lonely Island drops "visual poem" in tribute to Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire featuring SNL and Brooklyn Nine-Nine stars
Andy Samberg plays Canseco and Akiva Schaffer plays McGwire in The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience, a Netflix Beyoncé-style visual album...
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Posted Wednesday 5/22/19 at 1:42PM EDT
The Lonely Island is dropping a "visual poem" tonight at midnight on Netflix
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone just announced a new mystery project, A Lonely Island Visual Poem, coming out...
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Posted Wednesday 2/20/19 at 12:57PM EST
The Lonely Island are going on their first-ever tour
SNL alums Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone are planning to visit seven cities in June.
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Posted Friday 2/08/19 at 4:10PM EST
A MacGruber TV series is being shopped
Jorma Taccone tells The Daily Beast he and his fellow The Lonely Island members have been pitching a potential TV...
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Posted Friday 1/18/19 at 2:14PM EST
Watch two women play 13-year-old girls in the trailer for Hulu's Pen15
Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle play 13-year-old versions of themselves in the year 2000 in The Lonely Island-produced comedy with...
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Posted Saturday 12/15/18 at 12:22AM EST
SNL hasn't recovered from losing The Lonely Island: Recent music video parodies are unfunny bad songs
"The influence of the Lonely Island on SNL remains indelible" since the departure of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva...
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Posted Friday 11/02/18 at 10:48PM EDT
Freeform cancels Alone Together after two low-rated seasons
The Lonely Island-produced millennial misfits comedy had struggled with only 60,000 live same-day viewers.
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Posted Thursday 4/19/18 at 1:54PM EDT
Hulu's PEN15 will have two 30-somethings play 13-year-old versions of themselves
Hulu has given a straight-to-series order for The Lonely Island-produced PEN15 -- as in "penis" -- starring adults Maya Erskine...
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Why ABC shouldn't be too worried about the worst-ever Oscar ratings
Sure, the Oscar ratings freefall looks bad, particularly with early numbers predicting that viewership will fall below 30 million for...