Akiva Schaffer
The Lonely Island Explain Joanna Newsom's "Fucking Fantastic" Contribution to "Ras Trent"
PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2025
It's been a decade since Joanna Newsom's last album, 2015's 'Divers,' but if you're dying for new of her mystical harp folk, here's one of...
The Lonely Island on Their Most "Humiliating" Song: "It's a Dud"
PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2024
The Lonely Island just made a podcast episode about "Daiquiri Girl," the intentionally terrible song they're "shocked" ever aired on TV...
The Lonely Island Reflect on the Terrible Digital Short They "Definitely Thought Was Not Gonna Air"
PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2024
The Lonely Island made lots of classic Digital Shorts in their years on 'Saturday Night Live,' from "Dick in a Box" to "Dear Sister"...
Andy Samberg Stayed on 'SNL' Just to Work with Charli XCX
PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2024
Andy Samberg has been a regular on the latest season of 'Saturday Night Live,' playing Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff — but with Harris...
'Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers' Is a Perfect Reboot
Directed by Akiva Schaffer
PUBLISHED May 22, 2022
Does anyone actually want a Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers reboot? No, of course not — and to this film's immense credit, it knows it. A self...
Exclaim! Screenjams Presents 'Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Quote-Along)'
PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2020
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is the ultimate satire about the hardships of being a boyband member turned solo artist. Written by an...
The Lonely Island Just Released an '80s Baseball Rap Album
PUBLISHED May 23, 2019
After teasing the arrival of a "visual poem" on Netflix, we now know what the Lonely Island have in store for us. It's a project called The...
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Directed by Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer
PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2016
There have been plenty of movies about the rise and fall of musicians. What sets the Lonely Island's Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping apa...
