Akiva Schaffer — Writer
Episodes 1
Digital Short: Lazy Sunday
Parnell and Samberg rhyme about The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, cupcakes, Mr. Pibb, Red Vines, Matthew Perry, and a host of other products. The short became a viral video online. Music produced by Jorma Taccone.
Read MoreDigital Short: Natalie's Rap
Natalie Portman is interviewed about her life and responds with a rap proving she is a "badass bitch", poking fun at her clean and intellectual image. She slaps Seth Meyers and throws a chair at Parnell. Samberg appears as Flavor Flav. Music produced by Jorma Taccone and Asa Taccone, and mixed by Ben Lovett
Read MoreDigital Short: Doppleganger
Meyers, Forte, and Samberg are on a lunch break and start to notice that each one has a doppelgänger nearby. After Meyers and Forte say that a large bum (Horatio Sanz) is Samberg's doppelgänger, they kill the real Samberg in an evil twin scenario.
Read MoreDigital Short: Peyote
A distraught man (Samberg), pressed against the side of a building, threatens to jump to his death. A second man (Forte), using a bullhorn, tries to talk him out of it. After a bit of dialogue, it is revealed that the distraught man is safely on the ground and his friend is kneeling mere inches away from him. The short ends after it is revealed to be a commercial for peyote.
Peyote was written and filmed after Lettuce had aired, making it the second SNL Digital Short made by The Lonely Island. It was deemed "too similar" to Lettuce to be aired right away, however, so the group produced Lazy Sunday to showcase other aspects of their comedic range.
Read MoreDigital Short: Cubicle Fight
New office employee Gary (Bill Hader) gets into a fight to the death with incumbent cubicle holder Steve (episode host Dane Cook). Jason Sudeikis appears as the boss and Andy Samberg, Will Forte, Fred Armisen, Kenan Thompson, Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig are other employees cheering on the fight.
Read MoreDigital Short: Harpoon Man
Harpoon Man (John C. Reilly), a suave action hero and parody of Shaft, tracks down an insulting announcer dressed as a whale (Samberg), who is narrating his life in a theme song. There are appearances by Jorma Taccone, who plays a man getting robbed, and Bill Hader, who plays the man robbing Taccone.
Read MoreDigital Short: Dick in a Box
A Christmas song about two men (Justin Timberlake and Samberg) giving their lovers (Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph) a box with their genitalia inside as presents, in a style reminiscent of early 1990s R&B sex ballads made popular by acts such as Bel Biv Devoe, Color Me Badd, and R. Kelly.
Won a 2007 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Music and Lyrics. Music created in part by Asa Taccone, Jorma Taccone and Katreese Barnes. It was the first official single from The Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad.
Read MoreDigital Short: Laser Cats! 2
In the same frame-story format, Hader and Samberg apologize to Lorne Michaels for the original Laser Cats! claiming to understand where they went wrong: not enough politics. They then introduce Laser Cats! 2, based on the same premise, now set in the Iraq War which has gone nuclear and caused the feline mutations. This time, Dr. Scientist (Jake Gyllenhaal) has stolen the cure that turns Laser Cats back into regular cats. Jorma Taccone appears in the opening credits for Laser Cats! 2 (Which is the same as Laser Cats!), and Fred Armisen and Amy Poehler are the scientists who created the cure.
Read MoreDigital Short: Nurse Nancy
Scott Garbaciak (Samberg) is the multi-role star in a commercial for the fictional film Nurse Nancy, in parody of Eddie Murphy films such as Norbit and The Nutty Professor.
Read MoreDigital Short: Andy Popping into Frame
Samberg quietly pops into view as the camera routinely cuts to different locations and landmarks. Forte begins doing the same, before being forced out by Samberg at gunpoint.
Samberg wears his "Andy" shirt from the failed sketch show Awesometown created by The Lonely Island.
Read MoreDigital Short: United Way
Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning takes time out to be a mentor to kids, but ends up being physically, mentally, and verbally abusive to them (a parody of his public service announcements for the United Way during 2001–05).
Read MoreDigital Short: The Shooting (aka Dear Sister)
In a spoof of The O.C. episode "The Dearly Beloved", a man (Hader) writes a letter to his sister, he is shot by his friend (Samberg), leading to a series of overly dramatic, slow-motion shootings set to "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, including their roommate (Shia LaBeouf), the sister (Wiig), and two police officers (Sudeikis, Armisen).
Read MoreDigital Short: Talking Dog
While meeting the owner of an apartment (Zach Braff) that is available for sublet, a potential candidate (Samberg) is shocked to find out that the owner's dog (voiced by Taccone) not only can talk, but has fallen in love with him. He finds out later that the dog was using him to get a plate of ham. The owner implies that this happens regularly, but the dog convinces the man that it's still something more, and the man ends up French kissing the dog.
Read MoreDigital Short: Iran So Far
Samberg sings a love song for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Armisen), along with Adam Levine from Maroon 5, sampling "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin, with a chorus based on the 1982 A Flock of Seagulls hit "I Ran (So Far Away)". Jake Gyllenhaal has a cameo, owing to the observation that Ahmadinejad looks like "a very hairy Jake Gyllenhaal".
Read MoreDigital Short: Brian Diaries
Brian Williams describes his daily routine, which includes watching footage of himself, meditating while the disembodied head of Bono praises him, and dropping pennies out a window onto Al Roker and Matt Lauer during The Today Show.
Read MoreDigital Short: Grandkids in the Movies
An old man presents films which have his grandsons (Hader and Samberg) digitally inserted in order to help old people be more comfortable with today's films. Features clips from the films No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Juno, Transformers (referred to as "The Transforming Robots"), and There Will Be Blood.
Read MoreDigital Short: The Mirror
A girl (Ellen Page) wakes up from a nightmare and begins seeing a zombie (Samberg) in her bathroom mirror, which turns out to be the nightmare of the zombie, a wolf man (Forte), and a woman named Debbie (Wiig) who is married to Dracula (Sudeikis). After several nightmares, the camera returns to Page waking up from a nightmare, and as the short ends, the zombie pops up at her bedside.
Read MoreDigital Short: Hero Song
An apparently wealthy man (Samberg) sings about crime infecting the city, then turns into a superhero (à la Batman) and tries to save a woman (Amy Adams) from being mugged, only to have the mugger (Sudeikis) beat him to death.
Read MoreDigital Short: Andy's Dad
Episode host Jonah Hill confesses to Samberg that he has fallen in love with his father, Ben Samberg (played by longtime SNL writer Jim Downey). Hader also confesses the same thing.
Read MoreDigital Short: Laser Cats! 3D
Samberg and Hader interrupt Lorne Michaels' dinner with Christopher Dodd to attempt to pitch Laser Cats! again, this time with a scene enhanced by 3D glasses. The plot revolves around a ban on all laser cats and a battle against the corrupt Mayor Top-Hat.
Read MoreDigital Short: Daiquiri Girl
Samberg appears in an amateur, early-90s music video about a girl who loves to drink daiquiris. Meanwhile, text scrolls up the screen explaining that the producers apologize for airing the video because a certain musical guest failed to appear for the shooting of a digital short, despite an agreement to do otherwise.
Read MoreDigital Short: Best Look in the World
Samberg and host Shia LaBeouf sing a high-energy country song for an infomercial about Samberg's new dress shirt, black socks, no pants look (the best look in the world). Armisen, Forte, Thompson, Sudeikis, and Hader all appear as people following the trend (a dad, a husband, two cops, and an illiterate genie).
Read MoreDigital Short: Space Olympics
Samberg, dressed in a white pompadour wig and spangled jumpsuit, sings a song promoting a low-budget, ill-planned, ultimately doomed athletic competition held in space in the year 3022.
Read MoreDigital Short: Hey! (Murray Hill)
A young man is talked to by a girl. Some small talk is made, until the subject of his small "ding-dong" comes up. Then another girl comes up to him and tells him she has a small "ding-dong", too.
Read MoreDigital Short: Extreme Activities Challenge
Samberg and Wiig compete in nonsensical activities, from arm wrestling to human ATM. Forte is the pathetic referee, Thompson is an ATM customer, and Anne Hathaway appears when Samberg wins the "become Jane" (Austen) challenge.
Read MoreDigital Short: Ras Trent
A college student legalist has converted to Rastafarianism and sings boastfully (and stereotypically) about the culture, while being aware that he's not fit for it when he walks by a group of actual Rastas.
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Jon Hamm/Coldplay is the sixth episode of the thirty-fourth season of Saturday Night Live. It originally aired on October 25, 2008.
Read MoreDigital Short: Everyone's A Critic
In a clip from Paul Rudd's new movie, Samberg romantically paints him nude and then Rudd returns the favor. While selling the painting at an auction, it is shown to be so graphic that everyone who sees it begins convulsing violently, vomiting, bleeding from the eyes, and committing violent acts of suicide.
Read MoreDigital Short: Jizz in my Pants
Samberg and Taccone rap about their personal experiences with premature ejaculation, often at the slightest provocation.
Read MoreDigital Short: Doogie Howser Theme
Neil Patrick Harris and the entire SNL cast perform the theme to Doogie Howser.
Read MoreDigital Short: A Couple of Homies
Samberg and Fred Armisen casually talk in a break room while Forte sings about every little thing that they're doing.
Read MoreDigital Short: Laser Cats! 4 Ever
Steve Martin walks into the office of Lorne Michaels and asks if he could air a short video that he and "some film people" made, which turns out to be yet another installment of Laser Cats!.
Read MoreDigital Short: I'm on a Boat
Samberg wins a prize from a cereal box for a boat trip for three people and selects Schaffer and, to Taccone's surprise and dismay, T-Pain to join him.
Read MoreDigital Short: Property of the Queen
Samberg blackmails the Jonas Brothers with a videotape of them as an '80s band called Property of the Queen.
Read MoreDigital Short: Party Guys
Samberg and Hader are at a party where everyone and everything is a literal representation of a slang term.
Read MoreDigital Short: Like A Boss
During a performance review conducted by Seth Rogen, Samberg raps about his typical day as the boss of a large company.
Read MoreDigital Short: Motherlover
Five months after the events of Dick in a Box, Samberg and Timberlake's characters sing about special gifts for Mother's Day.
Read MoreDigital Short: Megan's Roommate
Andy Samberg is brought home by Megan Fox, and meets her hostile roommate Optimus Prime, a man wearing a bathing robe and a mask of the Transformers character.
Read MoreDigital Short: Threw It On the Ground
A beatnik performs slam poetry about how he fights "the system" by throwing objects on the ground.
Read MoreDigital Short: Brenda & Shaun
A 1990s commercial for two amateur laser magicians.
Read MoreDigital Short: Firelight
A high school girl falls for Frankenstein's monster.
Read MoreDigital Short: Reba (Two Worlds Collide)
Andy Samberg sings a very raunchy techno/hip-hop ballad about his love Reba McEntire.
Read MoreDigital Short: Shy Ronnie
Rihanna and a redheaded nerd named Shy Ronnie perform an uplifting song for a classroom full of children, but the song is ruined by Shy Ronnie's weak singing (and bladder control).
Read MoreDigital Short: The Tizzie Wizzie Show (Jammy Shuffle)
James Franco guest stars on a children's show about wearing "jammies," and performs the Jammy Shuffle.
Read MoreDigital Short: Flags of the World
Samberg raps about the many different flags of the world.
Read MoreDigital Short: Boombox
A music video for the song Boombox.
Read MoreDigital Short: The Other Man
Kyle keeps knocking on his loved ones' doors to find that they are romantically involved with a man with a bizarre European accent.
Read MoreDigital Short: Cherry Battle
Gabourey Sidibe and Andy Samberg spit cherries at each other in rapid succession, catching the ones the other throws.
Read MoreDigital Short: Golden Girls Theme
Samberg shows Betty White how grateful the entire SNL cast is to have her host by having the cast and guest stars sing the theme song from The Golden Girls.
Read MoreDigital Short: Great Day
Unemployed cocaine addict Dennis goes on drug binge while singing an elaborately choreographed Disneyesque musical-theater number about how it is going to be a great day.
Read MoreDigital Short: Boogerman
Katy Perry sings at an Academy Awards-like ceremony the theme song from the fictional superhero film Boogerman.
Read MoreDigital Short: Rescue Dogs 3D App
A man tries to call 911 to report a home invasion on his iPhone using the app 911 Emergency, but is bombarded with ads for the movie Rescue Dogs 3D.
Read MoreDigital Short: Relaxation Therapy
A man is the subject of a bizarre therapy session conducted by his psychiatrist who inserts herself in his self-conscious images of peace and tranquility.
Read MoreDigital Short: I Broke My Arm
A girl sings in her school's cafeteria about breaking her arm by slipping on grape jelly.
Read MoreDigital Short: Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie & Clyde
Shy Ronnie and Clyde team up for a second time to rob a bank. Unfortunately, Ronnie's social awkwardness puts the heist in jeopardy and forces Clyde to do most of the work.
Read MoreDigital Short: What Was That?
Having won a competition, a Model United Nations team present their thoughts on world history to the General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York.
Read MoreDigital Short: I Just Had Sex
Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and rapper Akon celebrate just having had sex with women, despite the fact that the women found the sex to be mediocre.
Read MoreDigital Short: The Creep
The Lonely Island and Nicki Minaj pose as middle aged stalkers and rap about the latest dance craze.
Read MoreDigital Short: Laser Cats 6: The Musical!
Hader and Samberg again use a celebrity to pitch a new Laser Cats film to Lorne Michaels.
Read MoreDigital Short: Helen Mirren's Magic Bosom
Nasim wants to be inspired, so she finds Helen Mirren in her dressing room, where Pedrad dreams she is in "Helen Mirren's Titties", a place beyond space and time, and a sequence of shots involving happy things like two leaders shaking hands, flowers, etc.
Read MoreDigital Short: Jack Sparrow
Michael Bolton writes a hook for a new Lonely Island rap that features storylines from Pirates of the Caribbean, Forrest Gump, Erin Brockovich, and Scarface.
Read MoreDigital Short: 3 Way (The Golden Rule)
Two guys sing about how any sexual contact between them does not count as a homosexual act, as long as there is also a female involved.
Read MoreDigital Short: Wish It Would Rain
A depressed singer sings about how his girlfriend left him for another man.
Read MoreDigital Short: 100th Digital Short
The Lonely Island celebrate their 100th Digital Short by revisiting many digital short favorite characters, clips from previous Digital Shorts, and fresh footage from numerous celebrities.
Read MoreDigital Short: Lazy Sunday 2
Samberg and Parnell do another Lazy Sunday rap for Sister Act: The Musical.
Read MoreSaturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special
Saturday Night Live celebrates 40 years in a star-studded 3-and-a-half hour live special featuring appearances from former and current cast members, past hosts and guest stars.
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