94. Jorma Taccone: The Lonely Island’s Comedy Revolution

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Jorma Taccone are old friends and former next door neighbors. Jorma also just so happens to be an acclaimed screenwriter, director, actor, and member of the legendary comedy team “The Lonely Island” with Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. The Lonely Island made the Saturday Night Live classic digital shorts D*ck in a Box, Natalie Portman’s rap, Laser Cats, and literally a hundred others. One time Jorma even made Mike wear a wig to play a TMZ-type reporter in his film “Popstar." Jorma goes deep on the scrappy, DIY nature of the early Lonely Island SNL short films and how sometimes it’s better to show someone your absurd idea than to explain it to them.

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0:00.0	Your song I just had sex has 338 million views on YouTube.
0:04.6	How many of those do you think have had sex?
0:07.4	It's become more of a thing on TikTok.
0:10.4	Like people play it in their cars, like as their friend leaves somebody's house on the
0:14.6	like the walk of shame.
0:15.6	So I think so.
0:16.6	I really like people do.
0:17.6	Yeah.
0:18.6	A lot of people probably have just had sex.
0:20.6	I wonder, but I don't agree with that.
0:23.0	Okay.
0:24.0	Celebrity until marriage.
0:25.0	Guys, let's keep it locked.
0:28.0	That is the voice of the great Yoramata Kode.
0:36.4	Of course, from Long Island, they wrote sketches and performed sketches on SNL for years.
0:43.0	They sort of invented a form.
0:46.3	They were they were pying years of a certain type of form of short film that became massive.
0:52.3	I mean, these videos, they made, have hundreds of millions of views on YouTube.
0:57.8	I just had sex, which was just referenced Jack Sparrow through it on the ground.
1:04.2	Lazy Sunday, I'm on a boat.
1:07.6	The Natalie Portman rap song was just super famous and hilarious.
1:12.3	These three guys came from the Bay Area.
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