BEST OF WIO: Jorma Taccone

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Jorma Taccone: The Lonely Island's Comedy Revolution (Recorded March 2023) 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 three hundred and thirty eight million views on
0:03.8	YouTube. How many of those do you think have had sex?
0:07.7	It's become more of a thing on TikTok. Like people play it in their cars like
0:12.3	as their friend leaves somebody's house on like the walk of shame. So I think
0:16.3	a lot of people do. Yeah. A lot of people probably have just had sex. I wonder
0:21.2	but I don't agree with that. Okay. Let's see until marriage. Guys let's keep it
0:27.2	locked. That is the voice of the great Yorma Takone. We are rerunning this
0:37.7	episode from earlier this year. Just so you know the reason we re air the
0:42.5	episodes we re air is because overwhelmingly there's something about the
0:48.8	episode where people really attach to it. In this case it is that that those
0:54.4	lonely island folks, Andy Sandberg and Akiva Schaefer and Yorma Takone. They
1:00.5	really sort of invented a form and they did it like very grassroots. They made
1:04.1	these comedy videos. They got an SNL and then they brought the comedy videos on
1:09.1	SNL and it became like a massive phenomenon and a lot of ways spawned many
1:14.5	other imitators who are actually also very good. A lot of them. So we have this
1:21.1	great great chat today. Before we begin I want to tell you I've officially
1:26.6	announced my tour for my own new show which is called Please Stop the Ride. You
1:31.4	already know about this show in Boston. I'm doing eight shows in Boston at the
1:35.8	Wilbur and then I go all over the country. I will be in Big Sky, Vancouver, Seattle,
1:42.3	Walla Walla, Portland, Oregon, St. Petersburg, Florida, Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami,
1:47.8	Beaver Creek, Aspen, Fort Collins, Denver, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Troy,
1:54.7	Rochester, Toronto, Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, and Washington, DC. That is a lot
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