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 The Lonely Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lonely Island is a group of filmmakers, founded in 2001 by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg.
Their first project was a sitcom titled "The lonely island", containing two episodes: "White Power", in which three friends get addicted to tooth whitener; and "Regarding Ardy", where Andy breaks his little finger and Akiva and Jorm try to "find" him a new one.
The Lonely Island was hired by FOX to create their most recent pilot, Awesometown.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Lonely_Island   (749 words)

  
 Lonely Island Creative Commons
Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer are the members of The Lonely Island, an LA-based comedy collective, who have released much of their music and video shorts online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
Also known as "the dudes", Andy, Jorma and Akiva soon found that they were developing a fan base, some of whom were remixing their music, so they posted these remixes to their site as well.
The Lonely Island ("TLI"): We first started posting our comedy shorts, songs and music videos on the web in 2001.
creativecommons.org /video/lonelyisland   (589 words)

  
 YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Tags: lonely island andy samberg akiva schaffer jorma taccone snl
This is the official group for The Lonely Island and all things related to The Dudes.
Apr 30, 2006, 06:40 PM Inspired by the Lonely island
www.youtube.com /group/thelonelyisland   (163 words)

  
 From LA's Awesometown to New York City's SNL Creative Commons
Andy Samberg will be a cast member, with Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer as writers.
Tonight's episode of SNL is the season debut, featuring all three members of The Lonley Island as part of the show.
Wired News posted an article yesterday covering the story of LA-based comedy collective The Lonely Island.
creativecommons.org /weblog/entry/5645   (221 words)

  
 YouTube - Fighting Neighbors - The Lonely Island
From the Lonely Island featuring Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, and Chester Tam.
The Diary of Chez - The Lonely Island
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www.youtube.com /?v=1Tg0eRVpiF8   (138 words)

  
 Instant Notoriety for a Rap Video From Saturday Night Live - New York Times
Andy Samberg, left, a featured performer on "Saturday Night Live," with his friends Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, writers on the show.
But the short movies they posted on thelonelyisland.com - everything from cartoons assembled from clips of old Nintendo video games to satirical rap videos performed in the styles of their favorite hip-hop artists - also gave the three a place to develop their comic voices without the pressure of having to deliver professionally polished work.
Since it was originally broadcast on NBC, "Lazy Sunday" has been downloaded more than 1.2 million times from the video-sharing Web site YouTube.com; it has cracked the upper echelons of the video charts at NBC.com and the iTunes Music Store; and it has even inspired a line of T-shirts, available at Teetastic.com.
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 Welcome Creative Commons
Oct 2005 Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer are the members of The Lonely Island, an LA-based comedy collective, who have released much of their music and video shorts online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
He is the author of two books: "Owning Culture" and, most recently, "Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity".
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
creativecommons.org   (263 words)

  
 Boing Boing: "Creative commons comics" join Saturday Night Live cast
On SNL's forthcoming season, Andy Samberg (far right in photo above) will become a member of the new cast, while Jorma Taccone (far left) and Akiva Schaffer (to the immediate right of Jack Black in colonial drag) will support him as writers.
BoingBoing's Hollywood informant raises his nose mid-snort from a line of blow along a stripper's butt-crack to tell us that three Lonely Island-ers have been hired by NBC's Saturday Night Live.
Loyal Boing Boing readers may recall past posts about The Lonely Island, an LA-based collective of funnypersons who shot a pilot for FOX called Awesometown.
www.boingboing.net /2005/08/22/creative_commons_com.html   (266 words)

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