The Lonely Island

The Lonely Island composed of:

• Akiva Schaffer
• Jorma Taccone
• Andy Samberg

TLI is an American comedy group from Berkeley, California, and are currently based in New York City. The group began creating live comedy skits in junior high and continued to do so, expanding its repertoire to comedic shorts, music parody (both songs and videos), and one full-length television pilot, before coming to the attention of Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live (SNL). Once on the show, they wrote "Lazy Sunday" a better-produced music parody video much like the group's previous work. It became an instant Internet success, and led to the digital shorts the group produces, writes and stars in for Saturday Night Live. "Dick in a Box", "Jizz in My Pants", "Like a Boss" and "I'm on a Boat" have subsequently had huge success both on the show and on the Internet.

Hits:

1. Dick in a Box
   An Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live digital short featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg that aired on December 16, 2006. Following its debut on network television, the sketch became an example of viral video after massive exposure on sites such as YouTube. After being notified of his Emmy win, Timberlake performed the song at his concert at the Tacoma Dome in Washington.
2. Like a Boss
   The song is a parody of the first official single from Slim Thug's first album Already Platinum, also named 'Like a Boss'. Premiered as an SNL digital short on April 4th, 2009. The video features Seth Rogen, recording over the vocals done by Akiva Schaffer on the single. In the song, Andy Samberg is a businessman having a performance review. Samberg is asked to describe the things he does in an average day, and does so for the remainder of the song in his trademark aggressive style while repeating the lyric "like a boss" after every activity, presumably to emphasize his professionalism or prowess at that particular activity
3. I'm on a Boat
   The third single off The Lonely Island's debut album Incredibad, and was also featured as a Saturday Night Live Digital Short.[1] This song features R&B singer T-Pain. The song is a parody of many rap video cliches. The music video reached number one on YouTube in February 2009 and was number one on the U.S. iTunes music video chart.
4. Jizz in My Pants
   An SNL Digital Short which aired on Saturday Night Live on December 6, 2008. It serves as the music video for the first single from The Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad. The video stars The Lonely Island members Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and briefly, Akiva Schaffer, and also features guest appearances by Molly Sims, Justin Timberlake, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. "Jizz in my Pants" has been viewed over 44 million times on YouTube.