Before the performance, there was a disclaimer asking audience members not to share audio, video, or general information about the bits and bobbles that make up their set so as not to "spoil" the experience for future concertgoers, and their publicist made a similar request prior to the writing of this review.
On a level, I understand the desire for mass reticence; these shows have been largely well-attended, but the attention economy is more competitive than ever, and the notion of an experience that's meant to be enjoyed as mass spectacle being consumed through Instagram snippets and pithy Tweets is certainly a concern for those responsible for crafting said mass spectacle.
But hand wringing about spoiler culture also seems antithetical to the Lonely Island's "thing" — a comedic approach that relies on repetitiveness in that the third, fourth, or fifth time they repeat a bit, it only becomes funnier even if they haven't changed a single element about the bit itself throughout the process. Sometimes they employ this approach through escalation, as on "Jack Sparrow," in which every heaven-sent chorus sung by Michael Bolton becomes more knowingly ridiculous in its muddled pop-cultural references; at Pier 17, they applied it to a running and location-specific gag that had me and many others in tears by the fifth or sixth time they revisited it.
Want to know what it was? Guess you're going to have to catch them for yourself — and it's worth doing so, too. Music Style Culture Video. Twitter facebook youtube instagram. By Larry Fitzmaurice. Kanye West calls on Drake to end beef. The Lonely Island disrupted the distribution and aesthetic of filmed comedy. Comedy is all about timing. YouTube officially launched on December 15, The site and the group have been irrevocably linked ever since.
By , the cast featured an incredible 11 cast members who had improv backgrounds. One of the few exceptions: Andy Samberg, who years earlier had suffered through a disastrous Groundlings audition.
In , after graduating from different colleges, they all moved to Los Angeles, living together in an apartment they named the Lonely Island after a faux- pretentious one-act play Schaffer wrote to make fun of Taccone. After five years of shooting sketches and posting them online, they had shot a sketch pilot for Fox called Awesometown that went nowhere.
Samberg was the only one who got the gig. Schaffer never auditioned; Michaels passed on Taccone. After the boss watched some of those, he hired Taccone and Schaffer as writers on the show. Halfway into their first season, they hit their breaking point, in the form of a failed pitch in which Samberg was to play a little boy who simply wants to wear shorts at night.
But the rejection made them think that live sketches were not the best medium for their ideas. It played well enough that they got to do another one. At the time, the Lonely Island had never heard of YouTube. What makes this premise work is exactly when Samberg pops in.
The humor is solely in the rhythm of the editing, a rhythm that quickly became the basic pulse of online comedy. Put your junk in the box. Samberg : It combined with a lot of realizations about stuff we grew up on. We had discussions about Revenge of the Nerds and all these movies that we grew up on that seemed really harmless and goofy. How were we shown this as children? Schaffer : The main joke of it is, why did we make it? Then the more you make of it, the funnier the joke.
Samberg : We kept coming back to the idea of the long-form video, which had this huge resurgence. It just felt like the moment to do it that way. As is our proclivity, we like dressing up our turds as fancy as possible. In my review of your first official show, I wrote about how I was nervous as a fan of yours. It felt like a real tightrope you had to walk. In putting together that Clusterfest show, what kinds of things did you need to figure out in order to make it work?
Samberg : Doing live shows in the context of a comedy festival helps us a lot because, first and foremost, it is a comedy show. The odds are that most people coming have heard a lot of the songs, so we need to think of ways outside of the songs to keep it entertaining and funny. We found a balance that we were very happy with at that show.
Samberg : We are the top frappers in the game. We want to get that term a little more ubiquitous. Schaffer : It could really catch on, then people could use it against real rappers and call them frappers.
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