Jorma Taccone

Yes, indeed, folks.

[lip smacks] Today's film is Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping, a 2016 American mockumentary film directed by Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone from a screenplay written by and starring Andy Samberg, Taccone, and Schaffer.

Um, I have a very bare bones summary of this.

Our friend Aaron Grossman, uh, on Blue Sky at RB Plays, and lurking on Twitter at, uh, RB Plays as well.

Uh, I, I think you're, w- you're onto so- with regards to, like, the, the sweetness and, like, everything, uh, kinda coming back to, to the power of friendship.

There is a, an overall display of understanding by, by Samberg and friends.

Uh, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone.

In my head it was always Taccone, but I believe the pronunciation-

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[upbeat medieval music] Long ago, there were three young men named Andy, Akiva, and Jorm.

They came from the bay, saw each other, said, "Hey," and The Lonely Island was born.

They made their shorts and they chased their whale, through SNL, found the Holy Grail.

And thus, we recount the inspiring tale of Andy, Akiva, and Jorm.

Even longer ago, there was Seth Lee Myers, born in Evanston, IL.

I was also born, there was, too.

Seth went to school and got his improv on.

He did mention The Lonely Island, and I love those guys, and I'm sure people have heard many of their songs on Saturday Night Live.

But if you haven't heard of them, they're a comedy trio with Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer, and they've got a lot of, like, hip hop stuff that is just over the top.

[laughs] I listened to a bunch of different songs.

I've got three of their albums.

The mo- like, Mama Bear's played by Dot-Marie Jones.

The bartender is Dean Sharp, and then we have, like, really fun, like, impressions of celebrities, like Jorma Taccone is- plays Pee-wee Herman, um, Lonely Island group, Popstar, Hot Rod.

Tiny Tim is played by Dmitri Martin, which I think is really fun 'cause I loved Important Things with Dmitri Martin.

But I also didn't know he voiced, uh, like, one of the main characters in We Bare Bears, and that's fun.

[laughs] Yes.

And then they do a really weird bit that kinda doesn't fully land, where Al is like, "I'm gonna call the number." And he calls the number, and somehow it's Jorma's phone.

Yeah, it's Jorma's phone.

And Jorma's pretending to be Jenny, but it's like you can clearly hear the phone.

[laughs]

Yeah, it's not-

part.

Long ago there were three young men named Andy, Akiva, and Yhorm.

They came from the bay, saw each other, said hey, and the Lonely Island was born.

They made their shorts and they chased their whale through SNL, found the Holy Grail, and thus we recount the inspiring tale of Andy, Akiva, and Yhorm.

Even longer ago, there was Seth Lee Myers, born in Evanston Hill.

I was also born there, which I think is cool.

... and, and got it to a place that was fun.

We attached, uh, Jorma, uh, from Lonely Island to, uh, direct it, and, um, and then we're pushing in a genre that I, I know and I can say I, I'm not as skilled in this genre as all the other ones.

So we hired someone who's very skilled in that genre to kind of do a pass on it, a little rewrite pass on it, to kinda help it blend into that genre a little bit more.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

I only know one of them, Jorma.

One of my-

Because of Kung Fury?

Yes

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Jorma Taccone-

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