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...enjoyed watching Natalie Portman spout a foul-mouthed, gender-bending rap and seeing Justin Timberlake bequeath a lady with his genitalia, you’re already familiar with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. The trio have brought their demented brand of smart-but-silly comedy to the otherwise vanilla airwaves of “Saturday Night Live,” where the latter two write sketches and Samberg, a heartthrob who happens to be hilarious, has made a splash as the show’s newest star...
...post-screening Q&A, Schaffer noted that with online videos, “I can make it as short as it’s funny.” He didn’t have that luxury with “Hot Rod,” which clocks in around 90 minutes...
...Lonely Island,” a sketch troupe specializing in “The O.C.” spoofs and parody raps. But with this summer’s release of “Hot Rod,” a big-budget comedy starring Samberg and directed by Schaffer, the group will attempt to translate their low-fi style to a larger audience and a wider screen...
...Qaeda. The Tigers deny any such connection, and no security agency has produced proof. Author DeVotta says the idea that the Tigers are "a threat to the world" is "nonsense," noting: "The Tigers' one goal is creating a separate state. They are a threat to Sri Lanka." But Teresita Schaffer, director of the South Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, explains that the high profile of terrorism, "which has been a hallmark of this conflict from the start," inevitably means the Tigers attract attention from the world's security services...
...comedian is the first of the Internet auteurs to cross into the mainstream. Lazy Sunday is similar to the hip-hop--drenched absurdist stuff he and his two friends since junior high school--Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer--had been posting for years on thelonelyisland.com They are the kind of guys who spend very little time debating whether an idea for a sketch--or anything--is worth pursuing. "That's been our attitude from the start, inspired by Akiva," says Samberg. "He's a can-do kind of dude. He says what separates people is that some people talk about...