Boing Boing: "Creative commons comics" join Saturday Night Live cast

Monday, August 22, 2005

"Creative commons comics" join Saturday Night Live cast

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. Fox passed, none of the networks picked it up, so the guys released the pilot on their website under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

Previously, we'd blogged other work from the dudes including their Channel 101 short series The 'Bu, and a supremely deadpan music video called "Just Two Guys."

But here's the big news -- a blog exclusive. 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.

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.

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Previously: Lonely Island: wack-ass online shorts and mp3s

"Lonely Island"-er Andy Samberg on Comedy Central

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