The Lonely Island made their triumphant return to Saturday Night time Reside this weekend, delivering their first brief in additional than six years.
The Lonely Island is again and boy have they got a pitch; simply hear them out! It has been greater than six years for the reason that comedy group final launched one in every of their famed SNL Digital Shorts, however the boys returned throughout this week’s episode of Saturday Night time Reside to drop a brand new banger…so to talk.
“Sushi Glory Gap” finds Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer (two founding members of The Lonely Island, together with Jorma Taccone) getting into a gathering with prime execs performed by Bowen Yang, Maya Rudolph and Kenan Thompson. Their thought? Nicely, let’s see if these ailing rhymes do the trick: You forgot to eat, now you’re out and about however you wanna be discreet / Can’t be eatin’ omakase in the midst of the road / Then you definately open the app: SGH is all around the map / So that you head to a membership, hit the lavatory stall / Discover the sushi-size gap within the toilet wall / Then make a want, and put together for some shockingly excessive grade fish! Now that is culinary innovation! You possibly can watch the complete brief beneath:
Andy Samberg was on double obligation on the second episode of the season, as he additionally performed Doug Emhoff (to Rudolph’s Kamala Harris), a task he debuted through the season 50 premiere of SNL final week. With the election ramping up, Samberg can count on to have a gentle function for not less than one other month.
The Lonely Island’s final Digital Brief got here with 2018’s “Natalie’s Rap 2.0”, the follow-up to among the finest, 2006’s “Natalie’s Rap”. That quantity – which discovered Natalie Portman vulgarly reacting to followers – would find yourself being featured on the band’s first album, Incredibad. Additionally on that album had been “Lazy Sunday” (which launched the SNL Digital Shorts into the stratosphere), “Jizz in My Pants” and vacation staple “Dick in a Field.” One other monitor, “I’m on a Boat”, can be nominated for a Grammy, whereas their sophomore album, Turtleneck & Chain, can be up for Greatest Comedy Album.
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