Jorma Taccone

Writer/Actor/Director Jorma Taccone is one third of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island, along with Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. They joined the staff of Saturday Night Live in the fall of 2005, and since then have created more than 60 SNL Digital Shorts including “Lazy Sunday,” “Jizz in My Pants,” “I’m on a Boat” featuring T-Pain, the Emmy award-winning “Dick in a Box” featuring Justin Timberlake, and most recently “Hugs” which premiered on SNL in May. Many of these hits appear on the Lonely Island’s first album, Incredibad, released in February 2009. In August of that year, Jorma directed his first film, MacGruber, based on the Saturday Night Live sketch. At last year’s Emmy Awards, Jorma scored nominations for three of The Lonely Island’s Digital Shorts: “I Just Had Sex,” “Jack Sparrow,” and “3 Way.” Lonely Island released a second album in 2012 entitled “Turtleneck and Chain” and are currently working on their third album.

Further in the TV world, Jorma has directed episodes of Parks & Recreation and Up All Night and has had a reoccurring role on HBO’s breakout hit, GIRLS as Booth Jonathan, artist and Marni’s love interest.

In the commercial world, Jorma has done camapaigns for clients such as HBO, Target and AT&T. His campaign “Brackets By Six Year Olds” for AT&T has continued on to become one of AT&T’s most successful campaigns.