Jorma Taccone

Jorma Taccone
Taccone in 2007
Birth name	Jorma Christopher[citation needed] Taccone
Born	March 19, 1977 (1977-03-19) (age 34) Berkeley, California
Medium	Internet, stand-up, music, television, film
Nationality	American
Years active	2001–present
Genres	Sketch comedy Situational comedy Comedy hip hop
Spouse	Marielle Heller
Website	thelonelyisland.com

Jorma Christopher Taccone (pronounced yorma tuh-cone-nee; born March 19, 1977) is an American comedy writer-actor-director. Taccone is one third of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island along with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. In 2010, he co-wrote and directed the SNL spin-off film MacGruber.

Personal life

Taccone was born in Berkeley, California, the son of Sue Ellen and Tony Taccone, who is the artistic director of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.^[1] He is of Italian and Puerto Rican descent on his father's side.^[2] He is a graduate of UCLA Film School. ^[3] Jorma's brother, Asa, often helps The Lonely Island by making music for their shorts.^[4]

Career

In the fall of 2005, Samberg, Taccone, and Schaffer joined the staff of NBC's late night variety show Saturday Night Live. Since then, The Lonely Island has been responsible for creating more than 60 SNL Digital Short films including the YouTube favorites "Lazy Sunday" (featuring Chris Parnell), "Jizz in My Pants", "I'm on a Boat" (featuring T-Pain) and the Emmy-winning "Dick in a Box" (featuring Justin Timberlake). Taccone produces much of the music for The Lonely Island including Lazy Sunday, "Dick in a Box" and many other tracks that appear on The Lonely Island's first album Incredibad which was released February 2009. As a director, Taccone is responsible for the SNL shorts MacGruber, Business Meeting, Sloths, Giraffes, and others. He also directed a MacGruber Pepsi commercial spot for the 43rd Super Bowl which aired February 1, 2009.

In 2007, Taccone co-starred in Paramount's Hot Rod, (starring Andy Samberg, directed by Akiva Schaffer). Taccone is also one of the principal actors in the music video "Jizz in My Pants". He also plays Guy #2 in "We Like Sportz", reprising the role from "Just 2 Guyz". Taccone played the lead role of Brett in The Lonely Island's The ’Bu, the group's record-breaking contribution to Channel 101,^[5] where he played a ninja who did not belong. The ’Bu, a parody of The OC, also starred Sarah Chalke (Roseanne, Scrubs) as Melissa and Andy Samberg as Aaron. In the group's first Channel 101 show, "ITV Buzz Countdown", Taccone played Chris Hoffman, a fictional VJ on a parody of MTV's Total Request Live. He made a cameo appearance in Role Models as Mitch from Graphics, in which he sings a karaoke version of the Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane", he co-stars in the Gnarls Barkley music video for the song "Who's Gonna Save My Soul".

Taccone appeared as Chaka in Universal's 2009 film Land of the Lost, starring Will Ferrell.

In August 2009, Taccone directed his first film, an adaptation of the Saturday Night Live sketch MacGruber.

Taccone was featured as part of the group male vocals on Lightspeed Champion's album Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You.

As of SNL's 36th season, Jorma is no longer cited in the end credits, though he is still listed on the NBC website as a writer and holds the unofficial title of "Sexiest Member of Lonely Island." According to his band's website, thelonelyisland.com, however, "the Dudes" are still responsible for the SNL Digital Shorts. It was later confirmed that Jorma had quit Saturday Night Live, though he worked on some shorts in the 36th season.^[6]

Filmography

Year	Film	Actor	Writer	Director	Role	Notes
2007	Hot Rod	Yes	No	No	Kevin Powell
2008	Extreme Movie	No	Yes	No
	Role Models	Yes	No	No	Mitch from Graphics	Cameo
2009	Land of the Lost	Yes	No	No	Cha-Ka	Nominated - Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor
2010	MacGruber	No	Yes	Yes

Television

• Saturday Night Live (2005–2010) – writer, supporting actor, music

• Up All Night (2011) - Season 1, Episode 3, guest star as Ava's ex-boyfriend, B-Ro

• "Parks and Recreation" (2011) - Season 4, Episode 7, director

Videography

• "Just 2 Guyz" (2006)
• "Jizz in My Pants" (2008)
• "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" (2008)
• "We Like Sportz" (2008)
• "I'm on a Boat" (2009)
• "Like a Boss" (2009)
• "I Just Had Sex" (2010)
• "The Creep" (2011)
• "We're Back" (2011)
• "Jack Sparrow" (2011)^[7]

References

1. ^ "Berkeley Repertory Theatre". Berkeleyrep.org. http://www.berkeleyrep.org/HTML/CurrentSeason/CD_whoswho.html. Retrieved 2010-11-03. 
2. ^ Hurwitt, Robert (July 5, 2006), "Tony Taccone: Riding high on his recent successes, theater veteran has big plans for Berkeley Rep". Chronicle Theater Critic. . Retrieved 2009-05-18.
3. ^ "Jorma Taccone Biography - Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1809639116/bio. Retrieved 2010-11-03. 
4. ^ "Jorma Taccone". MovieTome. 2009. http://www.movietome.com/people/418110/jorma-taccone/trivia.html. 
5. ^ "Channel 101—The Unavoidable Future of Entertainment". Channel101.com. http://www.channel101.com/. Retrieved 2010-11-03. 
6. ^ "AV Club—The Lonely Island". avclub.com. 2011-5-24. http://www.avclub.com/. Retrieved 2011-5-24. 
7. ^ <iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GI6CfKcMhjY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

External links

• The Lonely Island
• Jorma Taccone at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Taccone, Jorma
Alternative names
Short description	American comedy writer, actor and film director
Date of birth	March 19, 1977
Place of birth	Berkeley, California
Date of death
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