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  The guy who writes the SNL digital short songs

  posted by songspeak | 05.26.09 | permalink | 1 comment

  He gave you Dick In A Box, Mother Lover, and Lazy Sunday and is the brother of Jorma Taccone, one of the three Lonely Island dudes. His name is Asa Taccone, and he’s also doing music for the MTV Movie Awards airing May 31st, 2009.

  Asa Taccone is part of the Black Iris collective, an agency that creates music for advertisements and the entertainment industry. With offices in NYC, Los Angeles, and Richmond, VA, Black Iris has also started their own singles label. The label has been lucrative, selling longer versions of the songs you may hear in something like the newest Cadillac ad for example. Other Black Iris work includes compositions for the ESPN X Games, Gatorade, and Hummer.

  Creativity recently posted an interview with Asa…

  What’s the process for composing the music for the digital shorts? Is it as hectic as it seems?
  Completely. It really is just as hectic as anything you’ve heard. I’ve gone and done some of the work in New York and when I see how SNL is put together, it amazes me that anything is funny on that show. It’s so last minute. For “Mother Lover” Justin was re-recording vocals about an hour and a half before the show started. It’s because we always have to send stuff to NBC’s standards and practices department, and often it’s like, “Uh, no that can’t go on air.” So we have to change things all throughout the process.
  It’s so hectic that the network didn’t even know who did the music for “Dick in a Box.” My brother gave me $60 for that track. My name didn’t really come up until the Emmys and someone asked. It’s just so chaotic, but it works.

  Usually the process is, my brother will call and give us the general joke idea, and that changes about four or five times in a four hour period until they land on an idea that they think is funny. Then we send them a bunch of tracks and they’ll either pick something they like and just start writing to that or, when it’s more organized like in the case of “Dick in a Box” and “Mother Lover,” they give us a more specific outline. For “Dick in a Box” they wanted a cheesy, 90s, Color Me Badd type track. Then we just go from there, and there’s usually so little time to get everything done.

  Drew Campbell and I did “Mother Lover” and I got the call on the Monday at about 3:20 a.m., L.A. time, and all those guys were in the studio with Justin Timberlake, just writing and trying to figure things out. It seems like that’s a lot of time, but so much changes right up to when the show goes on the air.

  (more here)

  Here’s a partial list of some of the things Asa Taccone has been involved with on SNL (from imDB:

  – Dane Cook/James Blunt (3 December 2005) – composer (additional music)
  - Jack Black/Neil Young (17 December 2005) – Soundtrack (writer: “Lazy Sunday”), Composer
  - Peter Sarsgaard/The Strokes (21 January 2006) – Soundtrack (writer: “Young Chuck Norris”), composer (additional music) (more…)

  Tags: 2009 mtv movie awards, andy samberg, asa taccone, black iris, digital short, drew campbell, jorma taccone, music composer, saturday night live, snl, writer, wrote

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• songspeak

  I’m a mother lover, you’re a mother lover, we should love each other’s mothers

  posted by songspeak | 05.11.09 | permalink | 3 comments

  Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake offered up an eyebrow raising follow up to Dick In a Box, this time a wonderfully inappropriate Mother’s Day seduction song called Motherlover. Susan Sarandon plays Samberg’s mom and Patricia Clarkson plays Timberlake’s mom. Each of them tries to seduce the other one’s mom as a gift for Mother’s Day. Lyrics after the video.

  Dick In a Box actually won a fricken Emmy. I wonder if this will follow in its footsteps. Motherlover was directed by The Lonely Island dudes, Akiva Shaffer and Jorma Taccone.

  The lyrics to Motherlover:

  Andy Samberg: Oh dang…
  Justin Timberlake: What is it dawg?
  AS: I forgot it’s Mother’s Day
  JT: Didn’t get a gift for her
  AS: Other plans got in the way
  She’ll be so disappointed
  JT: Damn I forgot it too
  AS: This could have been avoided
  Both: What the hell are we gonna do?

  JT: My mom’s been so forlorn ever since my daddy left.
  AS: COLD
  JT: No one to hold her tight, life has put her to the test.
  AS: I know just what you mean, my mom’s been so sad and gray
  JT: Word
  AS: My dad can’t satisfy her in the bedroom ever since he passed away

  Both: Hold up
  AS: You thinkin’ what I’m thinkin’?
  JT: I’m thinkin’ I’m thinkin’ too
  Both: Slow up
  AS: What time is it dawg?
  JT: It’s time for a switcharoo
  Both: We both love our moms, women with grown women needs
  I say we break ‘em off and show ‘em how much they really mean

  CHORUS:

  ’cause I’m a mother lover, you’re a mother lover
  We should fuck each other’s mothers
  Fuck each other’s moms
  I’m pushin’ that lady where you came out as a baby
  ain’t no doubt that shit is crazy
  Fuckin’ each others moms
  ’cause every Mother’s Day needs a Mother’s Night
  If doing it is wrong, I don’t wanna be right
  I’m callin’ on you ’cause I can’t do it myself
  to me your like a brother, so be my Motherlover

  AS: I’m layin’ in the cut waitin’ for your mom clutchin’ on this lube and roses
  JT: I got my digital camera, I’m gonna make your momma do a million poses
  AS: They will be so surprised
  JT: We are so cool and thoughtful
  AS: Can’t wait to pork your mom
  JT: I’m gonna be the syrup, she can be my waffle
  Both: Sho’ Nuff
  JT: My mother loves bubble bath with chamomile
  Both: Straight up
  AS: Give it to my mom d- d- d- d- d- d- doggie-style
  Both: This the perfect plan
  For a perfect Mother’s Day
  They have to rename this one
  All up under the covers day

  CHORUS:

  ’cause I’m a mother lover, you’re a mother lover
  We should fuck each other’s mothers
  Fuck each other’s moms
  I’m pushin’ that lady where you came out as a baby
  ain’t no doubt that shit is crazy
  Fuckin’ each others moms
  AS: Break it down
  It would be my honor to be your new stepfather
  JT: It would be my honor to be your new stepfather
  AS: I’ll let you do my mother, make me another brother
  and I’m gonna do your mother
  I’ll never use a rubber
  JT: OH

  ’cause every Mother’s Day needs a Mother’s Night
  If doing it is wrong, I don’t wanna be right
  I’m callin’ on you ’cause I can’t do it myself
  to me you’re like a brother, so be my mother lover
  They blessed us both with the gift of life
  She brought you in this world so I’m a sex her right
  This is the second best idea that we’ve ever had
  The choice can be no other
  Be my mother lover

  Happy Mother’s Day

  Tags: akiva shaffe, andy samberg, digital short, fuck each other's moms, it would be my honor to be your new stepfather, jorma taccone, justin timberlake, mother lover, mother's day, motherlover, saturday night live, snl, the lonely island, where you came out as a baby

  3 comments

• songspeak

  Where do you where do you go, my lovely? Uhhhh, McDonald’s, I guess?

  posted by jamie | 04.24.09 | permalink | 2 comments

  I had lunch at McDonald’s today.

  And let’s see, I didn’t drive my Delorean there. I didn’t turn a giant frozen donkey wheel prior to leaving the office. I didn’t even get in a phone booth or anything. So why was I transported back to 1996 when I set foot in the restaurant?

  As I sat down and got ready to sink my teeth into my double-quarter pounder with cheese meal and its two sear-sizzled grade-A beef patties of goodness, what do I hear playing over the speakers? Why, Where Do You Go? by No Mercy of course. You’d know the song if you heard it. It was one of those dance hits, the style of which was uber-popular in the mid to late 90′s. In fact, until just now, I thought No Mercy was responsible for the following, but it was really Haddaway:

  All those friggin’ dance techno groups sounded the same, didn’t they? And who hasn’t bopped their head along to this kind of music like Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan? I’m not sure if that falls under the category of songspeak or dancespeak, but it’s definitely been ingrained in our culture thanks to Saturday Night Live.

  And while we’re of the subject of techno dance music, let’s have a (much belated) moment of silence for Melanie Thornton, former lead singer of La Bouche. We never had a chance to be her lover. Be her lover.

  Tags: 90s music, A Night at the Roxbury, ABC, baby don't hurt me, back to the future, be my lover, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Chris Kattan, delorean, double quarter pounder with cheese, frozen donkey wheel, haddaway, La Bouche, lost, mcdonald's, Melanie Thornton, no mercy, phone booth, plane crash, saturday night live, sear sizzled, snl, what is love, where do you go, will ferrell

  2 comments

• songspeak

  Don’t get me started… Don’t EVEN get me started!

  posted by matt | 02.11.09 | permalink | 1 comment

  Someone said “Don’t get me started” when I was complaining about something today, and it reminded me of this fantastic Molly Shannon SNL sketch, “Jeanie Darcy at St. Joseph’s Hospital“.

  Really reminds me of Paula Poundstone. Why people think she’s funny I’ll never know. Don’t even get me started.

  Tags: comedian, don't even get me started, don't get me started, jeanie darcy, molly shannon, paula poundstone, saturday night live, snl, st. joseph's hospital

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• songspeak

  “We’re The Dancers!” directed by Paul Rudd

  posted by songspeak | 02.06.09 | permalink | comment?

  When Paul Rudd “directed” the parody of Beyonce‘s Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) on SNL awhile back, we thought we were going to pee our pants. Featuring ”The Dancers”, Justin Timberlake, Andy Samberg, and Bobby Moynihan, here’s most of the skit here for your viewing pleasure.

  It’s been a little hard to find. She is…. Sasha Fierce.

  Tags: andy samberg, beyonce, bobby moynihan, justin timberlake, paul rudd, put a ring on it, sasha fierce, saturday night live, single ladies, snl, the dancers

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• songspeak

  McGruber/PepSuber and Richard Dean Anderson… in a Super Bowl commercial?

  posted by matt | 02.02.09 | permalink | comment?

  As a childhood MacGyver fan, the McGruber sketches that have been airing on SNL for quite awhile now are amusing to me. This past weekend, the following aired during the Steve Martin hosted episode of Saturday Night Live:

  I was amused by Pepsi’s “Refresh Everything” endorsement, though a little confused when I saw this same sketch aired during Super Bowl XLIII. Are Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, and Richard Dean Anderson (who looks like he’s showing his age) that hard up for cash?

  Tags: 00s tv commercials, kristen wiig, macgruber, pepsi, pepsuber, richard dean anderson, saturday night live, snl, super bowl, super bowl ads, will forte, XLIII

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• songspeak

  Doogie Howser, M.D. theme with SNL symphony orchestra

  posted by matt | 01.16.09 | permalink | 7 comments

  When Neil Patrick Harris hosted this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live, the SNL Digital Short was nothing short of awesome.

  It features NPH on keyboards playing the theme to his hit tv show from his (and ours) youth, Doogie Howser, M.D. The rest of the SNL cast backs him up as his orchestra.

  The single tear he cries at the end really makes it.

  Neil Patrick Harris seems to really have fun with his image as Doogie Howser. Check out this Old Spice commercial where he introduces himself as a former make-believe doctor… a doctor for pretend.

  Tags: 00s tv commercials, cries, cry, doogie howser, m.d., make believe, neil patrick harris, old spice, orchestra, pretend, saturday night live, snl, snl digital short, symphony, tear

  7 comments

• songspeak

  You say I’m premature, I just call it ecstasy

  posted by matt | 12.08.08 | permalink | 4 comments

  SNL Digital Shorts. They’re just awesome. The latest, Jizz In My Pants, follows a long line of hilarious Andy Samberg-penned gems.

  Appearances by Jamie Lynn Sigler (as the cashier), Molly Sims (the model), Justin Timberlake (the janitor), and Jorma Taccone from The Lonely Island.

  Tags: andy samberg, cashier, dance, digital short, european, jamie lynn sigler, janitor, jizz in my pants, jorma taccone, justin timberlake, model, molly sims, premature, snl, the lonely island

  4 comments

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  Justin Timberlake performs an entire SNL during Weekend Update

  posted by jamie | 11.19.08 | permalink | 2 comments

  I didn’t get to watch Saturday Night Live until last night because we had DVR’ed it, and I was most impressed by Justin Timberlake’s performance on Weekend Update. Lamenting the fact that he had to cancel his hosting duties for the Thanksgiving episode of SNL, he decided to perform the whole episode in just a few minutes.

  Highlights include him “bringin’ turkey back”, Turkeyville, the Barry Gibb talk show, and his Michael McDonald impression.

  If only every episode of Saturday Night Live could be as amusing as JT’s consolidated performance…

  Tags: 00s tv, barry gibb, justin timberlake, michael mcdonald, saturday night live, sexy back, snl, thanksgiving, the barry gibb talk show, turkeyville, weekend update

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• songspeak

  clownpenis.fart

  posted by jamie | 11.03.08 | permalink | comment?

  Matt’s recent SNL commercial-related post has inspired me to think of past classic Saturday Night Live commercials and ad parodies.

  One of the favorites around our household, and still referenced if we see a commercial featuring a product or service with an overly complicated web address, is the following:

  Either Jo or I will undoubtedly mention clownpenis.fart when we see an ad with a ridiculous website. And it cracks us up every time.

  

  Tags: 00s tv, clownpenis.fart, commercial parodies, complicated websites, dillon/edwards, dillon/edwards investments, ridiculous websites, saturday night live, snl

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