Jorma Taccone

Jorma Christopher Taccone (born March 19, 1977) is an American comedian, director and writer. He is one-third of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island, with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. In 2010, he co-wrote and directed the SNL spinoff film MacGruber, which was his directorial debut. He directed his second feature alongside Schaffer, the musical comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which he also co-wrote and co-starred in with Schaffer and Samberg.

Personal life
Taccone was born in Berkeley, California, the son of Sue Ellen and Tony Taccone, the artistic director of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. His father is half Italian and half Puerto Rican and His mother is of Swedish, Scottish, German, English, Dutch and Irish descent. Taccone is a graduate of UCLA Film School. His brother, Asa Taccone, is a member of the band Electric Guest.

Taccone lives in New York City. He is married to Marielle Heller, with whom he has a son Wylie Taccone (born December 12, 2014). His brother-in-law Nate, a musician, composed the scores for The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Can You Ever Forgive Me?. His sister-in-law Emily is a stand-up comic and a writer for the HBO comedy Barry.

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, as The Lonely Island (TLI), they have created more than 100 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 TLI's first album, Incredibad, released in February 2009. As a director, he 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). He is also one of the principal actors in the music video "Jizz in My Pants". He played Guy #2 in "We Like Sportz", reprising the role from "Just 2 Guyz". He played the lead role of Brett in TLI's The ’Bu, the group's record-breaking contribution to Channel 101, 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", he played Chris Hoffman, a fictional VJ in a parody of MTV's Total Request Live.

Taccone made a cameo appearance in Role Models as Mitch from Graphics, where he sang a karaoke version of the Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane"; and co-starred in the Gnarls Barkley music video for the song "Who's Gonna Save My Soul".

Taccone appeared as Cha-Ka in Universal's 2009 film Land of the Lost (starring Will Ferrell), for which he was nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor. In August 2009, he directed his first film, an adaptation of the Saturday Night Live sketch MacGruber, and 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, he 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". However, according to the band's website, thelonelyisland.com, "the Dudes" are still responsible for the SNL Digital Shorts. It was later confirmed Taccone had left Saturday Night Live, though he worked on some shorts in the 36th season.

Taccone acted in season 5 of MyDamnChannel's Wainy Days and is the director of the AT&T Wireless television ad campaign It's Not Complicated. He also had a recurring role on the HBO show Girls as the character Booth Jonathan.

In 2015, Taccone appeared in the Kickstarter short movie Kung Fury as Adolf Hitler (A.K.A. Kung-Führer).

Videography

 * "Just 2 Guyz" (2005)
 * "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)
 * "We'll Kill U" (2011)
 * "Jack Sparrow" (2011)
 * "American Daydream" (2012)
 * "YOLO" (2013)
 * "Between Two Ferns/Spring Break Anthem" (2013)
 * "Diaper Money" (2013)
 * "We Need Love" (2013)
 * "The Wire" (2013)
 * "Hugs" (2013)
 * "Go Kindergarten" (2013)