I think our preference might have been to rethink the format even more, but given the schedule, we went with the same basic structure but updated. What from the first one did you know you wanted to bring back?Īgain, we got asked so late, it wasn’t really a conscious choice.
We are always working on music, at least a little bit. We’ve been working on a few ideas, but nothing concrete. You three are still working on projects together, but how often have you worked on music since Popstar ? What is it like getting the band back together? As long as the audience laughs, it’s a win. In the end, it seems like it came out pretty good. I will say, I wish they had called us on Monday! There were many things we would have done differently, but that’s SNL. The director, Paul Briganti, and the editor, Jeremiah Shuff, did a great job, especially under the rushed circumstances. It was tricky because they wanted to do right by us, but also they really had to take control because there just wasn’t time to go back and forth a lot.
They sent us a cut in the afternoon and we gave thoughts. Then Akiva worked like crazy to put the song together. Saturday morning, we FaceTimed with Natalie again, while she recorded the rest of her parts. Back in L.A., we had about an hour to write my part of the song, and then run outside to a rooftop/parking garage and shoot the footage and send it to New York. They started shooting the video before the song was done, so Natalie had to lip sync to our voices on parts of the track. So we gave them our thoughts and let them run with it. SNL was going to have to shoot and edit the video in NYC without us, which was a first. We got through about half before she had to go block sketches. On Friday morning, we FaceTimed with Natalie as she recorded her vocals. Then we wrote the rest late into the night. On Thursday, the three of us - Akiva, Jorma, and I - brainstormed over the phone a bunch during my shooting breaks and then Akiva started to record a rough demo. But we love Natalie and SNL and wanted to figure it out.
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We weren’t sure how to get it done from L.A., plus I was shooting Brooklyn Nine-Nine all week. We got the call from SNL on Wednesday evening saying they really wanted to do another one. And she actually loves the music.Ĭan you walk me through what happened once you found out Natalie was hosting again? When and how did you work on it together? What makes Natalie so good at comedy rapping? It was hilarious and convincing, so we said, Great! Her public persona was so squeaky clean that it was fun to rip it apart with her. We were skeptical, but then she told us she was a big Lil’ Kim fan and spit an entire verse for us.
She had seen “Lazy Sunday” and wanted to do a rap. Let’s back up, what inspired you to do “Natalie’s Rap” the first time? We talked to Samberg about how “Natalie’s Rap 2” came together in three days, what he misses about working on SNL, and whether Jar Jar Binks having 17 dicks is canon. And, as he tells Vulture, it almost didn’t happen. In fact, if you discount the videos they play on the show to promote other projects, this is their first short since Samberg left SNL in 2012. Almost 12 years after Natalie Portman’s first rap, we got “ Natalie’s Rap 2.” The difference is, unlike the previous sequels, the guys don’t work at the show anymore. The biggest gap between Lonely Island installments, of course, was 2005’s “ Lazy Sunday” and 2012’s “ Lazy Sunday 2.” When Rihanna was the musical guest in 20, poor Shy Ronnie had to try to rap twice. Justin Timberlake’s return to SNL brought us “ Motherlover” three years after “ Dick in a Box,” and “ 3-Way (The Golden Rule)” two years after that. This might seem like a small thing, but to comedy writers at a show where they are often asked to go back to a well, it’s an impressive feat. When Vulture interviewed Seth Meyers about the SNL writers’ quest to pick the best Lonely Island digital short a couple years ago, he kept coming back to Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer’s ability to shoot sequels that actually topped their original sketches.
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