Roundtable Interview: Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone of 'Hot Rod'

Published: August 3, 2007, 2:31 pm

Tags: andy samberg, andysamberg, hot rod, hotrod, lonely island, lonelyisland, saturday night live, saturdaynightlive

Filed under: Comedy, Paramount, Interviews Like Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, you goofed around with your best friends in grade school; perhaps, like them, you even extended that goofball camaraderie into high school and university and beyond, as they did. It is, however, fairly certain that you and your friends -- unlike them -- did not parlay that lifelong tradition of laughter into a series of virally infectious internet shorts (released under the banner "The Lonely Island") that earned you jobs at a cultural-institution sketch comedy show and then into the star, director and co-star roles in a major-studio motion picture. But, sitting around a gleaming table at a San Francisco four-star hotel, Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone still give the impression they're goofing off and trying to make each other laugh instead of promoting a major motion picture -- and that easy sense of friends-and-fun is up on the screen in Hot Rod. Samberg stars as would-be stuntman Rod

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