Other Lonely Island Shorts On SNL
Produced by The Lonely Island, and/or labeled Digital Shorts on official YouTube postings, these shorts aired on an SNL episode but not with the official SNL Digital Short title card. As with the Digital Shorts, these are directed by Akiva Schaffer. However, according to the official LonelyIsland website, the MacGruber shorts are directed by Jorma Taccone and written by Will Forte.
| Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An SNL Movie Trailer Recut: Apocalypto | Matt Murray | Akiva Schaffer | December 9, 2006 | The trailer for Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto is newly subtitled, implying that the Jews destroyed the Maya civilization, in reference to Gibson's anti-semitic remarks in 2006. |
| MacGruber (Parts 1, 2, and 3) | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | Jorma Taccone | January 20, 2007 | In three parodies of MacGyver, the titular hero (Forte) demands odd objects of his disgusted sidekicks (Jeremy Piven, Rudolph) in his attempts to stop catastrophic events that are mere seconds away. The episodes invariably end with his failure to stop the event. |
| Sloths | Unknown | Jorma Taccone | February 10, 2007 | A Staten Island Zoo worker (Wiig) introduces Staten Island Tech High School student's crude and vile documentary on sloths before previewing it herself. |
| MacGruber 2 | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | Jorma Taccone | May 12, 2007 | In three more segments, the titular hero (Forte), after 15 years of sobriety, begins drinking just as his sidekicks (Molly Shannon, Rudolph) need his bomb-defusing skills most. MacGruber's behavior evolves into a parody of David Hasselhoff's hangover video. |
| MacGruber 3 | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | Jorma Taccone | October 6, 2007 | In three more segments, the titular hero (Forte) becomes obsessed with his recent plastic surgeries just as his sidekicks (Seth Rogen, Rudolph) need his bomb-defusing skills most. |
| Virginia Horsen's Hot Air Balloon Rides | Unknown | Akiva Schaffer | February 23, 2008; February 14, 2009 | A fake commercial about a woman (Kristen Wiig) offering free hot air balloon rides to combat the long lines and intrusive searches at airports. There was a 2nd part to this commercial, in which Horsen flies over New York and Montreal, that was cut for time from the original airing. Both parts aired during Alec Baldwin's 2008–2009 appearance. |
| MacGruber 4 | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | John Solomon | March 15, 2008 | MacGruber (Forte) feels insecure when his assistant (Jonah Hill) says that he cannot do his job when he and Vicky (Wiig) need his bomb-defusing skills the most. Only two segments aired. In the third segment (which is available on some video websites), Hader appears as MacGruber's life coach. |
| MacGruber 5 | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | John Solomon | May 10, 2008 | MacGruber and his son, Merrill (Shia LaBeouf), team up together. However, in the process of escaping, Merrill inadvertently confesses that he's gay (by showing anal lubricant, a vibrating dildo, and his boyfriend Scott (Samberg) showing up) leaving MacGruber to make him straight again by reciting Bible verses and forcing him to kiss Vicky (Wiig). |
| MacGruber 6 | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | Jorma Taccone | October 18, 2008 | MacGruber discovers he lost all his money in the stock market and seeks desperate ways for cash just as his sidekicks (Josh Brolin, Wiig) need his bomb-defusing skills most. |
| Jam the Vote | Unknown | Akiva Schaffer | October 23, 2008 | Samberg walks around New York City asking people if they're registered to vote, which Wiig's character points out ended 2 weeks prior. Meanwhile, Samberg also fights back vomiting a spicy hot dog he stole. |
| Giraffes! | Unknown | Jorma Taccone | November 1, 2008 | A sequel to the "Sloths" video, only with Jason Sudeikis as the head of the Staten Island Zoo instead of Kristen Wiig. The same students create a video that proclaims giraffes are from outer space and will destroy mankind. |
| MacGruber 7 (Parts 1, 2 and 3) | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | Jorma Taccone | January 31, 2009 | MacGruber is helped by MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) and keeps trying to promote Pepsi, changing his name to "Pepsuber" and eventually replaces every word in his sentences with the word "Pepsi". These shorts were paid for by Pepsi as advertisements; as a result they aired during commercial breaks, not as part of the show itself, and did not air at all on the Canadian simsub on Global. The second of the three shorts was replayed as an ad during Super Bowl XLIII the next day. |
| MacGruber 8 | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | Jorma Taccone | March 7, 2009 | MacGruber is once again joined by MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson), who reveals that he's MacGruber's long-lost father (MacGruber's full name is actually "MacGruber MacGyver"), who left MacGruber's mother (Abby Elliot) for a stripper. |
| An SNL Movie Trailer Re-Cut: Palin 2012 | Unknown | John Solomon & Colin Jost | November 21, 2009 | In another installment of An SNL Movie Trailer Re-Cut, the trailer for the disaster film 2012 is changed into a political horror about Sarah Palin's possible election as U.S. President that year. |
| MacGruber 9 | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | Jorma Taccone | January 9, 2010 | When MacGruber gets an African-American sidekick (Charles Barkley), he inadvertently reveals that he is a racist. |
| An Even-Tempered Apology from White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel | Unknown | Unknown | February 6, 2010 | Rahm Emanuel (Samberg) apologizes to the Democratic Party for calling them "retarded," but then says what he meant to say with a lot of profanity. He also apologizes to Sarah Palin, only to put her down as well. At the end he says, "As for Mel Gibson, shut the fuck up!" |
| MacGruber 10 | Will Forte, Jorma Taccone & John Solomon | Jorma Taccone | May 8, 2010 | MacGruber works with his grandma (Betty White), who embarrasses him by telling Vicki stories about his past. |
| An SNL Movie Trailer Re-Cut: The Roommate" | Unknown | Unknown | February 5, 2011 | An SNL Movie Trailer Re-Cut of The Roommate, where a college student (Justin Bieber) believes his increasingly bizarre and obsessive roommate (Samberg) is planning to kill him. |
| We're Gonna Make Technology Hump | Andy Samberg, John Solomon, John Mulaney | John Solomon | November 12, 2011 | Upbeat technology showcase program hosts (Emma Stone and Andy Samberg) show various porno movie scenarios acted out by electronics and appliances (such as an Android phone and a digital camera having sex in a restaurant kitchen, an iPad hotel maid/call girl having sex with an Xbox controller after the Xbox controller recognizes her from her sex job, and a curling iron modeling nude for a GPS navigator). |
| Buble Christmas Duets | John Solomon, Erik Kenward, John Mulaney | John Solomon | December 17, 2011 | Fake commercial for Michael Buble's Christmas Album featuring outre duets with a variety of artists including Taylor Swift (played by Kristen Wiig), a gun-toting M.I.A. (played by Nasim Pedrad), Ke$ha (played by Abby Elliott), Lady Gaga (depicted as an overdecorated Christmas tree with a pink wig), Thom Yorke from Radiohead (played by Fred Armisen), Justin Bieber, Russell Brand, and Sting (all three played by episode host Jimmy Fallon). |
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