The Lonely Island (which also includes Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) has a popular website where they make their sketches and music available for download. Samberg played the role of Aaron in The OC parody The 'Bu, the group's popular contribution to Channel 101. They also made a pilot for Fox called Awesometown and have written for various award shows, most notably the 2004 and 2005 MTV Movie Awards.
Screen cap from the SNL sketch "Lazy Sunday".On September 13, 2005, the Lonely Island website confirmed that Samberg would be joining Saturday Night Live as a featured player, while Schaffer and Taccone would join the show's writing staff.
Samberg's first appearance was a commercial parodying Morgan Stanley. While his live sketch role was limited in his first year, he did a few non-live sketches. He starred in a parody commercial for lettuce, in which he and Will Forte were having a serious discussion about the death of a friend while taking large bites out of heads of lettuce during lulls in the conversation. Most recently he played young Chuck Norris in the aptly named digital short, "Young Chuck Norris".
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