The Lonely Island (TLI) is an American comedy troupe composed of Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, and Andy Samberg, best known for its musical parodies. The group is from Berkeley, California, and is currently based in New York City. The group began creating live comedy skits in junior high school and continued to do so, expanding its repertoire to comedic shorts, music parody (both songs and videos), and one full-length television pilot, before coming to the attention of Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live (SNL). Once on the show, they wrote \\\\\\\"Lazy Sunday,\\\\\\\" a better-produced music parody video much like the group\\\\\\\'s previous work. It became an instant Internet success, and led to the creation of similar digital shorts that also aired on Saturday Night Live. The Emmy-winning \\\\\\\"Dick in a Box\\\\\\\", \\\\\\\"Jizz in My Pants\\\\\\\", \\\\\\\"Like a Boss\\\\\\\" and the Grammy-nominated \\\\\\\"I\\\\\\\'m on a Boat\\\\\\\" have subsequently had huge success both on the show and on the Internet and prompted the recording and release of an album, Incredibad, in which the group moves in a more musical direction. In August 2007, the group premiered its first feature film, Hot Rod. The Lonely Island Also known as Incredibad, the Dudes Origin Berkeley, California Genres Comedy hip hop, Comedy rock, nerdcore Years active 2001–present Labels Universal Republic Records Associated acts T-Pain, Justin Timberlake, Natalie Portman, Jack Black, E-40, Julian Casablancas, Seth Rogen, Norah Jones, Tenacious D, Rihanna Members Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone \"Jizz in My Pants\" (known in the edited version as J*** in My Pants) is an SNL Digital Short which aired on Saturday Night Live on December 6, 2008 and YouTube on the same day.It serves as the music video for the first single from The Lonely Island\'s debut album, Incredibad. The video stars The Lonely Island members Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and, briefly, Akiva Schaffer, and also features guest appearances by Molly Sims, Justin Timberlake and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. \"Jizz in my Pants\" has been viewed over 75 million times on YouTube, as of December 2009, outviewing OK Go\'s popular treadmill music video, \"Here It Goes Again\", in less than half of a year. The video\'s availability on YouTube is due to its being published by The Lonely Island instead of Saturday Night Live. SNL had previously posted its own videos on YouTube, but removed its channel when Hulu.com was created. Plot The video opens with Samberg in a night club and he sings about hitting on Molly Sims. They head to her apartment, but as they share a kiss in the hallway outside her door he ejaculates, or \"jizzes,\" prematurely. Taccone is then shown conversing with a check-out girl, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, in a grocery store, but jizzes in his pants as well. When he calls for a cleanup, the janitor is Justin Timberlake (wearing glasses), who shakes his head in disgust. Samberg then exits a movie theater (from what he recalled was a horror film) when the discovery of a missed cellphone call from a girl causes him to prematurely ejaculate. In another scene, Taccone is seen driving a Mercedes Benz while listening to the radio, when a song begins to play that reminds him of a girl, causing him to \"jizz in his pants\" yet again. Samberg and Taccone then sing about how easily they \"jizz in their pants\" from stimuli such as an alarm clock, opening a window, the twist ending of The Sixth Sense, and simply eating a grape. They explain that whenever they are adjacent to women, they ejaculate prematurely, which, they say, necessitates the constant wearing of condoms. Akiva Schaffer can be seen in the background at various times as the disc jockey. Reception Critical A number of commentators enjoyed \"Jizz in My Pants\". Jennifer Maerz of SF Weekly felt the video was \"funny in a totally moronic way,\" describing it as \"pure electro-trash\" with \"douchebag clothes, attitudes, and beats\".Mickey O\'Connor of TV Guide liked the song\'s \"clever lyrics\" which \"brilliantly satirize the pompous chill of \'90s synth rock.\'\" The New York Observer writer Christopher Rosen described the video as \"awesomely catchy\", in contrast to the rest of the SNL episode, which he felt was not very good. \"Jizz in My Pants\'\" reception was not all positive, however. Jerry Portwood of New York Press compared the video unfavorably to the work of \"Weird Al\" Yankovic. The video did not satisfy him \"beyond a few chuckles.\" Portwood preferred Yankovic\'s ability to parody current events and pop culture, dissecting \"what was actually manipulative and mind-numbing about popular music and the market as a whole\". He wrote that Samberg, in contrast, sticks to \"safe and, ultimately, ineffective parody.\" Commercial The track sold 76,000 downloads in its first two weeks of availability.[8] The song has gone Gold in Australia with sales in excess of 35,000. The video was published first on YouTube along with most of Lonely Island\'s works. As of December 30, 2009, Jizz In My Pants has been watched over 70 million views, making it one of the most popular videos on Youtube (it recently made its way to the front page of the most watched YouTube videos of all time) and Lonely Island\'s most popular video ever. Single by The Lonely Island from the album Incredibad Released December 6, 2008 Format Digital download Recorded 2008 Genre Comedy hip hop Electro Length 2:31 Label Universal Republic Writer(s) Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, M. Forno Producer Prime Certification Gold (ARIA), (CRIA)