
It successfully made fun of the faux gravitas of entrances while also amping up the crowd. Now we’re at the top of the back of the stage Now we’re walking up the back of the stage So they went right in the middle, with a new track where they literally described in extreme detail the specifics of their entrance. As I heard beforehand, so were Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer, because the Lonely Island performing a live show represented a bit of a conundrum: How do you “ of posturing and pretending to be cool and tough and masculine,” as Schaffer had once summarized the group’s raison d’etre to me, when that’s exactly what putting on a concert is? Relatedly, it didn’t make sense to put on a “good” show where they seriously performed their songs as if they were hit rappers running through their catalogue, but it would be worse to do a “bad” show where the joke was how poorly it went, as that would completely undermine all their effort to convey that the joke wasn’t just “Look at who is rapping (white people)!” Too big an entrance would’ve felt pompous too small would’ve been unsatisfying to a crowd that had been waiting years for this. Three guys in turtlenecks and chains to my right, two women in Style Boyz sweatshirts to my left, I was nervous. See, it was 10 p.m., Friday night, and, after nearly 30 years knowing each other and nearly 20 years making comedy together, in front of a hometown crowd, the Lonely Island were about to play their first official concert ever. In the center of said stage was a larger screen that also read “The Lonely Island.” In all three versions, there was a palm tree. Give us time here.“The Lonely Island” read the two large screens surrounding the outdoor Clusterfest main stage Friday night. Tumblr: we can't currently log in to our old account. Girl Genius Twitter: || Kaja on Twitter: || Phil on Twitter: on Instagram at: The Girl Genius Discord (we don't run this one, either!):

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