Akiva Schaffer Biography
Akiva Schaffer is a writer, director, performer, comedian, and musician from the United States who does comedy with The Lonely Island, a group that invented the digital short. In addition to producing TV shows and films, Schaffer has directed films, produced records, and produced Palm Springs, PEN15, and MacGruber. Popular songs and comedy have been produced by The Lonely Island.
How old is Schaffer? Age
Born Akiva Daniel Shebar Schaffer, the entertainer is 46 years old as of 1 December 2023. He was born in 1977 in Berkeley, California, United States.
Schaffer Childhood, Family – Education
Schaffer was born to Jewish parents from New York in Berkeley, California. He earned a film degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000.
Is Schaffer married?
Schaffer is wed to Liz Cackowski, an actress and comedy writer; the couple has two kids.
When did Schaffer leave SNL?
Schaffer directed, co-wrote, and edited most of the Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts after being hired in the fall of 2005. “Peyton Manning for the United Way,” “Iran So Far,” “Jizz in My Pants,” “Boombox,” “I’m on a Boat,” “Great Day,” “Threw It on the Ground,” “Jack Sparrow,” “Like A Boss,” “YOLO,” “Semicolon,” “Dear Sister,” “Spring Break Anthem,” “Shy Ronnie,” “Ras Trent,” and “Motherlover,” the sequel to “Dick in a Box,” are a few noteworthy shorts/songs. After working as a writer for SNL for six years, Schaffer departed in 2011, while Samberg and Taccone remained for an additional year before departing.
Schaffer role on Brooklyn Nine-Nine
For both Seasons One and Five of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he directed episodes. He made an appearance in the fifth season episode Show Me Going as Detective Brett Booth. At the 63rd Precinct, there is a detective named Brett Booth. He attended the Police Academy at the same time Rosa Diaz and Jake Peralta did.
He holds a vendetta toward Jake because Jake shot him with a rubber bullet during a training exercise, and for some reason the bullet passed through his goggles and struck him in the eye. Detective Brett Booth, in Show Me Going, is chosen to lead a multi-agency, multi-state task force that is being established to bust a street racing gang that has been smuggling drugs across state borders using customized automobiles. Sgt. Boomer Maxwell was originally intended to be in charge of the task force.
Booth tries to belittle and dominate Jake when he finds out that Jake wants to join the task force. However, Booth’s collision with a water cooler in the hallway breaks up the moment of dominance. Booth yells at Jake, thinking he is another policeman, “You’re gonna regret this, Peralta!” and then rushes off. Charles and Jake are not permitted to join the task force.
Schaffer on Podcast
Samberg, Taccone, and Seth Meyers discuss The Lonely Island’s SNL Digital Shorts on Schaffer’s podcast, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers.
Schaffer’s Work
After school, he and his cherished companions, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone, moved to Los Angeles and started making satire films. Theater chief Tony Taccone brought back the film Nervous wreck, a decision different men prodded as being “excessively dramatic”. The film, notwithstanding, propelled Schaffer to compose an exhausted play, in the style of Tennessee Williams, called The Forlorn Island, concerning their condo.
The name in the end reached out to the satire bunch itself. On the Web, Schaffer started out coordinating The Forlorn Island’s The ‘Bu, the gathering’s record-breaking commitment to Channel 101, which was a spoof of The OC and featured Sarah Chalke as Melissa, as well as Samberg and Taccone. Schaffer has added to a few other Channel 101 creations as a feature of the Desolate Island. In 2007, Schaffer coordinated and acted in the film Speedster, which featured Samberg, Taccone, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, Isla Fisher, Ian McShane, and Sissy Spacek, which was delivered by SNL’s Lorne Michaels.
Schaffer coordinated the film The Watch featuring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Slope and Richard Ayoade, and composed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Schaffer was credited as a leader maker on the film MacGruber. The movie was co-composed and coordinated by Jorma Taccone. In 2016 Schaffer co-composed, co-coordinated, and co-featured in the Judd Apatow delivered highlight film, Popstar: Never Stop Won’t ever stop. The film centers around pop/rap whiz Conner4Real (Samberg), who goes into a significant spiral and watches his VIP extravagance and luxury breakdown after his new collection neglects to sell records.
He additionally co-coordinated/made Michael Bolton’s Enormous, Attractive Valentine’s Day Unique for Netflix with Scott Aukerman. Schaffer coordinated four music recordings for the band We Are Researchers and one for the Hawks of Death Metal.
The Forlorn Island co-delivered the two times of I Figure You Ought to Leave with Tim Robinson, most episodes of which Schaffer has co-coordinated with Alice Mathias. Likewise in 2019, they delivered Netflix’s The Unapproved Slam Siblings Experience, a visual sonnet about previous Oakland A’s legends Jose Canseco and Imprint McGwire. That late spring, The Desolate Island set out on their very first live visit, right away selling out scenes across the US and drawing the absolute greatest hordes of the end of the week at the Bonnaroo Celebration and Milwaukee’s Summerfest.
Schaffer created the film Palm Springs, which appeared on Hulu in July 2020 and conveyed the biggest opening end of the week viewership ever for a film on the stage. Preceding sending off on Hulu, NEON/Hulu obtained the film for an unrivaled $17,500,000.69 at the 2020 Sundance Film Celebration, making it the greatest arrangement in the celebration’s set of experiences. Most as of late, the film and cast were designated for five Super Pundits Decision Grants, a Brilliant Globe Grant selection for Best Picture, Melodic or Satire, as well as a Best Execution by an Entertainer in a Movie, Melodic or Parody selection for Samberg. The film likewise won a Pundits’ Decision Film Grants in the classification of Best Satire and gathered a Scholars Organization of America Grant selection for Best Unique Screenplay.
Schaffer likewise chief delivers Hulu’s Emmy named show, PEN15, featuring Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle. Schaffer coordinated the Disney film Chip ‘n Dale: Salvage Officers. The film stars Andy Samberg and John Mulaney and is a blend of true to life and PC movement. It was delivered in Spring 2022.
Some of Schaffer Acting Credits
Movies
♦ 2007 – Hot Rod
♦ 2008 – Extreme Movie
♦ 2012 – The Watch
♦ 2016 – Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
♦ 2017 – Brigsby Bear
♦ 2020 – I Used to Go Here
♦ 2020 – Palm Springs
♦ 2022 – Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers
♦ 2025 – The Naked Gun
TV Shows
♦ 2005–2011 – Saturday Night Live
♦ 2014-2018 – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
♦ 2016 – Party Over Here
♦ 2017 – The Gorburger Show
♦ 2017–2019 – I’m Sorry
♦ 2018 – Alone Together
♦ 2019–2023 – I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
♦ 2019 – The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience
♦ 2019–2021 – PEN15