Taccone Biography
Jorma Taccone is an Actor, comedian, writer, and director from the United States. He is a member of the sketch comedy group The Lonely Island, along with Akiva Schaffer and boyhood friend Andy Samberg. Taccone made his directing debut in 2010 with the SNL spinoff picture MacGruber, which he also co-wrote and directed. Alongside Schaffer, he co-wrote and co-acted in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a musical comedy, in which he also directed. The film starred Samberg and Schaffer.
How old is Taccone? – Age
Born Jorma Christopher Taccone, the co-writter and directer of the SNL is 47 years old as of 19 March 2024. He was born in 1977 in Berkeley, California, United States.
Taccone Family – Education
He was born to Suellen Ehnebuske and Tony Taccone, the creative director of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. His father is Puerto Rican by birth and half Italian. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he earned a theater BA in 2000. As part of his degree studies, he studied for one semester at the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom. Asa, his brother, plays with the band Electric Guest. He bears the name of the renowned guitarist for Jefferson Airplane, Jorma Kaukonen.
Taccone Wife – Children
He met his wife American director, screenwriter and actress Marielle Heller at UCLA while studying acting. The couple has a daughter, born in August 2020 and a son born December 2014. The scores for Can You Ever Forgive Me? and The Diary of a Teenage Girl were written by his brother-in-law, musician Nate. Emily Heller, his sister-in-law, writes for the HBO comedy Barry and performs stand-up comedy.
Taccone Net Worth
Jorma has an estimated net worth of $7 million.
Taccone Height
The actir stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).
Taccone Brooklyn Nine-Nine
In Season One of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he directed the show. He made an appearance in Coral Palms Pt. 1 in Season Four.Frank’s Fun Zone is run by Taylor. His overly carefree demeanor belies his admiration for Holt’s straightforward recommendations to upgrade the workplace, such as requiring employees to report for duty at nine in the morning and installing sinks in the restrooms.
Holt (Greg) approaches Taylor (Jake) at Coral Palms Pt. 1 asking to be promoted to Assistant Manager. Greg’s interest in management and his seeming stoner persona are initially disregarded by Holt. Conversely, Greg’s enthusiasm in leadership responsibilities and his diligent demeanor surprise Taylor.When Taylor reveals that Larry will be the new assistant manager, Jake takes on the role of Larry and begins introducing himself to the staff as well as his management philosophy.
Greg is acknowledged by Taylor, who calls him “such a Rasta” and discloses that Greg was a stoner. Greg receives a promotion to assistant manager and commendation from Taylor for “killing it as assistant manager”. In addition, he brings up Greg’s apparent drug use, saying that Holt ought to cut back on his drug use in order to preserve Greg’s “stony vibe.” In Coral Palms Pt. 3, Jake consents to close the Fun Zone for the day after bringing up Greg’s connection to the management of the facility.
Taccone
In the fall of 2005, Samberg, Taccone, and Schaffer joined the staff of NBC’s late-night variety show Saturday Night Live. Since then, as The Lonely Island, they have created more than 100 SNL Digital Shorts including the YouTube favorites “Lazy Sunday” (featuring Chris Parnell), “Jizz in My Pants”, “I’m on a Boat” (featuring T-Pain) and the Emmy-winning “Dick in a Box” (featuring Justin Timberlake). Taccone produces much of the music for The Lonely Island, including “Lazy Sunday”, “Dick in a Box”, and many other tracks that appear on The Lonely Island first album, Incredibad, released in February 2009. As a director, he is responsible for the SNL shorts “MacGruber”, “Business Meeting”, “Sloths”, “Giraffes”, and others. He also directed a “MacGruber” Pepsi commercial spot for the 43rd Super Bowl, which aired February 1, 2009.
In 2007, Taccone co-starred in Paramount’s Hot Rod (starring Andy Samberg, directed by Akiva Schaffer). He is one of the principal actors in the music video “Jizz in My Pants” too. He played Guy #2 in “We Like Sportz”, reprising the role from “Just 2 Guyz”, and the lead role of Brett in The Lonely Island’s The ‘Bu, the group’s record-breaking contribution to Channel 101, where he played a ninja who did not belong. The ‘Bu, a parody of The OC, also starred Sarah Chalke as Melissa and Andy Samberg as Aaron. In the group’s first Channel 101 show, “ITV Buzz Countdown”, he played Chris Hoffman, a fictional VJ in a parody of MTV’s Total Request Live.
Taccone made a cameo appearance in Role Models as Mitch from Graphics, where he sang a karaoke version of the Scorpions’ “Rock You Like a Hurricane”; and co-starred in the Gnarls Barkley music video for the song “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”.
Taccone appeared as Chaka in Universal’s 2009 film Land of the Lost (starring Will Ferrell), for which he was nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor. In August 2009, he directed his first film, an adaptation of the Saturday Night Live sketch MacGruber that was featured as part of the group male vocals on Lightspeed Champion’s album Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You. As of SNL’s 36th season, he was no longer cited in the end credits, though he was still listed on the NBC website as a writer and holds the unofficial title of “Sexiest Member of Lonely Island”. However, according to the band’s website, thelonelyisland.com, “the Dudes” were still responsible for the SNL Digital Shorts. It was later confirmed Taccone had left Saturday Night Live, though he worked on some shorts in the 36th season.
Taccone acted in season 5 of MyDamnChannel’s Wainy Days and is the director of the AT&T Wireless television ad campaign It’s Not Complicated. He also had a recurring role on the HBO show Girls as the character Booth Jonathan. In 2015, Taccone appeared in the Kickstarter short movie Kung Fury as Adolf Hitler (A.K.A. Kung-Führer). He will play this role again in the sequel Kung Fury 2. Taccone hosts The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast with Samberg, Schaffer and Seth Meyers, which discusses The Lonely Island’s SNL Digital Shorts.
Book
Little Fox and the Wild Imagination, a children’s book written by Taccone and drawn by Dan Santat, was released in 2020.
Taccone Movies and TV Shows Credits
He has appeared in several films including;
♦ 2004 – 2004 MTV Movie Awards
♦ 2005 – 2005 MTV Movie Awards
♦ 2005–2014 – Saturday Night Live
♦ 2011–2013 – Parks and Recreation
♦ 2012 – Up All Night
♦ 2013 – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
♦ 2016 – Party Over Here
♦ 2017 – The Gorburger Show
♦ 2017–2019 – I’m Sorry
♦ 2018 – Alone Together
♦ 2018–2019 – The Last O.G.
♦ 2019 – Miracle Workers
♦ 2019–2021 – PEN15
♦ 2019– – I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
♦ 2021 – MacGruber
♦ 2024 – Knuckles
TV Shows
♦ 2008 – Role Models
♦ 2009 – Land of the Lost
♦ 2012 – The Watch
♦ 2013 – Grown Ups 2
♦ 2014 – The Lego Movie
♦ 2015 – Kung Fury
♦ 2016 – Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
♦ 2017 – It Happened in L.A.
♦ 2018 – Rampage
♦ 2019 – The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
♦ 2020 – An American Pickle
♦ 2022 – Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers
♦ 2023 – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
♦ 2024 – Sonic the Hedgehog 3