Akiva Schaffer Biography

Akiva D. Kiv Schaffer is an American writer for Saturday Night Live film director songwriter member of The Lonely Island and actor.
Schaffer directed co-wrote and edited the majority of the SNL Digital Shorts. He was the director of 'Lazy Sunday I Just Had Sex Natalie's Rap Dick in a Box Peyton Manning for the United Way Iran So Far Jizz in My Pants Boombox and sang with Samberg and T-Pain in I'm on a Boat. He also sang in The Creep with Samberg and Taccone. He also sang in Diaper Money and part of the call and response in We're Back!
Schaffer has directed four music videos for the band We Are Scientists and one for Eagles of Death Metal. Schaffer also directed and acted in the film Hot Rod starring Andy Samberg Jorma Taccone Bill Hader Danny McBride Isla Fisher Ian McShane and Sissy Spacek which was produced by SNL's Lorne Michaels. Schaffer was credited as an executive producer on the film MacGruber. The film was co-written and directed by Jorma Taccone.
After co-writing the MTV Movie Awards for two years with his Lonely Island collaborators Schaffer returned in 2009 to help co-produce the show which was hosted by Andy Samberg. His second feature film directorial project The Watch was released on July 27 2012.

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