Feb 05, 2016
The motherlovers are back.
Returning to a familiar Saturday night time slot, comedic group the Lonely Island will serve as executive producers for the new FOX television show, Party Over Here. The half-hour show will feature sketch comedy shorts that satirize topics ranging from pop culture to politics, as well as include “in-studio segments filmed in front of a live audience at the Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles,” according to a FOX press release.
This announcement from FOX comes seven years after the cancellation of MADtv, the network's previous sketch comedy show which also aired on Saturday nights. Ultimately, MADtv failed to compete against NBC’s Saturday Night Live, where members of the Lonely Island, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, gained their popularity.
Now the trio and FOX prepare to take on SNL once more with the help of executive-producer Paul Scheer (The League) and comedians Nicole Byer (Girl Code), Jessica McKenna (Riot), and Alison Rich (former SNL writer). Party Over Here is set to air a half-hour before SNL at 11 p.m. starting March 12.
In a statement this week the Lonely Island weighed in, “When we first conceived this idea, we thought of it as a spinoff of Empire. We failed miserably … now it’s much more of a sketch comedy show.”
The Lonely Island's last release, The Wack Album, was issued in 2013. We shall wait and see if the new show brings us more entertaining material produced by the group.
Image: The Lonely Island