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Bonus: Jorma Taccone and Chaka

Bonus: Jorma Taccone and Chaka

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Tonight, we have a special bonus episode for you, a
commercial-free interview with a very talented writer, director,
and performer who has actually worn a sophisticated ape-like
costume for a Hollywood feature film and lived to tell about it.
You may know Jorma Taccone from the wildly popular comedy trio,
“The Lonely Island.” Along with Andy Samberg and Akiva Shaffer,
the three have gone on to produce some of the most memorable and
hilarious “Digital Shorts” for Saturday Night Live and their
feature films, comedy albums and live performances have garnered
them millions of fans. But what you may not know about Jorma is
that he portrayed the loveably goofy primate-like character
“Chaka” for the 2009 film “Land of the Lost,” inspired by the
original 1974 children’s television series. While you might think
hopping around in a monkey suit for a movie would be fun
(certainly Jorma thought so at first) it turns out the
hours-long, daily application of the Special Effects makeup was
mind-numbingly tedious, and the performance while wearing it was
physically grueling and exhausting. We’ll hear from Jorma about
his experience with a professional, expensive, skin-tight
costume, some funny anecdotes about shooting the movie, and his
thoughts on the appearance of the creature from the
Patterson-Gimlin Film. As many experts have stated, if the
subject in the PGF was actually just a man in a costume, that
costume was one of the best that’s ever been made.

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