Akiva Schaffer

Personal context

Summary

Akiva Schaffer is a filmmaker and comedian, and a founding member of The Lonely Island. His work includes Saturday Night Live digital shorts, Hot Rod, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, and Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers, with comedy often built around absurdity, parody, and crude humor. In discussing The Lonely Island’s rap parodies, he said the group tried to consider how the material would read if they were black performers. No public advocacy, affiliations, or statements promoting identity politics, DEI, or partisan causes are on record.