Remember our previous blog-posts here on Boing Boing about The Lonely Island guys who were recently hired on Saturday Night Live? Well, this Saturday night is the opening night of the 31st SNL season, and I filed a story for Wired News about the long internet road that led to forthcoming TV debut of "the three dudes".
Live from New York, it's — three comic talents who first made a name for themselves on the internet.
Andy Samberg will become a performing member of Saturday Night Live's 31st season cast debuting Oct. 1, while Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer have joined the show as writers.
But all three got their first big break online, thanks in part to the viral popularity of video shorts they released on the net.
In a move that may have helped fuel rapid grass-roots distribution, the comics released their work under Creative Commons licenses, which essentially let anyone copy a given work for free provided that person doesn't try to profit from it.
Link (Thanks, Macki!)
