David Andrew “Andy” Samberg (born August 18, 1978) is an American stand-up comic, and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. He is a repertory player on Saturday Night Live and has appeared on Premium Blend and Arrested Development, as well as Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the Daily Show With Jon Stewart, and the Late Show with David Letterman. Samberg played the lead role in the 2007 film Hot Rod. He also provides the voice of Ham III in the 2008 animated film Space Chimps. ok ok that is all taken from wikipedia, but for real. dude is hilarious in Hot Rod, even if it was sort of a Napoleon Dynamite II. Not sure any Jewish kid should be singing about such narishkeit, but the video is really funny. Plus, if the FCC played it on NBC, why can’t we (that rhymes, btw)
Shemspeed is an independent recording label and promotional agency highlighting cross-over music artists with positive and unifying messages. Founded by Erez Safar, an American-Israeli DJ/Producer, Shemspeed promotes over 15 dynamic artists representing a wide range of genres including hip-hop, reggae, and rock. These artists include Y-Love (revolutionary Jewish hip-hop), Diwon (Yemenite / Sephardic hip-hop, Israeli music and more), DeScribe (soul-awakening dancehall, hip-hop, & soul), and Electro Morocco (Israeli rock, dance music.) Shemspeed artists, collectively showcasing the diversity in world Jewish music, have performed with musicians as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Shemspeed’s mission is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we add a public Jewish voice to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative and collaborative bridge-building.
