10 Great Movies Starring The Brooklyn Nine-Nine Cast

10. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Andy Samberg made his name on Saturday Night Live, but more specifically as a part of The Lonely Island, his group which, alongside Jorma Taccome and Akiva Schaffer, made some of the venerable sketch show’s most enduring skits in modern times. Their 2016 mock doc Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping stands among their finest achievements.

The premise is a simple one, charting the rise and fall of Samberg’s Conner Friel, a Justin Bieber/Timberlake style child pop star turned teen heartthrob, but while the premise is less than massively original, the Lonely Island gang’s observational comedy goes so much deeper than that of their contemporaries.

One of the few comedies with its finger genuinely on the pulse, Popstar is a fantastic send up of both the music biz and modern reality TV, spoofing the output of TMZ et al, as well as the likes of Mackelmore (the spoof of “Same Love” is a highlight), and the film’s sole aim is to provide laughs, which is so rarely the case these days.

With a great supporting cast of comedians including Tim Meadows and Maya Rudolph (as well as a Chelsea Peretti cameo), this was a commercial flop but instant cult hit.