Andy Samberg

The Lonely Island came first. Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone had been making comedy together since childhood and arrived at Saturday Night Live in 2005 as a unit, carrying a format nobody at the show was using: pre-taped digital shorts, cut fast, usually built around a song. He stayed seven years, and those shorts became the thing people actually watched SNL for on Monday morning.

As a performer his instrument is enthusiasm. He plays men whose confidence is entirely unearned and completely sincere, which is why Jake Peralta worked for the full run of Brooklyn Nine-Nine: the character is a show-off, and Samberg plays the need underneath the showing off rather than the swagger on top of it. The Golden Globe for that arrived early, in 2013. He also holds an Emmy for original music and lyrics, which is the Lonely Island half of the ledger.

The films are deliberately mixed. He has led the Hotel Transylvania and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs series, which pay for everything else, and co-wrote Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a pop-star mockumentary that almost nobody saw on release and is now the group's best work. Palm Springs is the outlier and the most important thing on the list: a comedy about a time loop that is genuinely sad, and the first proof that he can carry a serious idea without dropping the register.