SNL "Lazy Sunday" Hip-Hop Video is Da' Bizzomb!

We rarely bother to watch the long-running weekly NBC sketch-comedy show Saturday Night Live anymore. But we were at home on the night of Saturday, December 17, and in our channel surfing we checked in on SNL for old times sake.

What we stumbled upon was one of the more memorable SNL moments we've seen in years -- it was a music video for a hip-hop tune called "Lazy Sunday," in which a couple of MCs rhyme about a series of mundane errands while on their mission to catch a screening of the new movie "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" in New York City. The rappers are not anyone you'd know from the world of hip-hop. The MCs were cast members -- SNL veteran Chris Parnell and newcomer Andy Samberg.

The song is funny because of Parnell and Samberg's cliche hip-hop posturing and gangsta'-rap mugging. But the rhymes themselves are a laugh riot. While the duo talk about going to see "Chronicles of Narnia," they go on to rap about online map websites Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest and Google Maps ("Google Maps is the best / True dat, double true!!!"), buying snack food from a deli, and "macking" on cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery (a real bakery in the the West Village famous for its ultra-rich, creamy cupcakes). Best line from the song: "Whatchya' wanna do, Chris? / Snack-attack, Motherf#$%er!!!"

Since the broadcast, the song has had a second life on the Internet and become the latest Web video sensation with over a million downloads, radio airplay, apple iTunes listings, and an inspired line of t-shirts with quotes from the song.

Essential Linkage

"Lazy Sunday" Video [YouTube]
Saturday Night Live Web Site [NBC]
Nerds in the Hood, Stars on the Web [NY Times]

Posted by Robsam at December 30, 2005 11:31 AM