Lazy Sunday

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"Lazy Sunday" title screen
"Lazy Sunday" title screen
For the single by Small Faces, see Lazy Sunday (song).

Lazy Sunday is a music video starring Saturday Night Live cast members Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg and airing on the December 17, 2005 episode of the show. It was the second SNL Digital Short to be aired. The film features Parnell and Samberg rapping about their desire to see the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and eating cupcakes (from the Magnolia Bakery).

The film paired Parnell, an eight-year veteran of SNL who had performed rap several times during Weekend Update, and Samberg, a first-year featured player with little previous screen time.

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[edit] Online availability

After the film aired, it was available for free download on iTunes. Additionally, it was posted to several Web sites and shared via e-mail. The film was viewed more than five million times at YouTube before NBC Universal asked the site to remove it, along with several other copyrighted NBC video clips, in February 2006.[1] NBC later placed the short on its SNL site.

[edit] Film production

Samberg's fellow members of The Lonely Island were involved in the making of the film. Akiva Schaffer directed the clip and Jorma Taccone created the musical beat. All three plus Parnell wrote the script on December 12, 2005, and the music was recorded the following day. On December 15, a crew filmed the short in about five hours using the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in the Chelsea district of Manhattan as a stand-in for a movie theater. Taccone's girlfriend's sister, Emily Heller, appears as a convenience store clerk.

Samberg, Taccone, Schaffer and Parnell auctioned an original copy of the Lazy Sunday lyrics, with two deleted verses, on eBay. The sale raised $430 for a charity for animal shelters.

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[edit] References in other media

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  • ESPN's Sportscenter hosts introduced a digital map with "Google Maps is the best/True dat, Double True", though it was not obtained via Google Maps. Stuart Scott commented on a slam dunk with "Mr. Pibb and Red Vines equals crazy delicious" on a later episode.
  • Stuart Scott commented on the Dallas Mavericks' streak of 14 wins in a row by saying, "Mavericks looking for their 2, no 6, no 12, baker's dozen plus one wins in a row..."
  • ?uestlove, the drummer for the band The Roots, used the phrase "Mr. Pibb and Red Vines = CRAZY DELICIOUS" as his thank you letter when he was awarded an Esquire Magazine Esky for Best Scribe in the magazine's 2006 music issue.
  • In VH1's The World Series of Pop Culture on July 20, there was a question asking, "In SNL's popular sketch "Lazy Sunday" rap, what two foods together equal "crazy delicious"? Neither team got the answer correct. (Answer: "Mr. Pibb and Red Vines.")
  • In an episode of The Office called "The Merger", Michael makes an orientation film called "Lazy Scranton" for the Stamford employees who were transferred to Scranton. Starring Michael and Dwight, the video uses the same music, rap style, and camera effects used in the "Lazy Sunday" video. In another episode, Kelly describes the video to Michael while waiting for a pretzel.
  • In the film Epic Movie, the character Captain Jack Swallows (a reference to Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) breaks out in a rap called 'Lazy Pirate Day'; the song is reminiscent of 'Lazy Sunday' both visually and musically. Swallows is played by Darrell Hammond, a long-time performer on Saturday Night Live.
  • Slate.com wrote an article stating "If you haven't seen Saturday Night Live's Chronicles of Narnia rap, then you don't have any friends. Or at least any friends with Internet access."

[edit] References

  1. ^ NBC nastygrams YouTube over "Lazy Sunday" - Boing Boing

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