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Featured era: 2005
Lazy Sunday
“Cupcakes, MapQuest and a Sunday matinee of Narnia.”
- Featured era
- 2005
- Peak era
- 2005-2006
- Company
- The Lonely Island for Saturday Night Live
- Category
- Viral Videos
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The Lonely Island's "Lazy Sunday" SNL Digital Short
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About This Video
- From:
- Saturday Night Live
- Added:
- August 16, 2013
- Length:
- 2:54
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What Was It?
"Lazy Sunday" is a rap song and short film by the comedy troupe The Lonely Island. Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell adopt brash hardcore-rapper personas, but their big plan for the day is a matinee of The Chronicles of Narnia, with cupcakes from the Magnolia Bakery, directions from MapQuest and snacks smuggled into the cinema.
Samberg, Parnell, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone wrote it in one night, recorded it in the troupe's office and shot the video around Manhattan with a borrowed camera. It premiered on Saturday Night Live on December 17, 2005, as the troupe's second Digital Short.
Fans posted bootleg copies on YouTube, which had launched only five months earlier, and it became the first TV clip to go viral there. NBC had the copies removed in February 2006, but by then the short had shown what YouTube could be.
Things You Probably Forgot
- Magnolia Bakery cupcakes
- Looking up directions on MapQuest
- Smuggling snacks into a Narnia matinee
- Bootleg copies on a five-month-old YouTube
The Story
- 2005 "Lazy Sunday" premiered on Saturday Night Live on December 17.
- 2006 NBC asked YouTube in February to remove all unofficial copies.
- 2012 Samberg and Parnell reunited for "Lazy Sunday 2" on May 19.
- 2013 The official Saturday Night Live YouTube channel uploaded the short in August.
Its Legacy
The official Saturday Night Live channel uploaded the short in August 2013, and that is the copy embedded here. It is widely credited as a tipping point for YouTube's success and a boost for Saturday Night Live.
Memories
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