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An SNL Digital Short is one in a series of comedic and often musical video shorts created for NBC's Saturday Night Live. The origin of the Digital Short brand is credited to staff writer Adam McKay,[1] who created content for the show in collaboration with SNL hosts, writers, and cast members. The popularity of these segments exploded following the addition of The Lonely Island (Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, and Andy Samberg) to the show, and it is to them that credit is given for ushering SNL "into the age of digital online content in a time when it needed to tap into that relevance more than ever."[2] The Lonely Island's digital shorts were originally recorded with consumer grade digital video cameras and edited on personal computers.[3] It is typical for the show's hosts and musical guests to take part in that week's Digital Short (the latter on rarer occasions), and several shorts have included appearances by celebrities who were not scheduled to appear in any of that episode's live sketches.
The shorts generally took fewer than five days to complete.[4] Schaffer directed a majority of them, with Taccone as occasional director or co-director. Taccone also produced music for the shorts as necessary, along with his brother, Asa.
Following Samberg's departure from SNL in 2012, it was speculated that the era of videos branded "An SNL Digital Short" had come to an end.[5] A total of six new Digital Shorts from The Lonely Island have aired since then: two that featured the episode's respective hosts (Adam Levine in Season 38[6] and Natalie Portman in Season 43); two that aired when Samberg hosted the Season 39 finale in 2014; one created for the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special in February 2015 (featuring Samberg & Adam Sandler); and one that aired during the Season 41 finale in May 2016 to promote The Lonely Island's feature film, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
List of shorts
2005–2006: Season 31
A total of 11 SNL Digital Shorts were created for the 2005–2006 season.
Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | Description |
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Lettuce | Will Forte[7] | Akiva Schaffer[7] | December 3, 2005 | In what is revealed to be a commercial for the vegetable, two friends (Forte, Andy Samberg) discuss the death of an unnamed friend while taking large bites out of heads of lettuce. Written and filmed in November 2005 and originally cut after airing during the dress rehearsal of the Eva Longoria episode. |
Lazy Sunday | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone Chris Parnell[8] |
Akiva Schaffer[8] | December 17, 2005 | Parnell and Samberg perform rap about going out to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on a typical Sunday, while also getting themselves food and acing the pre-film trivia questions. The short became a viral video online. Music produced by Jorma Taccone.[8] |
Young Chuck Norris | Harper Steele[9] | Akiva Schaffer | January 21, 2006 | A Chuck Norris fan (Jason Sudeikis) sings a rock ballad about the action star (Samberg) before he became famous. There are cameos by Fred Armisen as a criminal mugging a woman, played by Amy Poehler, and Taccone as a man being robbed by Bill Hader. |
The Tangent | Bill Hader[10] | Akiva Schaffer[10] | February 4, 2006 | Joel (Armisen) rambles endlessly about a restaurant he visited to his friend Liz (Kristen Wiig) at first, and becomes so involved in the story that he fails to notice that he is discovered by talent scouts (Hader, Parnell), stars in a movie with Scarlett Johansson, becomes a national phenomenon, and then loses it all when his movie flops at the box office. Brian Williams, MTV correspondent Gideon Yago, and Conan O'Brien also make cameo appearances.
This short was filmed the week of the Johansson episode, but was cut after dress rehearsal from both that episode and the Peter Sarsgaard episode before finally airing on the Steve Martin/Prince episode. |
Close Talkers | Will Forte[11] | Akiva Schaffer[11] | Two old friends from school (Forte, Steve Martin) meet up after years apart, greeting each other loudly while standing with their faces only an inch apart. | |
Natalie's Rap[12] | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone Asa Taccone[13] |
Akiva Schaffer[13] | March 4, 2006 | Natalie Portman is interviewed about her life and responds with a rap proving she is a "badass bitch", poking fun at her clean and intellectual image. She slaps Seth Meyers and throws a chair at Parnell. Samberg appears as Carl, a character dressed as Flavor Flav. Music produced by Jorma Taccone and Asa Taccone, and mixed by Ben Lovett.[13] |
Doppleganger | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone[14] |
Akiva Schaffer[14] | March 11, 2006 | Meyers, Forte, and Samberg are on a lunch break and start to notice that each one has a doppelgänger nearby. After Meyers and Forte say that a large bum (Horatio Sanz) is Samberg's doppelgänger, they kill the real Samberg in an evil twin scenario. |
Laser Cats! | Andy Samberg Lorne Michaels Bill Hader[15] |
Akiva Schaffer[15] | April 15, 2006 | In a frame story, Hader and Samberg pitch their new ultra low-budget Digital Short, Laser Cats! to SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels. In the Laser Cats! short itself (a short within a short), Hader and Samberg play the heroes Nitro and Admiral Spaceship in a post-nuclear war world in which cats can shoot lasers from their mouths and are used as weapons. They are saving the princess (Lindsay Lohan) from the evil Robotron (Will Forte). Rachel Dratch makes an appearance, disguising herself as the princess/Lohan. Jorma Taccone appears in the opening credits for Laser Cats!. Fred Armisen also makes a cameo. Laser Cats! is shot in the SNL offices with gleeful haphazardness because, according to Samberg in the special Saturday Night Live in the 2000s, “it’s supposed to suck.” |
My Testicles | Unknown | Akiva Schaffer | May 6, 2006 | Friends in the early 1990s (Kenan Thompson, Forte, and Parnell) discuss the music video by pop stars Ariel (Samberg) and Efrim (Tom Hanks), where we see the lyrics consist of constantly begging for their testicles not to be harmed, in a parody of Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" and C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat". Armisen plays the guitar player, Taccone appears as a backup dancer, and Poehler and Maya Rudolph are women in the video. |
Peyote | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone Will Forte |
May 13, 2006 | A distraught man (Samberg), pressed against the side of a building, threatens to jump to his death. A second man (Forte), using a bullhorn, tries to talk him out of it. After a bit of dialogue, it is revealed that the distraught man is safely on the ground and his friend is kneeling mere inches away from him. The short ends after it is revealed to be a commercial for peyote.
Peyote was written and filmed after Lettuce had aired, making it the second SNL Digital Short made by The Lonely Island. It was deemed "too similar" to Lettuce to be aired right away, however, so the group produced Lazy Sunday to showcase other aspects of their comedic range.[16] | |
Andy Walking | Andy Samberg | May 20, 2006 | Samberg asks factual questions of passers-by outside NBC Studios in the style of the Jay Leno bit Jaywalking, instead laughing off correct answers as false. John Lutz (a then-writer for SNL) makes a cameo as a man walking that Andy ridicules. |
2006–2007: Season 32
A total of 12 SNL Digital Shorts were created for the 2006–2007 season.
Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | Description |
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Cubicle Fight | John Lutz Bill Hader |
Akiva Schaffer | September 30, 2006 | New office employee Gary (Bill Hader) gets into a fight to the death with incumbent cubicle holder Steve (episode host Dane Cook). Jason Sudeikis appears as the boss and Andy Samberg, Will Forte, Fred Armisen, Kenan Thompson, Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig are other employees cheering on the fight. |
Harpoon Man | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
October 21, 2006 | Harpoon Man (episode host John C. Reilly), a suave action hero and parody of Shaft, tracks down an insulting announcer dressed as a whale (Samberg), who is narrating his life in a theme song. There are appearances by Jorma Taccone, who plays a man getting robbed, and Bill Hader, who plays the man robbing Taccone. | |
Pep Talk | Fred Armisen John Lutz[17] |
December 9, 2006 | A fast food boss (Armisen) gives his employees (Forte, Matthew Fox, Poehler, Samberg, Thompson) a pep talk and has trouble controlling his anger until one of his employees (Forte) comes in late. It originally was scheduled to air on the episode hosted by Matthew Fox (which explains his appearance), but ended up airing on the following episode hosted by Annette Bening. | |
Dick in a Box[18] | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
December 16, 2006 | A Christmas song about two men (Justin Timberlake and Samberg) giving their lovers (Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph) a box with their genitalia inside as presents, in a style reminiscent of early 1990s R&B sex ballads made popular by acts such as Bell Biv Devoe, Color Me Badd, and R. Kelly. Won a 2007 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Music and Lyrics. Music created in part by Asa Taccone, Jorma Taccone and Katreese Barnes. It was the first official single from The Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad.[19] | |
Laser Cats! 2 | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone Bill Hader |
January 13, 2007 | In the same frame-story format, Hader and Samberg apologize to Lorne Michaels for the original Laser Cats! claiming to understand where they went wrong: not enough politics. They then introduce Laser Cats! 2, based on the same premise, now set in the Iraq War which has gone nuclear and caused the feline mutations. This time, Dr. Scientist (Jake Gyllenhaal) has stolen the cure that turns Laser Cats back into regular cats. Jorma Taccone appears in the opening credits for Laser Cats! 2 (Which is the same as Laser Cats!), and Fred Armisen and Amy Poehler are the scientists who created the cure. | |
Nurse Nancy | Matt Murray | January 20, 2007 | Scott Garbaciak (Samberg) is the multi-role star in a commercial for the fictional film Nurse Nancy, in parody of Eddie Murphy films such as Norbit and The Nutty Professor. | |
Body Fuzion [20] | Amy Poehler Maya Rudolph Kristen Wiig[21] |
February 3, 2007 | Drew Barrymore is Desiree, host of a 1986 sexually suggestive, low-impact, high-result exercise video Body Fuzion, with "her friends" Donna, Michelle, and Donna M. (Rudolph, Wiig, and Poehler respectively). | |
Andy Popping Into Frame | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
February 10, 2007 | Samberg quietly pops into view as the camera cuts to different locations and landmarks. Forte begins doing the same, before being forced out by Samberg at gunpoint. Samberg wears his "Andy" shirt from the failed sketch show Awesometown created by The Lonely Island. | |
Business Meeting | Jorma Taccone Seth Meyers |
Jorma Taccone | February 24, 2007 | A corporate executive (Rainn Wilson) leads a meeting to brainstorm ideas on how to save his failing company, fielding suggestions from an increasingly bizarre set of employees, including a gigantic turkey sub and musical guest Arcade Fire. Upon reaching the end of the meeting, Wilson receives a phone call, seemingly informing him that the office building is about to be blown up. The office building explodes, presumably killing all of the people inside. Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Will Forte, Darrell Hammond, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph and Andy Samberg all play employees of Wilson's, and Kenan Thompson plays a water delivery guy. |
The Shooting | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
Akiva Schaffer | April 14, 2007 | In a spoof of The O.C. episode "The Dearly Beloved", a man (Hader) writes a letter to his sister, he is shot by his friend (Samberg), leading to a series of overly dramatic, slow-motion shootings set to "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, including their roommate (Shia LaBeouf), the sister (Wiig), and two police officers (Sudeikis, Armisen). |
Roy Rules! | Andy Samberg
Jorma Taccone |
Jorma Taccone[22] | April 21, 2007 | Samberg performs a rhyme about how much he likes his brother in-law named Roy (SNL writer Bryan Tucker). |
Talking Dog | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
Akiva Schaffer | May 19, 2007 | While meeting the owner of an apartment (Zach Braff) that is available for sublet, a potential candidate (Samberg) is shocked to find out that the owner's dog (voiced by Taccone) not only can talk, but has fallen in love with him. He finds out later that the dog was using him to get a plate of ham. The owner implies that this happens regularly, but the dog convinces the man that it's still something more, and the man ends up French kissing the dog. |
2007–2008: Season 33
A total of 11 SNL Digital Shorts were created for the 2007–2008 season.
Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | Description |
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Iran So Far | Andy Samberg
Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
Akiva Schaffer | September 29, 2007 | Samberg sings a love song for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Armisen), along with Adam Levine from Maroon 5, sampling "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin, with a chorus based on the 1982 A Flock of Seagulls hit "I Ran (So Far Away)". Jake Gyllenhaal has a cameo, owing to the observation that Ahmadinejad looks like "a very hairy Jake Gyllenhaal". |
People Getting Punched Just Before Eating | Andy Samberg[23] | October 13, 2007 | In a style similar to the Season 32 Digital Short Andy Popping Into Frame, Samberg sneaks up on people and punches them just as they area about to start eating their respective foods, then gleefully dances afterwards. His victims include Forte, Armisen, Sudeikis, Taccone, episode host Jon Bon Jovi, and Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters. The victims, who have turned into zombies, show up en masse and chase Samberg around the world before breaking out into the Zombie Dance. The shorts ends with a close-up shot of Samberg's face above a graphic that reads, "Believe in Your Dreams". | |
Brian Diaries | Akiva Schaffer Brian Williams |
November 3, 2007 | Brian Williams describes his daily routine, which includes watching footage of himself, meditating while the disembodied head of Bono praises him, and dropping pennies out a window onto Al Roker and Matt Lauer during The Today Show. | |
Grandkids in the Movies | Andy Samberg
Akiva Schaffer |
February 23, 2008 | An old man presents a series of DVDs that are designed to help old people feel more at ease while watching today's films by having his grandsons (Hader and Samberg) digitally inserted in the films. Featuring clips from No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Juno, Transformers (referred to as "The Transforming Robots"), and There Will Be Blood. | |
The Mirror | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer |
March 1, 2008 | A girl (Elliot Page) wakes up from a nightmare and begins seeing a zombie (Samberg) in her bathroom mirror, which turns out to be the nightmare of the zombie, a wolf man (Forte), and a woman named Debbie (Wiig) who is married to Dracula (Sudeikis). After several nightmares, the camera returns to Page waking up from a nightmare, and as the short ends, the zombie pops up at their bedside. | |
Hero Song | March 8, 2008 | An apparently wealthy man (Samberg) sings about crime infecting the city, then turns into a superhero (à la Batman) and tries to save a woman (Amy Adams) from being mugged, only to have the mugger (Sudeikis) beat him to death. | ||
Andy's Dad | Andy Samberg
Akiva Schaffer |
March 15, 2008 | Episode host Jonah Hill confesses to Samberg that he has fallen in love with his father, Ben Samberg (played by longtime SNL writer Jim Downey). Hader also confesses the same thing. | |
Laser Cats! 3D | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer |
April 5, 2008 | Samberg and Hader interrupt Lorne Michaels' dinner with Christopher Dodd (appearing as himself) to attempt to pitch Laser Cats! again, this time with a scene enhanced by 3D glasses. The plot revolves around a ban on all laser cats and a battle against the corrupt Mayor Top-Hat (Thompson). Christopher Walken appears as a general. | |
Daiquiri Girl | April 12, 2008 | Samberg appears in an amateur, early-90s music video about a girl who loves to drink daiquiris. Meanwhile, text scrolls up the screen explaining that the producers apologize for airing the video because a certain musical guest (Gnarls Barkley) failed to appear for the shooting of a digital short, despite an agreement to do otherwise. | ||
Best Look in the World | May 10, 2008 | Samberg and host Shia LaBeouf sing a high-energy country song for an infomercial about Samberg's new dress shirt, black socks, no pants look (the best look in the world). Armisen, Forte, Thompson, Sudeikis, and Hader all appear as people following the trend (a dad, a husband, two cops, and an illiterate genie). | ||
The Japanese Office | John Lutz Marika Sawyer[24] |
Akiva Schaffer[24] | May 17, 2008 | Ricky Gervais presents a clip from a Japanese show that was his inspiration for The Office, featuring Japanese versions of Michael (Steve Carell), Dwight (Hader), Jim (Sudeikis), Pam (Wiig), and Stanley (Thompson). Additionally, Darrell Hammond plays Regis Philbin in a tampon commercial. At the end of the episode, Gervais comments "It's funny 'cause it's racist." |
2008–2009: Season 34
A total of 17 SNL Digital Shorts were created for the 2008–2009 season.
Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | Description |
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Space Olympics | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
Akiva Schaffer | September 13, 2008 | Samberg, dressed in a white pompadour wig and spangled jumpsuit, sings a song promoting a low-budget, ill-planned, ultimately doomed athletic competition held in space in the year 3022. Athletes are portrayed by Sudeikis, Casey Wilson, Hader, and episode host Michael Phelps. |
Hey! (Murray Hill) | Akiva Schaffer
Jorma Taccone |
Jorma Taccone | September 20, 2008 | In this spoof of teen dramas, a young man (James Franco) is talked to by a girl (Kristen Wiig). Some small talk is made, until the subject of his small "ding-dong" comes up. Then another girl (an uncredited cameo by future season 35 host Blake Lively) comes up to him and tells him she has a small "ding-dong", too. |
Extreme Activities Challenge | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
Akiva Schaffer | October 4, 2008 | Samberg and Wiig compete in nonsensical activities, from arm wrestling to human ATM. Forte is the pathetic referee, Thompson is an ATM customer, and Anne Hathaway appears when Samberg wins the "become Jane" (Austen) challenge. |
Jam the Vote | Unknown | October 23, 2008 | Samberg walks around New York City asking people if they're registered to vote, which Wiig's character points out had ended two weeks prior. Meanwhile, Samberg also fights back vomiting a spicy hot dog he stole. (Aired with the official "An SNL Digital Short" title card during the third episode of the show's limited-run series Weekend Update Thursday.) | |
Ras Trent | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
October 25, 2008 | Samberg plays a college student legalist who has converted to Rastafari, who sings boastfully (and stereotypically) about the culture, while being aware that he is not fit for it when he walks by a group of actual Rastas. Wiig and Wilson appear in the short as backup singers; the actual backup vocals were recorded by Joanna Newsom[25] and Maya Rudolph. Music produced by Sly & Robbie.[26] | |
Everyone's A Critic | Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
November 15, 2008 | In a clip from Paul Rudd's new movie, Samberg romantically paints him nude and then Rudd returns the favor (A parody of the film Titanic). While selling the painting at an auction, it is shown to be so graphic that everyone who sees it begins convulsing violently, vomiting, bleeding from the eyes, and committing violent acts of suicide. Fred Armisen appears as the auctioneer, Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood respectively (parodying the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark), and Casey Wilson as the interviewer.[27] | |
Virgania Horsen's Pony Express | Kristen Wiig | Akiva Schaffer | December 6, 2008 | Kristen Wiig reprises her role as Virgania Horsen in a crudely made commercial for her new business, which consists of mail delivery by horse. (The first short featuring Wiig in this role, Virgania Horsen’s Hot Air Balloon Rides, originally aired on February 23, 2008 without the official "An SNL Digital Short" title card.) |
Jizz in My Pants | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
Samberg and Taccone rap about their personal experiences with premature ejaculation, often at the slightest provocation. Schaffer plays the role of a DJ who mixes beats for the other two as they perform. Molly Sims, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and Justin Timberlake make cameo appearances. The third single from The Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad, and the first music video featuring all three members. | ||
Cookies | James Anderson Fred Armisen |
December 13, 2008 | A corporate executive (Hugh Laurie) announces to the department heads that things are not going well and drastic steps may need to be taken. As the others ask questions and fret about their futures, Marcus (Armisen) becomes increasingly distracting as he stretches himself out to reach a plate of cookies on the table. At the end of the skit, another executive (Thompson) reveals that the "cookies" are really laxatives. Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte, Bobby Moynihan, and Abby Elliott appear as the other department heads. | |
Doogie Howser Theme | Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
January 10, 2009 | Neil Patrick Harris and the entire SNL cast perform the theme to Doogie Howser, M.D.. Harris wears a tuxedo while everyone else is dressed as Doogie Howser in blonde wigs, lab coats with a picture ID of Doogie on them, dress shirts, colorful ties, acid washed jeans, and Nike hi-tops (Armisen and Samberg wear green sunglasses as well). Harris plays keyboard; Wilson, Elliott, and Michaela Watkins play violin; Moynihan plays tuba; Thompson plays harp; Hader plays saxophone; Hammond plays trumpet; Wiig plays electric guitar; Sudeikis plays double bass; Forte plays drum kit; Armisen plays synthesizer; and Samberg plays an Akai MPC 2000XL drum machine. At the end of the performance, Harris sheds a single tear. | |
A Couple of Homies | Andy Samberg
Akiva Schaffer |
January 17, 2009 | Samberg and Fred Armisen casually talk in a break room while Forte sings about every little thing that they're doing (giving each other a high five, reading magazines, drinking soda, and wearing dresses). At the end, it's revealed to actually be a commercial for the D.A.R.E. program. It was originally cut from the Ben Affleck dress rehearsal. | |
Laser Cats! 4 Ever | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
January 31, 2009 | Episode host Steve Martin walks into the office of Lorne Michaels and asks if he could air a short video that he and "some film people" made, which turns out to be yet another installment of Laser Cats!. It becomes evident that Samberg and Bill Hader have put Martin up to the task of presenting the short, crediting him as Executive Producer as well. A "half human, half Laser Cat, half RoboCop" named Cyber-Face (Kenan Thompson) is presented to a group of scientists by their colleague (Will Forte) but quickly goes haywire. Admiral Spaceship (Samberg) and Nitro (Hader) intervene to put an end to its killing spree, and are shocked to find out that Cyber-Face is Admiral Spaceship's estranged father (Martin) right before he is gunned down by police officers. Cyeber-Face apologizes for being a deadbeat dad and reveals that Spaceship and Nitro are brothers before self-destructing. Michaels kicks everyone out of his office in disgust. | |
I'm on a Boat | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
February 7, 2009 | Samberg wins a prize from a cereal box for a boat trip for three people and selects Schaffer and, to Taccone's surprise and dismay, T-Pain to join him. The short then cuts to the lucky trio performing an "aggressive" and expletive-laden rap about their boat ride (the word "fuck" is used 17 times), with occasional shots of Taccone having a miserable time back on land. The fourth single from The Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad. | |
Property of the Queen | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone | February 14, 2009 | Samberg blackmails the Jonas Brothers with a videotape of them as an '80s band called Property of the Queen. Samberg ultimately wants to know how they stayed young for 25 years and it is revealed that the wizard featured in one of their music videos (Bill Hader) kept them young. Kenan Thompson, Will Forte, and Bobby Moynihan appear as band members. |
Party Guys | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone Bill Hader |
Akiva Schaffer | March 14, 2009 | Samberg and Hader are at a party where everyone and everything is a literal representation of a slang term (i.e., a "serial rapist" (Forte) is shown having sex with a box of cereal, a group of "motherfuckers" are men with their mothers, a group of "sons of bitches" are a litter of puppies, a "numbnuts" is a man (John Lutz) shown sitting on a block of ice with his pants around his ankles, a group of "jokers" are dressed as different incarnations of The Joker from The Dark Knight, a knucklehead is a hand with plastic eyes glued on it, etc.). When Samberg and Hader discover "two douchebags", however, it's revealed that they're looking at themselves in a mirror. |
Like a Boss | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
April 4, 2009 | During a performance review conducted by episode host Seth Rogen, Samberg raps about his typical day as the boss of a large company. The first few activities he names are what one might expect, such as approving memos and micromanaging his staff (John Mulaney). His actions become increasingly erratic, however, after a subordinate (Kristin Wiig) rejects his advances and he is consequently denied a promotion. The boss's description ends with him turning into a jet, crashing into the sun, and dying. Rogen leaves the performance review in apparent disgust as Samberg repeatedly reminds him, "I'm the boss." The fifth single from The Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad, Rogen's voice replaces Schaffer's as the company evaluator, though Schaffer does appear in the short as a hooded gun dealer. Taccone also makes a cameo appearance as the man who hands Samberg a notice about a harassment lawsuit filed by Wiig. Additional cameos from Bobby Moynihan, Casey Wilson, SNL writer Paula Pell, Jason Sudeikis, and Bill Hader. |
Motherlover | Andy Samberg
Akiva Schaffer |
Akiva Schaffer | May 9, 2009 | Five months after the events of "Dick in a Box," Samberg and Timberlake's characters (who have just been released from prison) sing about special gifts for Mother's Day, with Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson appearing as their mothers. They decide the best present for them would be for them to have sex with the other's mother. They proclaim it is the second best idea they have ever had. The song was originally omitted from sessions for the album Incredibad, as produced by Asa Taccone and Drew Campbell.[28] The fourth single from The Lonely Island's second album, Turtleneck & Chain. |
2009–2010: Season 35
A total of 19 SNL Digital Shorts were created for the 2009–2010 season.
Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | Description |
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The Date | Will Forte
John Solomon[30] |
John Solomon [30] | September 26, 2009 | A man (Forte) with a strained voice discusses his life commanding a SWAT team and raising lambs for slaughter with an increasingly fascinated date (Megan Fox). |
Megan's Roommate | Andy Samberg Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone |
Akiva Schaffer | Andy Samberg is brought home by Megan Fox, and meets her hostile roommate "Optimus Prime" (Moynihan), a man wearing a bathing robe and a mask of the Transformers character. Cameo by Brian Austin Green as "Bumblebee". | |
Threw It On The Ground | Akiva Schaffer[31] | October 3, 2009 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Digital_Shorts