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The viral success of the video is widely credited as having been the tipping-point for [[YouTube]]'s success,<ref>[http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/11/did-lazy-sunday-make-youtubes-1-5-billion-sale-possible.ars Did "Lazy Sunday" make YouTube's $1.5 billion sale possible?<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> as it spawned dozens of 'response videos'.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/arts/television/26cran.html</ref> These included a West Coast response by actor [[Mark Feuerstein]], an English response by comedian [[Sam Baron]], an Australian response about lawn bowls, as well as [[Lazy Muncie]] (which defended the honor of the Midwest) and [[Lazy Ramadi]] by two US Army [[SSG]]s based in [[Ramadi]], [[Iraq]].
The viral success of the video is widely credited as having been the tipping-point for [[YouTube]]'s success,<ref>[http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/11/did-lazy-sunday-make-youtubes-1-5-billion-sale-possible.ars Did "Lazy Sunday" make YouTube's $1.5 billion sale possible?<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> as it spawned dozens of 'response videos'.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/arts/television/26cran.html</ref> These included a West Coast response by actor [[Mark Feuerstein]], an English response by comedian [[Sam Baron]], an Australian response about lawn bowls, as well as [[Lazy Muncie]] (which defended the honor of the Midwest) and [[Lazy Ramadi]] by two US Army [[Staff sergeant#United States|SSG]]s based in [[Ramadi]], [[Iraq]].


In an episode of [[The Office (U.S. TV series)|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 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]].
In an episode of [[The Office (U.S. TV series)|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 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]].

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"Lazy Sunday"
Song

"Lazy Sunday", the second SNL Digital Short, aired on the December 17, 2005 episode of Saturday Night Live. It features cast members Chris Parnell, an eight-year veteran of SNL, and Andy Samberg a first-year featured player with little previous screen time. In this music video, Parnell and Samberg perform a nerdcore hip hop song about cannabis (Lyrically the word chronic, which is a slang term for marijuana, is used in the song as a form of word play in the chorus. It may also be a reference to Dr. Dre's The Chronic),[1] seeing the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and eating cupcakes from the Magnolia Bakery. The line "It's all about the Hamiltons" ($10 bills) is a spoof on the 1998 Puff Daddy hit single It's All about the Benjamins ($100 bills), then pushed further in saying "You can call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons". The song was released on the album Incredibad, along with other digital shorts by The Lonely Island.

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.[2] NBC later placed the short on its SNL site and Hulu.

Reception

Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "The hallowed genre of 'white dudes rapping about mundane stuff' reached new heights of hilarity with Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell's 2005 ode to an afternoon viewing of The Chronic—what!—cles of Narnia."[3]

Response Videos

The viral success of the video is widely credited as having been the tipping-point for YouTube's success,[4] as it spawned dozens of 'response videos'.[5] These included a West Coast response by actor Mark Feuerstein, an English response by comedian Sam Baron, an Australian response about lawn bowls, as well as Lazy Muncie (which defended the honor of the Midwest) and Lazy Ramadi by two US Army SSGs based in Ramadi, Iraq.

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 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.

See also

References

  1. ^ Instant Notoriety for a Rap Video From Saturday Night Live - New York Times
  2. ^ NBC nastygrams YouTube over "Lazy Sunday" - Boing Boing
  3. ^ Geier, Thom; Jensen, Jeff; Jordan, Tina; Lyons, Margaret; Markovitz, Adam; Nashawaty, Chris; Pastorek, Whitney; Rice, Lynette; Rottenberg, Josh; Schwartz, Missy; Slezak, Michael; Snierson, Dan; Stack, Tim; Stroup, Kate; Tucker, Ken; Vary, Adam B.; Vozick-Levinson, Simon; Ward, Kate (December 11, 2009), "THE 100 Greatest MOVIES, TV SHOWS, ALBUMS, BOOKS, CHARACTERS, SCENES, EPISODES, SONGS, DRESSES, MUSIC VIDEOS, AND TRENDS THAT ENTERTAINED US OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS". Entertainment Weekly. (1079/1080):74-84
  4. ^ Did "Lazy Sunday" make YouTube's $1.5 billion sale possible?
  5. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/arts/television/26cran.html
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