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The approximate timeline from Saturday Night Live video, no, wait, digital short, to being "above the fold" on the NYTimes.com website is nine days! We doubt The Lonely Island/SNL gang was up at 8AM to see the "Lazy Sunday" article, "Nerds in the Hood, Stars on the Web," take the prime position on the Gray Lady's Less Gray Website, but Gothamist did. And we love the internet. Apparently the Lonely Island guys, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone, along with Chris Parnell, wrote the sketch together and shot it all over West Village and Chelsea in the week before it aired. Parnell takes the time to tell the NY Times that his raps about crushes on Britney Spears, Kirsten Dunst, and Jennifer Garner have been mostly well-received by the stars, though he hasn't heard from Britney Spears. The article does not, however, mention the short's impact on sales of Magnolia Bakery cupcakes, Mr. Pibb's, Red Vines, or the Chronicle of Narnia movie tickets (or the chronic, for that matter).
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You know you are over the hill when you have to learn the latest slang for pot from the New York Times.
Lazy Sunday is also a free download at iTunes
For some reason I am reminded of an old Daily News or New York Newsday (R.I.P.) TV ad which made a joke of the Times sports coverage, which had "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" being sung or read, but in proper Times style English.
I also get a feeling of deja vu when I read the Times' Metro Section, as I seemed to have read the same news the day before in the Daily News.
It's oddly comforting to see the N.Y. Times try and be a bit more 'common man' in it's coverage. But a bit sad as well since it's clear their source for most of this pop culture info is second hand at best.
I appreciate the depth they bring at times, but it all seems a wee bit desperate in its own way.
The best was the weekend article about the Teutul family of Orange County Choppers and Discovery Channel fame. The Times felt the need to explain to "more urbane Manhattanites" that "American Chopper" wasn't a show about patriotic dentistry. I say, how droll!
But back to nerdy rappers: I really do love Chris Parnell. All his old raps are hilarious.
you can really tell that Parnell actually is a hip-hod head because he knows how to carry the rhythmn of the performance. Very impressive. And I have to say, this Andy kid is coming on strong. I checked out his old stuff and he certainly shined in the old group, it's no wonder the other two guys are writers. They better start picking it up with more of this stuff if they want to hang around though.
Hey Ruidh I hope you are referring to someone else and not yourself since "Chronic" has been Pot slang at least since 1992 when Dr. Dre, formerly of N.W.A. released his groundbreaking album, "The Chronic."
I guarantee it was used well before that...
I wonder if this is all due to Sam sifton moving to the arts/leisure section, since we know he's the whitest of the wonder breads around.
was this song about pot? I thought they were making fun of the play on words about pot. It was like they were saying "chronic" and then somebody gets excited that it's pot so they say "what?!" and then they find out it was actually the movie chronicles of narnia