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Overanalyzing bad. Funny good.

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It's stuff like this that makes me angry. Angry that I'm not funnier and that I don't have funnier friends to make "short Web films" that will get me hired on "SNL" so I can be on for a few seasons and then leave to make "Corky Romano 2 : Rectal Thermometer in a guinea pig to find out if he's got a fever or just a cold electric boogaloo."



And it's hardly a classic. But compared to the junk they've been cranking out lately, I can see how people are overly impressed. Don't get me wrong, it's mad delicious.

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Not meaning to knock the guys responsible for the bit, or even the bit itself...but am I the only person on Earth who considers this to be wildly overpraised?



Sure, I got the joke. I found it mildly amusing. No better or worse than many thousands of other perfectly serviceable comedy bits that have aired on SNL over the past several years. Not laugh out loud funny, and not even close to the sort of thing The Daily Show or The Colbert Report do nightly. But everyone seems to be raving about this little film short like it was the Second Coming. What's going on?



It'll probably end being adopted by everyone who thought endlessly repeating the phrase "More cowbell!" was a substitute for actually having a sense of humor...and by the thirtieth time your friends force you to watch the clip on their PC maybe you'll start to feel differently.

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It's not that it is a particularly funnny skit, it's that it's a product of our time. The juxtaposition of gangsta rap with pop Christianity mocks the dual nature of our current society. Christians are embracing Mel Gibson's ultraviolent The Passion of the Christ--even televangelists on TBN are giving away the film as a gift for donations-- when they would be appalled and disgusted by the vulgarity if it appeared in any other of his films.



The rap video may not be a classic, but we are going to look back on it as being so 2004-20?? sometime in the future.

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I agree with RAB, i don't find this to be as hilarious as everyone else does. Is it funny becausse they are two white guys? or the whole over zealous gangsta attitude?

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I agree with Sam-overanalyzing bad. Just look at the backlash that's started over it. Just enjoy the song! Why are people trying to be deep with it?

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Yes, the video is frickin' hilarious and one of the funniest thing to come on SNL for years. And I can say that because, thanks to DVRs, I don't think I've missed an episode for the past three years. I saw "Lazy Sunday" half-drunk at 3 AM, and was immediately compelled to record the show on DVD. I am glad that I have a great quality episode and do not have the stream the video online.



Blah blah blah. The point is, the sketch is bloody brilliant and analyses like the Times articles don't hurt because they are documenting the effect that the internet is having on all forms of entertainment. We've seen the reverberations throughout the music industry, and with all the television content available (legally) online now, there's no doubting how the media has changed.



I first came across the Lonely Island guys with their series "The 'Bu" on Channel 101. The channel 101 website claims that it is "the unavoidable future of entertainment." Now that's a true statement.

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I saw "Lazy Sunday," when it aired and I have to say: I didn't think it was all that funny. Maybe I'm just getting too old to appreciate the humor of SNL. I long for the days of witty, sharp satire. These days the humor is little more than glorified fart jokes. This has to be the most attention Chris Parnell (who's not all the funny to begin with) has ever received in all the years he's been on the show.

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Best thing SNL's had since the Col. Ingus skit about 3 years ago.



The show lacks verve, nerve or originality. The video for once had all three.

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I'm not a regular SNL viewer, so I can't speak of their overall quality. I will admit starting to watch it more after it started airing in HD, and I did happen to watch "Lazy Sunday" live. I will equate my appreciation for this song/video to that of my appreciation for Eminem or Tenacious D. While neither can be heralded as "great" they certainly have their moments. Just tell me you don't appreciate the following lines taken from "Lazy Sunday"



"People confuse me for Adam Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons"



"Two no six, no twelve, BAKERS DOZEN!"



The lyrics and accompanying screen images are hilarious. I truly feel sorry for those who do not find this to be amusing.

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I can't believe all of the buzz-killing posts on here. What, is Tina Fey encouraging you guys to all rain on the Lazy Sunday parade in order to pave the way for her to continue to get crazy amounts of air time for her lame (and getting lamer) political skits on SNL?



I have seen some pretty uptight and humorless people before, but anyone who doesn't get what is hysterical about "Lazy Sunday" is either a vapid, humorless pile of psedointellectual shhhhhhih or is living somewhere in some uncharted territory in a cultural vacuum.



Chris Parnell is STILL an excellent asset to SNL -- he can play a straight man with a booming radio announcer's voice like nobody since the late great Phil Hartman and he can be as immature and funny as a Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, or Adam Sandler. Who do you see out there with that kind of range?



Most of the current cast that SNL has right now, Parnell, Hammond, Mitchell, Thompson, Forte, all three new guys (Sedeikis, Heder, Samberg)and Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch (they need one more versatile female and Tina Fey should be back behind the scenes as a writer)are so talented, this group could end up being incredibly funny. Especially if Maya comes back. They could make history (and herstory). And, truth be told, a lot of us have been watching this show since 1975 ... how many other shows can make that claim? And some us who are in our 30's and even beyond are starting to struggle to stay up that late but we hang in there to catch the show. SNL IS FUNNY, and it is one of the greats. I want to give a shout out and props to the Lonely Island guys, Shaffer and Taccone, and to Samberg and Parnell for putting this out there! I sat there in shock and amazement when I saw that video on December 17th, I have not laughed so hard in ages! And that rap was not to shabby, either. It was dope. Or hard core. Both.



And the thing is, you bunch of negative, humorless, Debbie Downers: a lot of us think that rap parodies are funny. The attention that the Lazy Sunday video has garnered is proof that most fans of the show completely get it, and so does the average person sitting at their PC. If you don't get it you are either a Baptist minister, someone's great grandmother, you work for the FCC, or there just may be no hope for you. Lighten up!

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