“It tired itself out in the early rounds,” says Meyers. You’re not going to get past ‘Lazy Sunday.’” Ultimately, “Reba” was a classic five-seed that couldn’t beat the top contenders. “It’s so perfect and so stupid, and there are so many moves in it.” Even so, “Lazy Sunday,” the cupcake-filled digital short that opened the door for all the rest, was “just a chainsaw. “It makes me laugh harder than any other digital short,” he says. “Two Worlds Collide” - in which Kenan Thompson plays a Reba McEntire impersonator who tricks Samberg into having sex with him - is Meyers’s personal No. “‘Motherlover’ correctly beat ‘I Just Had Sex.’” “There’s a real appreciation for the fact that they did a sequel that was arguably better than the first one,” says Meyers. And in this matchup, the edge went to “Motherlover,” a “Dick in a Box” sequel that reteamed Samberg and Justin Timberlake as ’90s R&B singers who romance each other’s moms for Mother’s Day. But the bracket wasn’t a popularity contest it was about what the SNL team liked best. “I Just Had Sex,” the Lonely Island’s ode to sealing the deal, is the group’s most popular video on YouTube, with over 250 million views. “There’s not a lot of time at SNL where everyone sits around without the burden of the show,” says Meyers. “Lorne essentially forced the guys to do a new digital short every week,” says Meyers - a strategy that resulted in brilliance (“Dick in a Box”) and, well, not brilliance (“ Nurse Nancy”). The thing that made it very SNL was that it became not just a celebration of their best work but also a celebration of their worst work” - and eventually the night devolved into a Lonely Island Worst-of Film Festival. “We got pizzas, watched each short, and then everybody would vote. “It was a Monday night, the night of the college-basketball final,” Meyers remembers. (Lorne Michaels voted in the first two rounds.) For the Sweet 16, he had another idea. They picked the winners of the first- and second-round matchups, and Meyers tabulated the results. Meyers printed out brackets and distributed them to the SNL staff. Here’s what that looked like: Expand Seeds And then the other one-seeds were ‘Dick in a Box,’ ‘I’m on a Boat,’ and ‘Jizz in My Pants.’ Those seemed like big, important ones.” Before long, he had seeded the rest. “I started with ‘Lazy Sunday.’ That’s what got the ball rolling. “It was based more on others’ perceptions than my own personal taste,” Meyers explains. So the first step was to pick and rank the top 64. “So they tried to put out the most offensive thing ever to teach Lorne a lesson.”) “Lorne really pushed them to do one that week, but they had nothing,” says Meyers. He was originally going to do “the NIT of digital shorts” for the ones that didn’t make the cut, but he had “already sunk enough time into those 64.” (By the way, he knows which short would have finished in last place: “There’s one called ‘ Daiquiri Girl’ that’s considered by everybody to be the true bottom.” In it, Samberg sings the titular song as scrolling text explains to viewers that Lonely Island knows how terrible the short is and that it was thrown together at the last minute when Gnarls Barkley backed out of the better one they’d planned to make. SNL VIDEO SHORTS ANDY SAMBERG FULLThere was something sentimental about going back and looking at the amount that they’d done.” One preemptive warning from Meyers: “I’m going on the record to say the world liked ‘ Laser Cats’ more than Seth Meyers.”īecause it was March Madness time, Meyers knew he wanted to do a full 64-seed bracket. They were part of a really great era of the show. “We were all just consumers of their work. “People chipped in and helped, but were their own sort of fiefdom,” Meyers says. The Lonely Island’s digital shorts were produced independently by the trio, so Meyers and the SNL staff were (mostly) impartial judges. How The Lonely Island Changed the Internet, Comedy, and Internet Comedy
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