Lazy Sunday

Pop-ups (22 · 5 fan picks from YouTube comments)

1. Fans point here

   0:07

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 18 likes.

   Hey, everybody, it's time to journey back to SNL in the 2000s, where we discussed the digital short era. I'm Seth Meyers, and I'm talking to The Lonely Island, which is Akiva Schaffer. Hi. Jormit Kony. Hello. And Andy… — Seth

2. Fifties WAP: a theme song riff

   0:30

   The guys riff on the show's theme music, with Andy deadpanning that it sounds like a fifties shaving cream jingle. 'Fifties WAP' becomes a running throwaway joke.

   What genre of music would you call that?

3. Out of ideas after Lettuce

   3:02

   After Lettuce aired, Higgins and Shoemaker asked for more, but the team had no fresh ideas, so they went back to Forte for a stoop-set sequel called Peyote.

   we were immediately out of ideas. We had been at the show maybe two months

4. The white-on-black 'Digital Short' title card

   5:14

   The card's font came from Adam McKay and Will Ferrell's short films, which were shot on 35mm and then branded as digital shorts to warn viewers of lower video quality.

   we had watched some Adam McKay shorts with Will Ferrell. It was just the two of them messing around.

5. Ka-blamo: the group's first slang

   9:06

   Ka-blamo was the group's first song and their word for 'awesome,' coined in their shared LA apartment. Its opposite, 'not ka-blamo,' was a regular put-down.

   And our first one was called Kablamo, which was our way of saying a new cool word.
   ka‑blamo

6. Fans point here

   11:28

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 5 likes.

   It was me and Akiva and it was a very aggressive style beat, but a very mundane thing about I've gotten broken up with and I'm very upset about it and I go over to his house for solace and friendship, but it's us… — Jorma

7. Fans point here

   20:57

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 18 likes.

   And I think by the end of making it, we're fine with it. Yes, for sure. For sure. Support comes from Airbnb. As we've talked about, I just got back from St. Lucy watching the Mets. — Akiva

8. Fans point here

   22:58

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 18 likes.

   We should talk a little bit about the filming of Lazy Sunday. What kind of camera do we use, Keith? Oh, no. I think it was a Panasonic or Sony. So wait, I want to say YouTube, Supreme. Let's also not forget Magnolia… — Seth

9. Magnolia Bakery tries to take the tapes

   24:06

   The bakery owner had a worker try to confiscate the crew's footage, but a lawyer had told the team they could shoot on the street freely, so they left and kept the tapes.

   we're on the street. So we're allowed to do anything on the street.

10. Magnolia's belated free cupcakes

    24:44

    Years later, after the story spread, Magnolia started sending free cupcakes and banana pudding to the group's shoots.

    They started sending us free Magnolia just to our shoots.

11. Frapping and frappers defined

    26:04

    The guys coin 'frap' for fake rap and 'frapper' for someone who fakes rapping, a term that becomes part of their vocabulary.

    Frapping is a term we've coined for fake rapping.
    frapfrapper

12. Frapping in the back of the cab

    26:11

    Akiva and Andy were 'frapping' in the back of the cab during the Lazy Sunday shoot, so the term is applied retroactively to their earlier performances.

    So you were frapping. We were in the back of the cab frapping.

    Goes back to Frapping, Trailer, 0:51, Andy: Should we say frapping anytime we're talking about times when we were performing our lyrics?

    Frapping

13. Lazy Sunday's cab-ride shoot

    28:43

    The crew shot the cab sequence with a camcorder, a $15 speaker plugged into an iPod, and no professional gear. They claimed to be NYU film students when it helped.

    we would either tell people it was for SNL if that helped us or just claim to be film students

14. Smigel's Christmas Time for the Jews

    29:56

    Robert Smigel's claymation Christmas Time for the Jews, with Darlene Love on vocals, set the bar for timeless SNL animation that the hosts admired.

    It's Christmas time for the Jews.

15. A TV Funhouse fan moment

    31:53

    The guys geeked out when Smigel, who had created TV Funhouse, praised their work after the show, which they had studied as young fans.

    that's somebody doing like actual edgy dope shit

16. Jack Black hosts with Neil Young

    32:50

    Jack Black hosted the show in Enemy Mine's season with musical guest Neil Young. The episode is considered a banger by the hosts.

    Jack Black hosted musical guest Neil Young.

17. Fans point here

    34:03

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.

    Yeah, show nine. Now I get it. We should note that this is based on a Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr. film. Yes, it's a sci-fi movie called Enemy Mind that I was super into. that maybe came out 15 years before you… — Seth

18. Enemy Mine's source film

    34:36

    The Enemy Mine sketch parodies the 1985 sci-fi film of the same name, a film Andy loved. Seth also appreciated the movie despite the sketch's late-reveal twist.

    Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr., who's an alien, crash land on the same planet.

19. Glerk: a pilot-era precursor

    35:56

    Before SNL, the group made a cheap 2004 Fox sketch pilot featuring Glerk, a precursor to the Enemy Mine sketch, with Jack Black introducing it.

    one of the sketches we did was this Enemy Minds-style sketch.

20. Jack Black is their go-to host

    37:25

    Jack Black and Jonah Hill were hosts who would champion pieces the writers loved, pushing them through to air.

    Jack Black was the kind of host, and you weren't the only ones to take advantage of it this show

21. Spelling Bee airs thanks to Jack Black

    41:33

    Spelling Bee, a Will Forte sketch that had been cut several times over three years, finally aired when Jack Black came out and performed a rewritten song as a bridge.

    Spelling Bee was a sketch that had been at the table multiple times.

22. The YouTube origin of Lazy Sunday

    43:35

    Someone uploaded Lazy Sunday to YouTube, and the clip reached about 5 million views, making it one of the site's first big moments and tying the group to YouTube's rise.

    it was also on a site called YouTube that we hadn't heard of before.

23. Supreme jacket becomes collateral damage

    45:53

    Andy's Supreme coat, worn in Lazy Sunday, made him recognizable as the character, a fact the hosts jokingly describe as collateral damage.

    This was the collateral damage of Lazy Sunday that no one likes to talk about.

24. Supreme and YouTube credit dispute

    47:07

    Andy says the group never received credit for popularizing Supreme and YouTube, two causes they are willing to die on.

    those are two hills that we're going to die on

25. Did the cast hate them?

    48:04

    Seth admits he was jealous of the sketch's success but still loved the group, and says that yes, everyone hated them.

    Yes, everybody hated you.

26. Dick Cheney Santa cold open

    51:22

    Seth's cold open for the Christmas show had Darryl Hammond play Dick Cheney as a mall Santa, a Christmas-specific political take Seth still stands by.

    Daryl Hammond as Dick Cheney as a Santa Claus in the mall.

27. The failed monologue-writing experiment

    53:31

    A writing experiment where pairs drew names from a hat to co-write monologues went 0 for 4, and writers begged to stop.

    And it went 0 for 4.