“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. There 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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