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  Seven Songs for the Week #79 - 9th Oct 24

  Jason Carty

  Warning - NSFW! I'm a fan of Saturday Night Live, it's the closest I get to following a sport. Some weeks are winners, some are losers. Last week's episode was very, very good and then towards the end up came "An SNL Digital Short". I'm also a huge fan of The Lonely Island, who produced digital shorts for SNL between 2005-2012. It's best known member is Andy Samberg who went on to be the star of Brooklyn-99. As well as their SNL work, TLI made three albums, two (very silly/funny) movies (Hotrod, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) and some specials for Netflix. It had seemed that they had moved onto the more dignified phase of their career, producing movies and tv shows ("I Think You Should Leave"). There hadn't been a digital short in seven years, when they did a last minute sequel to Natalie's Rap on SNL. Earlier this year, The Lonely Island started a (reluctant) podcast with Seth Meyers (SNL's head writer during thier time there) going through each of the original digital shorts. For me this was a must-listen: SNL lore and an interesting insight into the angst, thought, and hard work that went into the digital shorts back in the day. Then two weeks ago, on the season premiere Samberg returned to SNL a surprise guest to play Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris' husband. His role will be a recurring one for the year. Still though, with Samberg back on the show, I wasn't expecting a digital short. Even when the title card appeared, it didn't seem like an actual Digital Short, not until Samberg and Akiva strolled in was it apparent that we were getting the return of The Lonely Island. Anyways, it's right up there with the best of their stuff. How they manage to combine the profane with a kind of earnestness is always funny. We've learned from this week's podcast that the song was in the bag already for a year, but the video shoot happened on Friday. That this was filmed on October 4th, and edited and ready for broadcast 24 hours later on SNL is a the mad magic of SNL's insane production schedule. Hopefully we'll have a few more of these for SNL's 50th Season.