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It's not exactly going out on a limb to say that Andy Samberg has been the best addition to the Saturday Night Live cast in a long time – he's been the main reason that for the first time since the dawn of the Internet age, fans actually started downloading video from the show. While Lorne Michaels still likes to try to force repetitive gags down our throats, “Dick in a Box” and “Chronic-What?-cles of Narnia” became oft-repeated catchphrases because people actually thought the
Andrew YoussefLast Night: We Are Scientists, the Blood Arm at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa, May 31, 2009.Better than: Staying home and watching the MTV Movie Awards--even though Akiva Schaffer, the Lonely Island mate of host Andy Samberg who popped up on the award show's "Doubt for Sega Genesis" sketch, has directed four WAS videos. (Insert obligatory Bruno/Eminem incident comment here.)Most appropriate filler: Return or the Jedi playing on the Detroit monitors before the geek-chic We Are Scientist
Actually, no, I can't imagine this ever getting any old--it's far superior to even the lofty heights of "Dick in a Box" and "Lazy Sunday."It was the second (I know, weird) digital short on "Saturday Night Live" last night, but apparently it's also the first single of a forthcoming album coming out in February by the Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, the guys behind all the digital shorts). Their musical parodies are always great, so that album should be awesometown.
