Here’s a wild TIL. Back in April 2007 (god we are old), SNL aired this sketch Digital Short The Shooter (or Dear Sister). It was super weird. It’s got Bill Hader writing a letter to his sister, and then while “Hide and Seek” by Imogen Heap plays, we go to slow motion while Andy Samberg shoots him, everybody gets shot, there’s some cops (also shot). I remember Jack Burden really liking it, and I remember being mystified. What I didn’t know (and I don’t know if Jack Burden knew) is that it’s a parody of an infamous...
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Happy 20th birthday YouTube
On this day twenty years ago, December 17, 2005, YouTube was born. By which I mean the SNL Digital Short “Lazy Sunday” was aired during an episode featuring guest host Jack Black and musical guest Neil Young. Youtube was nothing before this dropped, just one among many burgeoning video sharing sites, and immediately after became one of the most popular sites on the internet, despite NBC doing everything they could to take the video down. YouTube just a couple of years later would sell itself to Google for a then-massive $1.65 billion. Not bad for a platform...
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Noted this morning in the Morning Constitutional: “We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion,” said State Sen. Jake Knotts, of South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. Knotts backs Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer in a four-way Republican primary race. Today, Knotts “apologized.” By “apologized,” of course, I mean, he’s sorry nobody got the joke: Unfortunately, the show was not recorded as was intended. If it had been recorded, the public would be able to hear firsthand that my “raghead” comments about Obama and Haley were intended in...
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