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...sketch group that had never performed sketches anywhere became famous in Los Angeles comedy circles (the three of them lived there until they were hired by SNL and moved to New York City) for eight 3-min. episodes of The 'Bu, a parody of The O.C. in which a troubled ninja kid moves into Malibu. The 'Bu was shown on channel101.com an outlet for unemployed comedy writers and actors. Samberg and his friends actually already had an agent, a pilot deal at Fox for a sketch show (the failed Awesometown) and a job writing for the MTV Movie Awards. Still...
...Numa Numa guy") overenthusiastically lip synching to a Romanian pop song. Last December, Saturday Night Live's Lazy Sunday video appeared on the Net after airing on the show. The white-boy rap about cupcakes and Narnia immediately went viral, spawning half a dozen catchphrases and endowing SNL with an aura of cool it hasn't enjoyed since Wayne's World (see page...
...Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Viral gold. "A friend of ours posted it onto YouTube," says Ade, 21. "After that point it got away from us." Brokeback to the Future has been viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube alone and inspired dozens of knockoffs (including Lazy Brokeback, in which SNL's Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell find each other to be "crazy delicious"). "Professionally I think this is going to help me out in the long run in terms of my film career," says...
...clod because he tripped down a flight of airline stairs in Austria and was filmed falling while skiing in Vail, Colorado. Those images of Ford were the material for send-ups by a rising young comic named Chevy Chase, who was one of Saturday Night Live?s stars. SNL went after Ford so many times that he finally went on the show and kept up the gag by telling Chase he was a "a very funny... suburb." Jimmy Carter was stalked by the "killer rabbit." In 1979, out fishing near his home in Plains, Georgia, Carter's dinghy was besieged...
...franchise of teaching studios and later brought ballroom to the masses through television, erasing the class signifiers that had accompanied certain dance steps. At the beginning of their program, immediately following a live advertisement for Newports, Alkaseltzer, or the like, my grandmother would glide onto the stage—SNL style—perform a short monologue and encourage her audience: “Add a little fun in your life: try dancing.” I have a sneaking suspicion she wouldn’t approve of her descendents giving up the classics to “drop...