![]() When White sings her own version, she puts on a black ski mask and sings her death-metal version of the same theme, complete with moshing and violence. “Golden Girls Theme” starts off incredibly cheesy, as the cast of SNL sings the theme of Betty White’s show to her in a sign of appreciation, then only gets worse as the style changes abruptly. ![]() Barely over a minute, “Convoluted Jerry” easily overstays its welcome and not even a cameo by Charles Barkley singing a duet and an explanation of Inception can save “Convoluted Jerry.” “Convoluted Jerry” is a singer whose songs are convoluted. You see that title? That’s all you need to know really. “Hey! (Murray Hill)” doesn’t work as a parody of the shows it’s mimicking and the one joke it has to tell never really works. Eventually Blake Lively shows up to mention she also has a tiny ding-dong as they leave together, but there’s really nothing beyond that. As a sort of parody of CW teen dramas, James Franco plays a man who can’t quit telling a woman (Kristen Wiig) that comes up to him about his tiny ding-dong. One of only two Digital Shorts to be written by Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer without Andy Samberg, “Hey! (Murray Hill)” just really doesn’t have much going for it. The Digital Shorts have done intentionally bad before in hilarious ways, but “Daiquiri Girl” is just bad bad. While that is the joke, “Daiquiri Girl” is so bad, it’s hard not to imagine that this must be somewhat based in truth. The premise of “Daiquiri Girl” is that the original idea would have featured that week’s musical guest Gnarls Barkley, but when they bailed, Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg got drunk and made this terrible ‘90s music video, as Samberg sings a terrible song while dressed sort of like an early version of Shy Ronnie. With the first Lonely Island film Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping on the way later this year, let’s take a look at the Digital Shorts from worst to best-all 104 of them. The three primary short creators-Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone-, a comedy rap group that would become almost as popular as the shorts themselves. By the second one, the Digital Short became a huge hit, revitalizing Saturday Night Live and bringing a fresh new style of humor that still resonates long after the show’s shorts creators have moved on. In the span of just a few minutes, the Digital Shorts could get in and get out with a strange, witty idea, without overstaying its welcome-a problem SNL has always had. What started off as just a few of the show’s writers and cast members going off to do their own thing became the most anticipated and beloved segment of the show going into the new millennium, and is often cited as one of the primary reasons Youtube took off. Over the course of a decade, Saturday Night Live’s Digital Shorts became a groundbreaking way to bring sketch comedy to the world in bite-size chunks.
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