Watch SNL Digital Shorts (2005) Online!
An SNL Digital Short is one in a series of comedic and often musical video shorts created for airing on NBC's Saturday Night Live, generally produced and written by The Lonely Island (Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg), though originated by Adam McKay, in collaboration with SNL hosts, writers, and cast members. The segments were originally recorded with consumer grade digital video cameras and edited on personal computers. It is usual for the episode's hosts and musical guests (the latter on rarer occasions) to take part in the episode's short, and several shorts have included celebrity cameos.
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Episode 1 - Stomp
Release Date: 2011-10-01Two cops (Hader and Samberg) bored at work find music in everyday life (parody of Stomp).
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Episode 2 - V-Necks
Release Date: 2011-10-08At a clothing store, a man (Samberg) is unconvinced that the V-neck shirt he is trying on is for him, despite his girlfriend's (Pedrad) assurances.
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Episode 3 - Drake Interview
Release Date: 2011-10-15Andy conducts several short and increasingly bizarre interviews with actor-singer Drake.
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Episode 4 - Wish It Would Rain
Release Date: 2011-11-12A depressed singer (Samberg) sings about how his girlfriend left him for another man (Armisen).
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Episode 5 - Seducing Women Through Chess
Release Date: 2011-11-19In an early '80s-style instructional video, a nerdy man dressed like Carl Sagan (Samberg) shows viewers how to seduce women by playing chess, but the first two women (played by Nasim Pedrad and Abby Elliott) beat him.
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Episode 6 - Batman
Release Date: 2011-12-03Commissioner Gordon (Steve Buscemi) keeps getting stalked by Batman (Samberg). Paul Brittain and Kristen Wiig appears as Aquaman and the Riddler respectively.
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Episode 7 - Best Friends
Release Date: 2011-12-10Katy Perry and Samberg become best friends, then meet up with a "handsome drug addict" (Matt Damon) and "brilliant lunatic" (Val Kilmer) who want to be best friends too.
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Episode 8 - Convoluted Jerry
Release Date: 2012-01-07A fake commercial for a CD collection featuring Convoluted Jerry (Andy Samberg), a singer whose lyrics are wordy and confusing, with songs including "Quit not Being My Lover," "Backwards Day" and "Jerry Explains the Movie Inception".
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Episode 9 - Afros
Release Date: 2012-03-03A man (Samberg) and woman (Wiig) dressed in '70s-style clothing declare their love for each other in song. As the camera pulls back we can see that they are connected by their shared enormous afro.
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Episode 10 - Tennis Balls
Release Date: 2012-03-10To test the effects of stress on the human heart, a man (Jonah Hill) is hit repeatedly in the testicles by tennis balls fired from a tennis ball machine.
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Episode 11 - Laser Cats 7
Release Date: 2012-04-14Despite Lorne Michaels' objections, Hader and Samberg show him the latest Laser Cats short – this time directed by Steven Spielberg (appearing as both himself and a "Hitchcockian" cameo in the short), which contains many references to his films, including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Host Josh Brolin appears as a "Space Nazi."
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Episode 12 - Gotye Backstage
Release Date: 2012-04-14Samberg and Taran Killam visit Gotye in his dressing room, then stalk him by appearing in nothing but body paint and black wigs (as seen in the "Somebody That I Used To Know" music video).
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Episode 13 - 100th Short
Release Date: 2012-05-12The Lonely Island celebrate their 100th Digital Short by revisiting many digital short favorite characters, clips from previous Digital Shorts, and fresh footage from numerous celebrities.
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Episode 14 - Lazy Sunday 2
Release Date: 2012-05-19Samberg and Parnell do another "Lazy Sunday" rap for Sister Act: The Musical.