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Michael Here in the U.S., there is this TV show called "Saturday Night Live," which, as the name suggests, is broadcast on Saturday evenings and is supposed to be quite funny. At least it used to be, back in the days when "Wayne's World" started on this very show and eventually became a huge hit.
In a recently aired episode, a first-rate comedic moment shook the nation: Two white comedians performed a rap piece in the style of black gangsta rappers, but instead of drugs and gang shootings, it was about a Sunday afternoon trip to see the children's movie "Chronicles of Narnia." However, it was done with the slang, hand gestures, and gangsta music typical of black gang circles. I've watched the video "Lazy Sunday" at least a hundred times and I could still crack up laughing every time, lyrics are here.
It's not easy for inexperienced English speakers to understand, which is why diligent people on the internet have transcribed it. And probably because of the part 'Let's hit up Yahoo Maps to find the dopest route' and 'Google Maps is the best! True that! Double true!' I saw the video played over and over internally at work at Yahoo (and probably at Google as well), we laughed and laughed!
The news about the video spread like wildfire on the internet, and even people who hadn't watched the "Saturday Night Live" show got to enjoy it through video-sharing sites like youtube.com. That was until the lawyers from the TV network NBC intervened and prohibited its distribution. Now, the video is available again on nbc.com, but it doesn't work properly on many computers. Apparently, only slowpokes work at NBC!
Anyway, the video triggered a so-called West Coast rebuttal. The East and West Coasts of the USA don't see eye to eye, much like East Frisians and Bavarians. And 'rebuttal' means something like 'counter-argument.' Two guys from Los Angeles made a "Lazy Monday" video, which is even funnier! Two Jewish Californians from next door who add a gangsta tone to the most mundane things. I could laugh myself silly every time at the scene where Adam Stein casually tosses aside the book "A Brief History of Time." And the coffeehouse chain discount card "To get our 1% in!" is as typical Californian as the banana bikes or the "Color me mine" store, where you can paint your own clay creations. One laugh riot follows the next! And: Aren't we living in a great time, where a few clever people can shoot a rap video over the weekend without too much cash and spread it all over the world? Who would want to live in another time!
And the trend is now spreading around the world, "Lazy Sunday UK" already exists in England, and soon there will probably be something like "Lazy Tuesday, mein Herr" from Germany. Here in the newsletter, you'll hear it, as always, first!
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