Chronic(what?) Cles of Narnia

Lazy Sunday is one of the funniest, let alone most creative, sketch to get on SNL in a long while. And this is coming from a person who disagrees with the argument that the show is too old to support modern comedic expression. I still like the show. Hell, sketches from the last show alone, such as "Two A-Holes Buy a Christmas Tree" are extraordinarily funny. Instead, I believe that most people who say the show isn't funny anymore barely watch it, instead catching truncated reruns on E! and changing the channel after the regular miss. And, honestly, a 90-minute comedy show produced and created in the space of a week is always, always going to have some misses.

The basic breakdown of the video's comedy is really similar to a lot of The Lonely Island's brand of comedy. Gangster rap music as a genre of production takes itself unbelievably serious. In fact, other lampooning by comedians such as Ali G. has been called racist for mocking of the "from the street mentality" contained within much of gangster rap music.

This video shows two guys going to a movie theater and sneaking in a couple of snacks, as basic an operation as most of The Lonely Island raps. The heavy rap music and machine-gun sound effects both adds comedy in parodying self-serious rap culture and in showing how serious Parnell and Samberg (both great guys in person) are about picking up cupcakes and seeing a children's movie.

The comedy here is pretty well layered. "You could call us Aaron Burr for the way we were dropping Hamiltons" is funny for four reasons. First of all is the aforementioned parodying of violent gangster rap imagery through a historical reference. The second is the actual historical reference connected to "dropping Hamiltons," or putting down multiple tens. The third is that "Hamiltons" are named as opposed to the regular "Benjamins," meaning that Parnell and Samberg only have a limited amount of money to spend as opposed to the usual excessive consumerism represented in gangster rap music. The fourth is that I'm a complete dork for writing all this.

Regardless, watch the video.

Christmas Time in New Zealand

According to this CNN.com article, "A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus outfits, many of them drunk, went on a rampage through Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, robbing stores, assaulting security guards and urinating from highway overpasses, police said Sunday."

The comedy here is rather obvious, although the name "Santarchy" is particularly good. I have to say that there's some amount of unintentional irony on the part of the organizers of the event, though, in that robbing and looting stores in protest of commercialization only increases prices and makes the sales of those same products all the more important to merchants targeting the consumers during major sale seasons such as Christmas and those other holidays that good Christians try to forget and hope that the liberal-Hollywood-gay-agenda doesn't change into some form of generic greeting made by store clerks whilst those same good Christians are shopping.

Snowman.

I think a good way to start this baby is to just post the most recent piece of hilarity I've seen, thanks to the LiveJournal of FilthyMonkey:



The snowman death scene represented here is very reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes. There's also a little bit of Temple of Doom in there to satiate the Generation X comedy fans. It's easy to overlook the knife in the left hand of the larger snowman, a good touch that brings it away from the initial Mortal Kombat reference it might be thought to be.

Worth noticing is the placement of the hands, mouth, and eyes of the smaller, victim snowman, and the eyebrows of the larger snowman.

Yeah. This will be that kind of site.