More Memes! More Memes!

I don't know how many of you have been following Andy Samberg's stuff on SNL, but a lot of it shows up on the dipity time line of memes I posted last time. "Lazy Sunday", "Laser Cats", and "Andy Punches" are especially funny. (Notice the Zombies in the Andy Punches video, we'll talk more about zombies later, I promise!)

In his latest post, Samberg talks about "Dear Sister." A sketch that pokes fun at the OC. If you haven't seen this yet, you are in for a treat. Here's the original clip from the OC.



This is the SNL Digital Short, "Dear Sister":

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Of Samberg's stuff, "Dear Sister" has become the most spoofed meme of the internet community. There are over 1,000 recreations of this joke, including "Dear Matrix", "Dear Boromir", and my favorite, "Dear Duck Hunt":



Samberg got his job at SNL by creating internet videos. He and his friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone created a group and website called "The lonely Island". The exposure their material got from the website led to their creating (among other things) a pilot for Fox and ultimately they were all three hired on at SNL. Schaffer, Taccone and Samberg are responsible for the SNL digital shorts (Schaffer and Taccone write/direct/contribute music).

The first big hit was "Lazy Sunday." It was created in mid December in 2006 and by February when NBC requested that Youtube remove it from the site, it had been viewed 5,000,000 times. Some say that it reinvigorated SNL (I know it did for me).

I can't hear that Imogen Heap song, "Hide and Seek" any more without seeing Shia Labeouf lying shot on the ground. So tonight when Katee chose it for her solo (on "So You Think You Can Dance"), I had to laugh.