Hey everyone, I'm really enjoying the new website and I thought as my first blog post that I'd consider a feature of SNL that I've enjoyed for sometime, the Digital Shorts!

5.

Laser Cats!

Video: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/#mea=2925

Description: In the very first episode of the aptly named Laser Cats! Finds SNL regulars Hader and Samberg making a pitch fo SNL executive producer Lorne Micheals on amazing new concept for a low-budget Digital Short - Laser Cats! With layers upon layers of cheese the skit features the fallout of a nuclear war where cats can incredibly shoots lasers from their mouths and thus be used as weapons. It features Hader and Samberg playing the heroes Nitro and Admiral Spacespace rescuing the unsuspecting princess, starred by Lindsay Lohan.

There was also subsequent and equally cheesy sequels:
 http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/#mea=55989
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=237292

4.

Grandkids in the Movies

Video: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/#mea=221738

Description: An outrageously funny and clever short that features a grandpa offering videos featuring his grandsons (Hader and Samberg) digitally inserting themselves into real movies to help old people feel more comfortable about modern movies.

3.

United Way

Video: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=84993

Description: Is a parody of public service announcements for the United Way that features all-star football player Peyton Manning taking time out his busy schedule to mentor sick kids, but in the end harms them physically and mentally with various verbal abuses.
2.

Dick in a Box

Video (Uncensored): http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/#mea=51414

Description: Perhaps one of the funniest songs ever written it features Justin Timberlake and Samberg giving their lovers played by regulars Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph a box with their penis' inside as a Christmas present. The song itself is a parody of early 90s R&B sex ballads from such artists as R. Kelly and Color Me Badd. Incredibly the song won a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Music and Lyrics in 2007.

1.

Lazy Sunday

Video: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=2921

Description: This video can be watched repeatedly and it never gets old. The lyrics are absolutely inspired and incredibly funny. One of the funniest raps songs every conceived bar none. A song that includes references to The Chronicles of Narnia, cupcakes, Mr. Pibb, Red Vines, and Matthew among others is automatically awesome.

So there you go, hope you enjoyed the list, and feel free to make comments!