SNL Digital Shorts

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The opening title used for each short.

SNL Digital Shorts are short video segments created for airing on Saturday Night Live that premiered during the 2005-6 season. The segments are recorded with consumer grade digital video cameras and edited on personal computers.

The Lonely Island is largely responsible for producing the comedic shorts. Most of the shorts were written by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg in collaboration with SNL hosts and cast members. The shorts generally take less than five days to complete. Schaffer has directed all the shorts and Taccone along with his brother, Asa, have produced music as necessary. Actors Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Natalie Portman and Lindsay Lohan have starred in the shorts, and Scarlett Johansson, Conan O'Brien and Brian Williams made cameo appearances in the February 4, 2006 short "The Tangent".

The most well-known short was "Lazy Sunday," which aired December 17, 2005. The music video, written by The Lonely Island and Chris Parnell, was viewed more than five million times on YouTube alone before it was removed because of copyright infringement.

List of shorts

Title	Original airdate	Description
Lettuce	3 December 2005	In what is revealed to be a commercial for the plant, two friends discuss the death of a family member while taking large bites out of large heads of lettuce.
Lazy Sunday[link]	17 December 2005	Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg rap about, cupcakes, Red Vines, Matthew Perry and a host of other products.
Young Chuck Norris[link]	21 January 2006	A fan of Chuck Norris sings a ballad for him with an accompanying music video.
The Tangent	4 February 2006	A man rambles on and on to his friend about a date he went on. During the time he is discovered by a talent scout, stars in a movie with Scarlett Johansson, becomes a national phenomenon and loses it all without even noticing.
Close Talkers	4 February 2006	Two old friends from school meet up after years apart and start talking to each other standing with their faces an inch apart.
A Day In The Life of Natalie Portman[link]	4 March 2006	Natalie Portman is interviewed about her life and responds with a rap about how she is a "badass bitch." This is a play off her "goodgirl" image.
Doppelgänger[link]	11 March 2006	Seth Meyers, Will Forte, and Andy Samberg are on a lunchbreak and start to notice that each one has a doppelgänger nearby. After Seth and Will say that a large bum (played by Horatio Sanz) is Andy's doppelgänger, they kill the real Andy in an evil twin scenario.
Laser Cats![link]	15 April 2006	Bill Hader and Andy Samberg pitch to Lorne Michaels about their new digital short "Laser Cats." The short within the short is about a future where a nuclear war causes cats to be mutated into weapons that shoot lasers from their mouths.
Ariel & Efrim	6 May 2006	Friends in the early 90s listen to a song (which turns into a music video) about men begging for their testicles not to be harmed.
Peyote	13 May 2006	An apparent suicide jumper is negotiated with by a man on a bullhorn, though both are safely on the ground, mere inches from one another. This is revealed to be a commercial in the same vein as Lettuce was.
Andy Walking	20 May 2006	Andy Samberg asks factual questions of passers-by outside NBC Studios in the style of the Jay Leno bit Jaywalking, instead laughing off correct answers as false.

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