People always joke to us about how we made YouTube huge, but I think we were more just fortunate in having incredible timing - that we happened to have something people really wanted to watch at the moment computers got fast enough to stream it. SAMBERG: Up until the year before we got hired, we were still recording SNL on VHS tape so we could rewatch sketches we liked. We eventually started getting budgets and shooting things on better cameras and having crew, obviously. “Lazy Sunday” cost the amount of whatever we spent on videotape and taxi rides to the Upper West Side to go to a theater - cheaper than building sets for a sketch by far. And also it wasn’t a huge risk because we weren’t spending a lot of money. JORMA TACCONE, writer: Because “Lazy Sunday” became so popular, I think we garnered a lot of trust from Lorne and that allowed us to do whatever we wanted to do. 1 thing on YouTube, but the numbers were not like, obviously, what they are today. And over the next week, as it became kind of a news story, everybody discovered the video and a lot of people discovered YouTube through the video. I have no idea to this day who posted it.
So I was just excited because it was Sunday and I hadn’t seen it since we had aired and I was like, “Oh, I get to watch it again.” And that was YouTube.
NBC wasn’t putting anything online after it aired or anything like that. So it was a combination of a new style, editing it in a funnier and tighter way and also the music component, which was so strong on its own and was done so well.ĪKIVA SCHAFFER, writer: We did “Lazy Sunday” in December of 2005, and by the end of the weekend my brother emailed me and told me, “Look at this place where you can watch it online.” Because at that point you couldn’t watch SNL clips online. There hadn’t been people doing songs on our show that way probably since Adam Sandler. LORNE MICHAELS, executive producer: I guarantee you that Andy wanted to be Sandler.ĬOLIN JOST, writer-castmember: “Lazy Sunday” was a huge hit.
And then the next wave that impacted me the most was Sandler, Farley, Spade and Chris Rock. When I started watching, it was people like Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman, and then Mike Myers came in and obviously “Wayne’s World” was huge for me. Kid Who Took Viral Super Bowl Selfie With Justin Timberlake Arrested in FloridaĪNDY SAMBERG, castmember: I started watching the show when I was 8 years old.
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