Without LonelyGirl15 to satiate our YouTube obsession anymore, the viral video land has been somewhat quiet. That is until The Avon Lady hit the inter-waves (thanks, MadGuru).
That’s right kiddies, starring in this insanity of a rap opera video with a dinosaur Avon lady is our very own Kal Penn (as well as Superman Brandon Routh as the cop). There is a perfectly good explanation why the video is trying to be the next ‘Lazy Sunday’— because it is housed out of the same group of filmmakers of said SNL fame, The Lonely Island.
The Lonely Island is a group of filmmakers, founded in 2001 by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg… The Lonely Island has created numerous comedic films, shorts, parody songs, and music videos. They have made three full-length pilots, all of which have been rejected…The site also includes a blog from Chester Tam, often referred to as Chez. The blog, titled “Chez Chat”, gives humorous summaries of the site’s updates. [wiki]
Watch, comment, enjoy. As for me, Chez’s you tube videos and podcasts are my new inter-addiction. I cannot wait for Part II and some more Kal Penn in speaking roles.
that dinosaur just killed me man.
good to see the indic-asian buddy flicks. prob not a coincidence. my best uni-bud is taiwanese-am… -sigh- dominos, flea bombs, beavis and butthead and late night munchies… shit man.. you kids still in school are SO damn lucky.
There is nothing, I repeat nothing, I repeat nothing, as good as Lazy Sunday. Not this, not Natalie Portman cussing till she’s blue in the face, not “Lazy Monday,” not “Lazy Muncie.”
All imitations are doomed to failure.
True dat, double true.
Mr. Kobayashi. You are straight trippin’. I just watched Portman cussing and it was quite…
I think we should make an SM version. Lazy Monkey.
i agree with abhi about natalie.
man oh MAN I wish I still smoked ganja. Now I have only memories to make this video enjoyable.
and yes, my best bud during those years was a 6’3″ Taiwanese brotha…
the KP clip doesn’t hold a candle to either the Lazy sunday or Portman ones after watching all three back-to-back. in fact it’s too nonsensical and contrived to be funny, really.
yea, i too had a close korean bud throughout HS and college-ish…along with a crazy self-professed rajput-thakur warrior mistress beastwoman of a gf from Lucknow who would BARBECUE in her f*****g dorm, setting off fire alarms on more than one occassion while grilling a RACK OF LAMB on a goddamn hotplate meant for boiling water.
yea so anyway, the clip is EH
The best of all three is the one with the star wars chica. The one with kumar is a distant third.
There is absolutely no doubt that Natalie Raps is the best of the SNL shorts. As for Lazy Sunday and KalPenn/Chez, they are a tie for a distant second.
That was thoroughly entertaining.
Omigosh, I found another point of agreement with Razib. Damn that chick is hot. To look at. I mean, Lazy Sunday is still number one. And even though the KP video sucks, it’s always good to see Asians on screen doing non-stereotypical Asian things.
Hmm, non-sterotypical…. like, dreaming about avocado face masks? chasing a dinosaur/Avon lady down the street? Driving a prius? Getting racially profiled and pulled over by a cop- oh wait a sec —
Ok good point. The brush fire up here is getting to my sinuses and my brain.
oh wait- you thought that was a good point? I was just teasing you!
Heh? Stop messing with my head, woman! I’ve inhaled too much of this forest fire smoke! I thought you were theorizing on subtext or… I’m going to sleep.
Mmmmm… carbon monoxide…
This isn’t Kal’s first visit to the Lonely Island either. He guest-starred as “Guy They Took Driver’s Ed Class With” on episode two of The Lonely Island: Regarding Ardy.
Second, this isn’t an imitation of Lazy Sunday. In fact, it’s kind of the other way around since Lazy Sunday was an imitation of what the dudes at the Lonely Island had already been doing (just without Jorm and Kiv, who are apparently not fit to be seen by the viewing public).
I don’t know about all y’all, but that dinosaur freaks me out for some reason.
Geez, talk about party crashers. As Victor Freeh said, Lazy Sunday is just one item in a host of items, and those of us who have been following Lonely Island style antics these many years aren’t going to stop watching all of them just b/c ooh, Lazy Sunday was on SNL and was oh so good. I mean, dude, just b/c one thing was super funny do you stop watching anything else? That’s the functional equivalent of leaving a comment on Taz’s blogpost and saying, “oh, it’s not as funny as this post Manish wrote two years ago. THAT was the best Mutiny post ever.” This was new and wacky and different.
I mean, how can you not love that freaky dinosaur and Kal’s bloodshot eyes and pizza and boxed wine? /shakes head.
“That’s the functional equivalent of leaving a comment on Taz’s blogpost and saying, “oh, it’s not as funny as this post Manish wrote two years ago. “
Only if TazPac clearly emulates a style that Manish used earlier. If anyone other than KP was in this, no one would give it half a dime’s worth of their time.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Saheli, throw down, dude. I got yer back.
I mean…Yaaarrrr…soon he sleeps in Davy Jones’ Locker!
I’m going to sound like a complete anorak, but I still say Lazy Sunday‘s the best. The others are craptastic. Sorry Natalie Portman, but being very very good looking, and saying “suck my **** (and, hello, you’re a lady, you don’t have a ****), and smashing chairs, and claiming to be the baddest ever Harvard grad (which, anyway, isn’t you), doesn’t equal funny. And Kal Penn’s vid is funny-ish, but not really funny. Too long, too stoppy and starty. And the Asian dude isn’t as cool or as funny as John Cho. And all the other stuff on Lonely Island is just so-so.
Lazy Sunday, meanwhile, is actually better than most rap songs released last year, and the expletives are judiciously used, which makes them pack a punch, and there’s an interesting story line (not just the vey hot Natalie Portman grabbing her crotch and repeatedly making the demonstrably spurious claim that she has a ****). Stop it Natalie, it’s getting annoying.
Funny is about synergy. Funny is the blissed out look on Parnell’s face at the end of Lazy Sunday. Funny is the sound of breaking glass on the break. Funny is “girl acted like she’d never seen a ten before.” There’s a reason why a dozen different spoofs of (or homages to) Lazy Sunday have been made. No one’s going to spoof The Avon Lady.
That’s all I have to say on the matter. And I don’t care how many cool points it costs me.
Now, on to the pressing issue of writing Lazy Monkey.
This isn’t as good as Lazy Sunday.
Mr. K, though we’ve never met and I respect your comments immensely, I’m going to have to disagree with you on one central point. Gratuitous use of swear words pretty much always funny.
Hear, hear. I’ve no ideas whatsoever, but, speaking of gratuitous cussing, I see the possibility of many interesting puns ‘twixt the words, “ck,” “my ck,” and macaca.
Yo yo yo don’t do that. I talk out of my ass half the time. Are you saying you respect my ass immensely? Eh? Didn’t think so.
Young uns always looking for a bloody role model.
Actually, I think the expression in question was dk not ck. But I may be wrong. Anyway, there’s got to be something we can do with “chicken tikka masala,” “pukka” and “macaca.”
For Lazy Monkey, all I have so far is a chorus refrain, all boisterous and Onyx-like:
Hanuman on parade! Rajni in the muthafin’ house! Hanuman on parade! Rajni in the muthafin’ house! etc….
Gettin’ sweet chicky Tickety-Boo Suckin’ on macaca… Man, that mama’s as finger lickin’ good as a desi Colonel’s chicken tikka masala
my god, this website is amazing!