Who performed the SNL Digital Short 'Lazy Sunday' with Andy Samberg?

Chris Parnell performed the SNL Digital Short “Lazy Sunday” with Andy Samberg.

The short premiered on December 17, 2005, during Saturday Night Live’s 31st season. Samberg and Parnell play two intensely self-serious rappers whose supposedly hardcore mission is to buy cupcakes, snacks, and tickets for a Sunday matinee of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

“Lazy Sunday” was created by Samberg, Parnell, and Lonely Island members Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. They wrote it quickly, recorded it with a laptop in their SNL offices, and filmed around Manhattan with a borrowed camera. Lorne Michaels approved it for broadcast shortly before the episode aired.

The sketch became an overnight Internet sensation and helped establish SNL’s Digital Shorts as a major part of the show’s identity. A common mix-up is crediting the whole Lonely Island trio as the on-screen performers: Schaffer and Taccone co-created the piece, but the two principal performers in the video are Samberg and Parnell. Its 2012 sequel, “Lazy Sunday 2,” reunited the pair.