Digital Shorts

An SNL Digital Short is one in a series of comedic and often musical video shorts created for NBC's Saturday Night Live. Generally produced and written by The Lonely Island (Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg), the series was originated by Adam McKay, in collaboration with SNL hosts, writers, and cast members. The segments were originally recorded with consumer grade digital video cameras and edited on personal computers. It is usual for the episode's hosts and musical guests (the latter on rarer occasions) to take part in the episode's short, and several shorts have included celebrity cameos.

The shorts generally took fewer than five days to complete. Akiva Schaffer has directed a majority of them, with Taccone as occasional director or co-director. Taccone, along with his brother, Asa, have produced music for the shorts as necessary.

With the departure of Samberg from SNL in 2012, it was speculated that the era of videos branded "An SNL Digital Short" had come to an end, although the episode on January 26, 2013 featured a Digital Short, as well as two during the Samberg-hosted season 39 finale on May 18, 2014. Another short was aired during the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on February 15, 2015 (featuring Andy Samberg & Adam Sandler). On May 21st, 2016, another short was aired to promote The Lonely Island's new movie, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

11 shorts were aired during the 2005–2006 season.

This short was filmed the week of the Scarlett Johansson episode, but was cut after dress rehearsal from both that episode and the Peter Sarsgaard episode before finally airing on the Steve Martin/Prince episode.

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