A *very* special Xmas, brought to you by Justin Timberlake, SNL, & YouTube

This is effin' hilarious (listeners under 18, please mute the volume for your tender ears):

Commentary from the NY Times on how SNL & Lorne Michels did an innovative end-around on the FCC and television censorship, by bleeping the word 'dick' from the live broadcast (16 times), but leaving the 'director's cut' version on YouTube uncensored.  other comments here.

(my haven't we come a long way from NBC pulling the Chronic-(what?!?)-les of Narnia clip off YouTube only a year ago...)

Comments

[Bernadette Balla]

Christmas (dick in a box), Hanukkah (dick in a box) Kwanzaa (a dick in a box). Every single holiday dick on box, over at your parent's house a dick a box, may day at the grocery store a dick in a box, backstage at the CMA's a dick in a boxxx (wa wa wawawa) (dick in a box) (dick in a box).

The song is stuck in my head. Sorry.

[peter c]

Very viral indeed. There's already a bustedtee:

http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/dickinabox/male

[Ken Berger]

ok-- this is another one of those "Snakes on a mofo plane" kinda things, propagating all over via blogs and direct email. I love SNL but don't see how this skit is all that funny. I get it, just not that funny.

otoh, yes I get the point on how it's notable what (presumably) Lorne has done-- release 2 versions, 1 broadcast and 1 online. They've come around since Lazy Sunday.

[Jeffrey McManus]

We have lost track of the number of times we've played this in our house over the past week.