I remember flipping between Mad TV and SNL back in 2006. I was watching Jack Black host an SNL episode, and a sketch came on where he was a bumbling news reporter in a photoshoot with his colleagues. What came after it was simply life-stopping. The first few seconds of “Lazy Sunday”, gave me the impression that this “featured player” Andy Samberg as a college-aged douche bag. But the time he described the combination of Mr. Pibb and Red Vines were “crazy delicious”, I knew there was a lot more to this guy. Digital Shorts have become part of popular culture, with videos like “Dick in a Box” and “I’m on a Boat” because they are genuinely funny. The most shared videos of the SNL library have been music videos, but there are a few great ones that are just plain old sketches.

There are a few Digital Shorts that are not online at all. Some of them have only aired to a live audience at SNL’s dress rehearsal. Some aren’t worth watching. But there IS one that isn’t online on SNL’s hulu page, NBC Youtube page, or SNL’s official site on NBC even though it’s the funniest digital short. It has surprisingly gone viral without being a music video, find out which video it is and why, after the jump:

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