Smoke on the Internet

By now — if you’re an internet-addicted American between the ages of 15 and 35 — you’ve probably seen the video from Saturday Night Live titled “The Chronicles of Narnia Rap.”

I got the link Monday morning from a buddy of mine who sent it to me with the subject, “Look, SNL finally did something funny.” A friend who IMed it to me last night said “Best thing on SNL this year. In the last five years.” A few of you have e-mailed me the link. (What can I say, I’m a depository for funny.) And I’ve seen it linked on a ton of blogs with some sort of “Best video ever!” tagline.

Time for some big cultural pronoucement/prediction/etc.: Putting this online was the smartest thing SNL could have done. The song is great, but, really, who watches Saturday Night Live anymore? Big companies are always worried about people trading files and videos and they have every right to be, but sometimes if you just let it happen it gives more publicity for the show — and hey, maybe some of those people will tune in next week to the show.

But what it really also taught us: All you have to do is make jokes about weed and we twentysomethings just eat it up. I was going to finish this thought, but then I got high. (Rimshot.)

The Chronicles of Narnia Rap [YouTube]