(The auto-tuned refrain by a guest star, T-Pain, is, no joke, among his finest work.) The humorist Andy Borowitz compares the Lonely Island to the mock-metal band Spinal Tap, in that “the best Spinal Tap songs also work as lumbering heavy-metal songs.” ![]() And if the boasts in “I’m on a Boat” are intentionally funny - has there ever been a better yachting-based taunt than “I got my swim trunks/And my flippy-floppies/I’m flipping burgers/You at Kinko’s, straight flipping copies”? - the song itself could pass as the best track in the Hot 97 rotation. A novelty hit like “Eat It” was really only funny if you were familiar with “Beat It,” but a song like “I’m on a Boat,” which features Samberg and Schaffer rapping aboard a yacht, lovingly spoofs every over-the-top hip-hop video. “We are so excited by the idea of songs being funny,” Taccone told me, “but it adds to the joke if they also sound good.” To that end, the Lonely Island’s songs aren’t punning parodies, but keen dissections of a genre’s cliches. ![]() They make novelty songs you can laugh at and also bob your head to. ![]() The group, consisting of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, who are familiar from their “Digital Shorts” on “Saturday Night Live,” has not only revived the novelty song, but they’ve done the unthinkable: they’ve made it cool. This might help explain why the era of the novelty song seemed to end right around the time that hip-hop came of age: the greatness of Weird Al’s “Straight Outta Lynwood” notwithstanding, the average funny-song singer was not cut out to spoof N.W.A. The novelty song was an outlet for nerds, morning-show shock jocks and the kind of guys who put the word “weird” in front of their names. There were exceptions, of course, like the cerebral, political Tom Lehrer - but let’s just say that, in general, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin did not sing. Whether it was Allan Sherman making his 1963 hit “Hello Mudduh! Hello Fadduh!” or Weird Al Yankovic parodying Michael Jackson with “Eat It” in 1984, the comedian who made singalong spoofs was like the hip stand-up comic’s embarrassing country cousin. "I got my swim trunks and my flippy-floppies, I'm flipping burgers, you at Kinko's straight flipping copies." While they change outfits a number of times, appearing in sailor outfits, cabana wear and tuxedos, we think they should have sported this I'm on a Boat shirt instead.The novelty song used to be popular, but it has never, ever been cool. Soon, the three lucky guys are on a boat in the blue waters off Miami rapping their hearts out while their buddy Jorma is stuck on land having a bad day. ![]() It seems obvious that he is going to bring his two band mates until he picks Akiva and T-Pain from out of nowhere. If you recall the Saturday Night Live video short, the members of band The Lonely Island, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, are sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast when Andy wins a boat ride for three as a prize in his cereal box. I just remember it as one of the funniest SNL video shorts of all time, so I decided to post this I’m on a Boat t-shirt for those of you who feel the same way. The song comically references actors and pokes fun at rap music for their often unwarranted profanity. I'm on a boat, everybody look at me, cause I'm sailing on a boat in my Lonely Island tee! That's right I'm listening to the song I'm on a Boat by The Lonely Island and T-Pain from their debut album Incredibad.
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