The November 1, 2008 episode of Saturday Night Live featured a short, 2-minute skit about Giraffes. The skit was introduced as a Staten Island Zoo promo wherein a group of high schoolers submitted a documentary about giraffes. In the sketch, the video was submitted by the Staten Island Technical High School. The so-called "documentary" turned out to be a heavy metal music video about giraffes complete with extreme video animation but bereft of much actual fact..Saturday Night Live Video: Giraffes! (Time: 1:56)
The video showed giraffes flying with bat wings, wearing glasses drinking gasoline, eating brains, menacing humans with machine guns, rocking out with guitars and plotting to take over the world.Saturday Night Live Video: Giraffes! (Time: 1:56)
Lyrics
- Giraffes! Giraffes! Giraffes! Giraffes!
- We sleep 2 hours a day but we don't fear the reaper
- We eat from trees and play minespeeper
- We weigh 3 tons and come from outer space
- Sent here to destroy
the whole human race!.Saturday Night Live Video: Giraffes! (Time: 1:56)
References
Fast Facts
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Sketch written by Andy Samberg
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Running time
1:56
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Videos produced by comedy-music troupe The Lonely IslandThe Laughing Squid:Ras Trent & Giraffes!(November 7, 2008)
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Samberg also wrote Dick in a Box sketch which won an EmmyThe Laughing Squid: Ras Trent & Giraffes! (November 7, 2008)
