Dick In A Box VS. Nipplegate

NBC’s no longer slinging injunctions against YouTube for hosting clips from Saturday Night Live. In fact, they’re getting in on the party and have posted a couple segments from Justin Timberlake’s host/musical guest one two punch this past Saturday. If you’ve somehow missed the water cooler  musical..parody? let’s just say bit of the season, it’s called ‘Dick in a Box’ and it features Andy Samberg and JT. During the broadcast the word ‘dick’ was censored but in what appears to be the first move of its kind SNL generously removed the bleep on the version they released to YouTube which you can see here.

I had some thoughts on the matter, reasonably serious thoughts, but not quite serious enough inspire a well-crafted diatribe. This e-mail exchange between D. and myself kind of covers it, and then there’s your compulsory trash talking.

ME: Janet shows a little tittie and it's the biggest scandal of the century so far. Justin sings a very sexplicit song about putting his dick in box, it winds up on YouTube which many, many more children watch than halftime at the fucking SuperBowl, and he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sliced WHITE bread. I'm calling racist double standard bullshit on that.

Thoughts?

Funny skit though. That Andy Shambaugh gets on my nerves, however

oh, and sexist. with a little jacksonphobia in there.

D: you're absolutely right.  like, right on point.  but at this point, i'm not about pitching the two against each other.  janet is as nasty as she wants to be too...  (her wardrobe malfunction is also on yourube) and i have a feeling that had youtube and xtube been as popular then as they are now, the "scandal" would have played out differently.  she just happened to show her tit when the nation needed something trite to focus on...  the world is so fucked up now that i don't think she would have gotten the same play...  three years into the war.  she would have been scoffed at...

ME: Right, and I do think hers (and his) was kinda wacky and a bit wack, and this is All In Good Fun but,  really, Bare Breast Covered By Some Weird Nipple Ring v. Dick In A Box? Both pretty raunchy. Anyway, the racist/sexist element is pretty naked. So to speak. As it were. Just
everyone's all high on Christmas and pretty non-threatening white boy JT.

Tittyygate paved the way for The Dick In The Box to be accepted-no, to be CELEBRATED. It's all timing. And our culture is filled with morons.

Oh, and I think it should be Cock In Box, as far as the rhyme scheme goes.
D: dick is a more offensive word than cock.  funnier because it doesn't rhyme... ya think?  and had they shown any of the dicks (and i would be happy with andy's.  i don't share your opinion of that particular Jewish honey.) then we could really get to the nitty gritty.  the fact is, janet has been talking about her tits and her pussy for 10 years.  and that's all JT was doing, for the first time ever, in a weird homage to Color Me Badd...

 
ME: what i find wacky is all these kids singing the song (seriously, at this xmas party last night? that's all anyone under 30 could talk about) but no one knew who color me badd was-or el debarge, for that matter.

You take Shambaugh. I'll take care of JT. After watching his What Goes Around on SNL I think I know how he is, like the brothers isley would say, between the sheets. and me likey. (Kind of like the Guitar Face or O Face? thing from Men.Style.Com)

 
D: i had no idea he hosted last weekend.  i am such a loser...  i just watched all that shit...  i thought his dick in a box was a special guest appearance

ME: I don't think that makes you a loser, not knowing that Justin Timberlake was hosting SNL.

that live clip is on YouTube. Not knowing THAT would make you a loser.  Not really.

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[d.lirium tremens]

i like reading it back on your website! it's almost like it was scripted to be an article... far more interesting in this context... although, it's still just you and me talking about it. (weh weh!)