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"Like a Boss"
Song

"Like a Boss" is the tenth track and fourth single from The Lonely Island's Incredibad. The song is a parody of the first official single from Slim Thug's first album Already Platinum, also named 'Like a Boss'.

Video

"Like a Boss" premiered as an Saturday Night Live digital short on April 4, 2009.[1] The video features Seth Rogen, recording over the vocals done by Akiva Schaffer on the single. In the song, Andy Samberg is a businessman having a performance review. Samberg is asked to describe the things he does in an average day, and does so for the remainder of the song in his trademark aggressive style while repeating the lyric "like a boss" after every activity. He lists events which are fairly mundane at first but gradually become more bizarre. Samberg says that he is calling corporate headquarters, approving memos, directing work, micromanaging, promoting synergy, leading workshops, remembering birthdays, sending faxes, eating bagels, hitting on his secretary and getting rejected, swallowing sadness, calling the sex line, crying deeply and demanding a refund, drinking vodka, defecating on his secretary's desk, receiving a sexual harassment lawsuit (given to him by Taccone), being denied a promotion, jumping out a window, buying a gun and cocaine (from Schaffer), performing oral sex (on Bill Hader and on himself), crashing his car, eating chicken strips, chopping off his testicles, having sex with a giant fish, turning into a jet, bombing Russia, flying into the sun and dying. The video ends with Samberg repeating the words "I'm the boss" as Rogen walks away, annoyed and disgusted.

Popularity

As of October 8 2009, the video has been viewed more than 18 million times and was featured by The Huffington Post[2], and TV Guide.

Censorship

  • The part where Samberg attempts suicide with a gun in his mouth is edited on the NBC version. The brief shot of Samberg with a gun in his mouth is cut and Samberg's original line, "Oh, fuck man, I can't fucking do it! Shit!" is re-dubbed with, "Oh, crap, man! I can't ever do it! Nuh!"

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Huffington Post

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