Like a Boss

"Like a Boss"
Song

"Like a Boss" is the tenth track and fourth single from The Lonely Island's debut album Incredibad. The song is a parody of the first official single from Slim Thug's first album Already Platinum, also named 'Like a Boss'. Lonely Island writer Andy Samberg revealed in an interview with NME that the content of the song, whilst parodying Slim Thug's song of the same title, drew from his experiences of a senior manager from his time working at Los Angeles law firm, PV Legal.

Video

"Like a Boss" premiered as a Saturday Night Live digital short on April 4, 2009. 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 activities which are fairly mundane at first, such as talking to corporate headquarters, approving memorandums, remembering birthdays, leading a workshop, and promoting synergy. However, the song takes a turn after he mentions a time that a female subordinate he repeatedly hit on rejected him, causing him to "swallow sadness", get hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit and get passed up for a promotion. The ensuing depression leads to him to binge drinking and defecating on the subordinate's desk, after which he starts listing activities that are more and more bizarre, such as calling a sex line, crying deeply, attempting suicide, being afraid of committing suicide, vomiting on the subordinate's desk, jumping out of a window, "sucking a dude's dick", purchasing cocaine, crashing his car, "sucking his own dick", eating chicken strips, castrating himself, blacking out in a sewer, meeting a giant fish and "fucking its brains out", turning into a jet, bombing the Russians, crashing into the sun, and finally dying, all of which are done "like a boss".

The video ends with Samberg's tombstone being shown (which has the epitaph "He was da Best"), and a skeptical Rogen trying to confirm some of the more bizarre events with Samberg, who confirms he does chop his testicles off and die daily, but denies ever having said he fellates himself. While Samberg then keeps repeating the words "I'm the boss", Rogen leaves the room, annoyed and disgusted.

The video features brief cameo appearances from Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney as the worker that Samberg micromanages, Kristen Wiig as Samberg's office crush Deborah, Jason Sudeikis as Samberg's boss and Bill Hader as the man on whom Samberg performs fellatio. It also features Jorma Taccone as the man giving him the lawsuit, and Akiva selling him the gun.

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Popularity

As of December 19, 2011, the video has been viewed over 76,719,907 times and was featured by The Huffington Post, and TV Guide. This song has sparked the saying, "like a boss," in many different places, particularly on the internet.

Censorship

• The part where a crying 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 me, I can't fucking do it! Shit!" is re-dubbed with, "Oh, crap, man! I can't effin' do it! Nuh!"
• The parts where Samberg mentions sucking "a dude's dick" and "my own dick," the word "dick" is bleeped out.
• The part where Ian Ritchie comes on-screen and screams "Like a Boss!" while flipping off the camera, the finger is pixelated.

References

External links

• Beard, Lanford (November 8, 2011). "NBC, Andy Samberg sued for copyright infringement". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
• Original video: "Like a Boss" on YouTube
• Video and Song Lyrics: "Like a Boss"
• Lonely Island's Song Page: "Like a Boss"
• Like-A-Bossify images: "Like A Boss"