114: "White and Nerdy" vs. "I'm on a Boat"
Song Vs. Song
Todd Nathanson
4.7 • 752 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
White people... rapping?? Comedy gold every time, and in the '00s, two different comedy acts reached new heights with this joke, but only one can be the kings of Caucasian comedy rap, so who reigns supreme? The man myth and legend Weird Al Yankovic with "White and Nerdy" or SNL upstarts The Lonely Island with "I'm on a Boat"?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson. |
| 0:03.7 | And I'm Lena Morgan. |
| 0:04.9 | And this is Song versus Song. |
| 0:08.1 | We have a very special one today. |
| 0:09.8 | We are going to be talking about two of maybe the most important songs of my lifetime, probably of my parents' lifetime. |
| 0:17.9 | This is so big. |
| 0:19.5 | This is such a big deal. |
| 0:22.4 | We are at last talking about weird owls, white and nerdy, versus the lonely islands. I'm on a boat. |
| 0:28.9 | Wait, these are important to your parents? |
| 0:33.2 | I mean, they're important to everybody, Lena. |
| 0:40.9 | Little children in India, the unborn. |
| 0:44.1 | You need a third thing to make it funny. |
| 0:49.2 | The remains of Abraham Lincoln, I'm sure that if we could bring him back to life, |
| 0:55.4 | he would say, I have such strong opinions about weird owls white and Nerdy and the Lonely Islands, I'm on a boat. |
| 0:57.2 | It sounds to me like you'll be taking the lead on this one and not just because I'm sick. |
| 1:02.1 | Oh, Lena sounds like that because she's sick, everyone. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm sick as hell. |
| 1:09.0 | I mean, you're going to have to bump up the energy because, God damn it, we're talking about Weird Al. |
| 1:13.6 | Don't you have strong feelings about Weird Al Yankovic and or the Lonely Island? |
| 1:18.1 | He's good. They're good. |
| 1:20.9 | No, I'm going to need a little more than that. |
| 1:23.3 | He's very good. They're very good. |
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