Probably because it is so regional. Like this would KILL among people in NYC, but not so much in the rest of the country where there isn't such a big Jamaican diaspora. Here in the Caribbean though, it's hilarious. They absolutely did their research.
They literally got Robbie Shakespeare to play bass on this song who recorded something like 2000 reggae songs. Unlike Ras Trent, they didn't just get someone to copy the style, they got the real deal.
Guess he transferred there from Carleton... My neighbour was a guy named Trent, with dreads, that shirt, an unforgettable funk (B.O., patchouli, and stale pizza), and while it wasn't Cold Stone creamery, he toiled part time at a Roots store.
@@MrDogfish83 agreed but in that he also tapped into a lot of common, surface level (some might say generic) Rastafarian/west Indian cultural references.
@@MrDogfish83 Few things in life that annoy more than people who don’t understand the language of satire so we’re definitely on the same page. Just agreeing/expounding on the original commenters observation.
imagining them filming this in the middle of the city has me cackling. the sheer amount of time this must have taken is crazy - it has that trademark digital short feeling of looking like one of those videos you make for a school-assigned PSA about drugs, but at the same time you can tell that TLI put work into it - real comedy genius
I went to UVM so this hits me...I've got to watch this every now then for a laugh...rudeboy living in the shanty dorms always gets me...and me toil part time at ja cold stone creamery
@@seano79 Yes, for sure. Graduated over 15 years ago, but probably hasn't changed much. It's an amazing little city, beautiful, laid-back, what I wouldn't give to know what I know now and go back... I dated a Ras Trent, but he wasn't hokey, he had dreads and sold like 30 pounds of weight a week so for being 20 we were balling...vacations, concerts, cars bought in cash, safety deposit boxes stuffed with just under 10k, we were living the life. I had more money then than I do now...🤯
@@srhbluerain Fellow UVM alum here. 👋 I graduated just a few years ago, and one of my classmates was a definite Ras-Trent. 😄 He was a very chill guy, studying permaculture or something similar, and had a pretty impressive head of dirty-blond locks going.
"A DVD of Cool Runnings" and Angela Lansbury in dreads is something I never knew I needed. 😂😂😂 Honorable Mention: Him walking past actual Rasta dudes getting quiet. Haha incredible!
Oh my god, they edited the song and overdubbed the "Fire pon a batty boy" line into "Fire pon a bizna boy". The original version is still up at the lonely island channel.
Considering they went back in and censored Batty Boy when in this context it isn't as bad. Especially cause the censoring is terrible and obvious even without knowing what's meant to be there
@@XxRadioactiveGirlxX tbh I don’t think they censored batty boy bc it’s a bad word I think they censored it bc it’s homophobic. Like SNL would say asswipe but they wouldn’t say f***ot
This is so good SNL. I have met a few of these types, trustafarian lifestyle Rastas. I have many true Rastafarian friends and I was a Reggae DJ in the UK. I have laughed so hard today watching this. Maybe keeping the words Bomboo claat in was ill advised but still VERY funny, lol@ Murder she wrote, More Ras Trent plz :)
@@happyhogan40 no, Andy's making fun of trust-fund WASPs who found out weed feels good and decided to appropriate a culture they have no respect for nor anything to do with
@@TREES30349 Sounds too coherent for that, but I realised they also do some censoring like that in the new one Sushi Glory Hole. I honestly much prefer that to bleeps or blanking it out. It keeps the rhythm.
this one is a hidden gem in the LI pantheon that captured the white rastafarian wave - every college campus in the mid '90s and early 2000s had at least two of these guys
I'm so excited for them to talk about this one on the pod, I really want to hear them go into all the references and who this is based on. My guess is either Andy or just an aggregate of all the trustafarians at UCSC
I can't wait for them to talk about this on the Lonely Island/Seth Meyers podcast because I need to know if that was an actual college class or just really convincing extras.........
🙋🏽♀️Hi Lonely Island Podcast! I know you guys look up your old videos on UA-cam for the Pod so I just wanted say Andy Samberg, you are a gem and a comedy genius 💕 Celeste and Jesse Forever and Palm Springs are some of my all time favorite movies of all time, MotherLover is my go-to karaoke song, and my husband and I constantly quote Popstar and we are basically Jake and Amy. Thank you for being you 🙌🏽 PS - The dance you and Cristin Milioti do in Palm Springs would’ve been our wedding dance if we were the kind of people that did wedding dances😂
Batty boy pretty much means fag, and I don't mean the kind you smoke - makes sense to censor it as several cultures/countries use it as an insult I think it's always been censored on this channel and uncensored on Lonely Island's one so maybe you heard it there first?
Wish they didnt edit out batty boy. The fact that Trent doesnt know its a term for gay people makes his ignorance funnier. Also, whem he says 'Selassie Eye' instead of Selassie I, i bust out laughing.
It's the context of it. "Fire pon" is Jamaican slang to express hatred towards or the wish to destroy something. So "Fire pon a batty boy" basically means "kill faggots", which is extremely dark and hateful. I don't think Andy or the SNL people really knew what that phrase meant when they originally recorded this.
@@drrockkso8882 That's probably true but I wouldn't be surprised if they wrote the character ignorantly/inadvertently say hate speech since he really doesn't know the language he's adopting (that fits with the overarching joke that it's a dumb college kid trying to be rasta). And then corporate says "we can't have hate speech even out of context"
"Me toil part-time at jah Coldstone Creamery" is one of my fav lyrics ever
heard it a few years ago when this skit first came out and I've never forgotten it. came back just to hear it again. absolutely brilliant.
Lmfao yes!! 🤣
Jah Sprite can is a close second
Reference to producer Jah Snowcone?
@@colinr4860this is one of those songs that never leaves your mind. I'll think about it randomly and have to come back and listen.
The best part: He gets so quiet walking past real Rastafarians.
Exactly! best part of the whole dame short!
Dwl yes 😂😩😩
THE funniest part!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
"EXCUSE I!" 😂😂 I love it!! I love the origin story Andy told about "Excuse I" on the new SNL Doc 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😅😅😅
I love that they just kinda let Andy samberg do whatever he wanted and then aired it.
Well, more like shut him off to Digital Shorts. Rarely he made it to air.
@@Ezoogie all the digital shorts aired. They just are not live. That's why they called them "digital short".
100 %
@@Ezoogie assuming it was snl's command and not a descition he took part in
Thats so true🤣
Walks past legit rastafari *mumbled singing* ROFL
Hysterical
funniest part.
Shy Ronnie has entered the chat hehe
lmao @ his culturally-appropriating ass
When he reads the book about Selassie and is like “Yes!!” 0:44
I love the detail of him pronouncing it "Selassie Eye" and not "Selassie the First" too, it's such a good reference.
Ras Trent might be the single most underrated bit in SNL history.
I'm still watching it in 2024 it's probably the funniest thing they did for decades
@@erikgilson1687 who knew SNL would blo its load with the Lonely Island contributions. All Downhill after that
Probably because it is so regional. Like this would KILL among people in NYC, but not so much in the rest of the country where there isn't such a big Jamaican diaspora. Here in the Caribbean though, it's hilarious. They absolutely did their research.
Little known fact: Ras Trent is a distant cousin of Eric Wareheim's best friend, Raz. Think he works at Wred Lobster.
As a jamaican... I am dying with laugh😂😂😂
They literally got Robbie Shakespeare to play bass on this song who recorded something like 2000 reggae songs. Unlike Ras Trent, they didn't just get someone to copy the style, they got the real deal.
No one asked
@@MyNameJeff.. how's your miserable life going? Mom didn't hug you enough?
I miss The Lonely Island.
Raul Mejia
They still exist!
they need to make another album like Icredibad or Turtleneck & Chain😞
Check out their podcasts
You've all now met my roommate in undergrad at the university of western ontario.
Guess he transferred there from Carleton... My neighbour was a guy named Trent, with dreads, that shirt, an unforgettable funk (B.O., patchouli, and stale pizza), and while it wasn't Cold Stone creamery, he toiled part time at a Roots store.
GTA, here. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I went to high school with that guy in the 90s.
@@betenoire77 Who then graduated and became my cohort at The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington😂
Are you an ignorant baldhead?
He did this so well!!! Idk which Jamaican Rasta he learned all this from but it was pretty spot on.
But he’s not parodying Jamaican Rastas, he’s parodying college kids trying to be Rastafarian. And THAT he got spot on
@@MrDogfish83 agreed but in that he also tapped into a lot of common, surface level (some might say generic) Rastafarian/west Indian cultural references.
@@crispyflix that's just integral to parodying college kids trying to be rastafarian...
@@MrDogfish83 Few things in life that annoy more than people who don’t understand the language of satire so we’re definitely on the same page. Just agreeing/expounding on the original commenters observation.
@@klaatubarada7556 isn't that posh ville?
This never fails to bring a smile to my face.
imagining them filming this in the middle of the city has me cackling. the sheer amount of time this must have taken is crazy - it has that trademark digital short feeling of looking like one of those videos you make for a school-assigned PSA about drugs, but at the same time you can tell that TLI put work into it - real comedy genius
You had me at "brring-ding-ding-ding woahh".
I find it hilarious how much research went into Rastafarinism to make this song and then all the generic Jamaican stuff
True, but we call it Rastafari, with no ism.
Hes making fun of people trying hard to be shit they know nothing about and should not be trying to be...
Err do you mean half an hour eavesdropping in a college bar and listening to 1 compilation album? ;-)
"Murder She Wrote" gets me everytime. lol
1:44 is the best part, walking by the OGs while singing under his breath 🤣
There was always one guy like this in every college mid 2000’s
Bada ding ding ding ding whoaaaa!!! 😂😂😂
Are you there Jah? It's me, Ras Trent
Please guide me pon your bike path of righteousness 🤣🤣
As someone from the Caribbean this is spot on… 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I went to UVM so this hits me...I've got to watch this every now then for a laugh...rudeboy living in the shanty dorms always gets me...and me toil part time at ja cold stone creamery
There's other comments about VT on here too LOL. Burlington definitely has some Ras Trent's!
@@seano79 Yes, for sure. Graduated over 15 years ago, but probably hasn't changed much. It's an amazing little city, beautiful, laid-back, what I wouldn't give to know what I know now and go back... I dated a Ras Trent, but he wasn't hokey, he had dreads and sold like 30 pounds of weight a week so for being 20 we were balling...vacations, concerts, cars bought in cash, safety deposit boxes stuffed with just under 10k, we were living the life. I had more money then than I do now...🤯
@@srhbluerain Fellow UVM alum here. 👋 I graduated just a few years ago, and one of my classmates was a definite Ras-Trent. 😄 He was a very chill guy, studying permaculture or something similar, and had a pretty impressive head of dirty-blond locks going.
Yes! I went to grad school at UVM and lived in Burlington for 7 years. Many Ras Trents in the area. 😂
the bald head part gets me everytime :)
His Barrington Levy sample was amazing 😄
"A DVD of Cool Runnings" and Angela Lansbury in dreads is something I never knew I needed. 😂😂😂
Honorable Mention: Him walking past actual Rasta dudes getting quiet. Haha incredible!
I literally just discovered this today due to the Avatar 2 Honest Trailer 😆😆😭😭😭
Same
Same and I love snl 🤣
Saaaame!!!
Perfect reference.
This is so old lol
Rude boy living in an golden era
Oh my god, they edited the song and overdubbed the "Fire pon a batty boy" line into "Fire pon a bizna boy". The original version is still up at the lonely island channel.
Yessss Andy callin out the BS through humor. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i fucking love andy
Difference between this and the lonely island copy is that someone looked up the definition of batty boy
I heard this years ago, now I listen to it everyday and bop away. GOLD
Excuse I but this is forever hilarious
Song is just as good today as when it aired. Just as true too lol.
I just found this a few weeks ago and now I watch it almost every day😂
Haha same. Can’t get it out I head.
I am Jamaican and SNL.....I enjoyed it.. Big Up Ras Trent and for the record Bomboo claat is a curse/bad word..hahahaaha...Ohhh SNL..you guys...:)
I know right.
its a pretty tame one tho pretty much like calling some one and ass wipe
Dubbsteppa21 no in their culture it's a serious insult
Considering they went back in and censored Batty Boy when in this context it isn't as bad. Especially cause the censoring is terrible and obvious even without knowing what's meant to be there
@@XxRadioactiveGirlxX tbh I don’t think they censored batty boy bc it’s a bad word I think they censored it bc it’s homophobic. Like SNL would say asswipe but they wouldn’t say f***ot
This is so good SNL. I have met a few of these types, trustafarian lifestyle Rastas.
I have many true Rastafarian friends and I was a Reggae DJ in the UK. I have laughed so hard today watching this. Maybe keeping the words Bomboo claat in was ill advised but still VERY funny, lol@ Murder she wrote, More Ras Trent plz :)
why it basically just means arse wipe
Skidili woaah.
You do know he's making fun of yall right?
@@happyhogan40 no, Andy's making fun of trust-fund WASPs who found out weed feels good and decided to appropriate a culture they have no respect for nor anything to do with
@@mateostenberg yes I know
Badaringdingdingdongadingdong Duck!!!
😂😂😂
It takes me back to 80's, the Vershire School VT, all these Hamptons country club dudes, walking around being rasta hippies
First time I watch this I was like what the heck did they do. Now that I've watched it 30 times this is genius😂😂😂😂
0:25 wait a minute, they changed the slur for this version, I wonder if the censors caught it at the time
He’s so good-natured about it about that you end up loving him
OMG!!! I love Andy Samberg!!! He is hillarious and sooo cute!! jajajaja the best of current SNL!!
lol
He starred in a really good British sitcom called Cuckoo that came out a while back.
Can we all just acknowledge that the beat was actually pretty good??
I wonder who composed the actual music for this lol its banging and gets stuck in my head from time to time
@@westernmonk6036 Probably Jorma, Andy and Akiva
@@westernmonk6036it was Jamaican producers Sly and Robbie
See above regarding the bass player. Legit reggae bass player
Keeping the 'bumbo claat' and editing the 'b**** bwoy' was funny to me - hey, they edited me too!
I see they edited out "Fire pon a Batty Boy!!"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What do they say instead?
@@Mgfaulkner793 don't really know.. it sounds like they reversed the audio...
@@TREES30349 Sounds too coherent for that, but I realised they also do some censoring like that in the new one Sushi Glory Hole. I honestly much prefer that to bleeps or blanking it out. It keeps the rhythm.
SNOW: "this MF'r Spitten"
That was hilarious 🤣
#informer
This has aged like fine wine.
Or skanky ganja.
These people still exist!
If the smell of his OWN HAIR is making him recoil there's no way I'd go to Ja coldstone creamery while he's working. Sorry Ras Trent.
Ngl this is one of favorite sketches
Here in 2025 coming back to this
this one is a hidden gem in the LI pantheon that captured the white rastafarian wave - every college campus in the mid '90s and early 2000s had at least two of these guys
I remember when this dropped. I was so young. I made it my Myspace profile song
Might’ve single handedly ended trustsfarianism
Forgot about this excellent short. Needed a good laugh. 💕
Honest Trailers brought me back here 🤣
this is perfection
“Badingdingdingding woahhhhh.” Love that line🤣🤣
I'm so excited for them to talk about this one on the pod, I really want to hear them go into all the references and who this is based on. My guess is either Andy or just an aggregate of all the trustafarians at UCSC
how does this blessing of a video with ANDY SAMBURG only have 200k views
would love to see a movie of ras trent
Cuckoo comes close
That annoyed guy at the left computer 1:39
Dung Ding Dong - Duck!
Actually the song is way better than a lot of grammy winners
Damn you screen junkies, why did you have to remind me of ras Trent on the avatar 2 honest trailer. Now i can't stop replaying this song. 🤦🏽♀️
Fussing and fighting and Zion and Roots😂
That shits deep.
EXCUSE IIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
NIABINGHIIIIIIII!!!!!!!
I AM DYING... I LOVE THIS SO MUCH🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can't wait for them to talk about this on the Lonely Island/Seth Meyers podcast because I need to know if that was an actual college class or just really convincing extras.........
It's the episode I'm most looking forward to
He like-a island boyee jus tryin to makeee ittt
Somebody said he just won a Grammy 😂
Lol its a joke. This guy isn’t good, they’re basically comparing the actual winner to this. 😩😩😩😂
@@teeyateeyah233 Duh. lol
lmao 🤦🏽♀️
🤣🤣🤣 “ JAH COLD STONE CREAMERY
I don’t understand this at all but it makes me laugh .
whats so hard to understand bro
That brass ensemble is stacked!!!
Kinda wild that in a parallel universe, Andy never abandoned this look.
Live footage from Humboldt State University 😭
🙋🏽♀️Hi Lonely Island Podcast! I know you guys look up your old videos on UA-cam for the Pod so I just wanted say Andy Samberg, you are a gem and a comedy genius 💕 Celeste and Jesse Forever and Palm Springs are some of my all time favorite movies of all time, MotherLover is my go-to karaoke song, and my husband and I constantly quote Popstar and we are basically Jake and Amy. Thank you for being you 🙌🏽 PS - The dance you and Cristin Milioti do in Palm Springs would’ve been our wedding dance if we were the kind of people that did wedding dances😂
Issa fire instrumental though!
I love this tremendously
Who's here after Honest Trailers: Avatar 2?
0:26 they've changed it from Batty boy to beaster boy, am I right people, what's up with that?!!!!
It's called "wokeism".
Batty boy pretty much means fag, and I don't mean the kind you smoke - makes sense to censor it as several cultures/countries use it as an insult
I think it's always been censored on this channel and uncensored on Lonely Island's one so maybe you heard it there first?
I'm convinced every campus had a few Trents
few??
I'm slowly becoming one
this is jamaican approved btw we love this, its a classic
Censored out batty boy? but leave in bumbaclot? Very very interesting.
Marc Conidaris yes, seriously I noticed that too :)
well batty boy can be an offensive way to call someone gay and a bumbaclot is basically toilet paper so makes sense really
"Batty boy" is specifically an anti-gay slur, whereas "bomboclaat" is more just a general expletive.
@@Dubbsteppa21 lmao BBC isn't toilet paper 🤣🤣🤣. It's an expletive yes, but it's roots are in Africa referring to a type of drum
@@cheesezees1423 Who told you that nonsense?
I've never done this before but who's here from the Avatar 2 Honest Trailer?
The spit and hand roll. Classic.
Badadingdingdingding woaaaahhhhhhhh🎼🎼😂😂😂
95% of the audience in house and wayching at home probably had no idea wtf was going on here, even at the time this was such a specific type of dude
Legit 75% of the population in Western Massachusetts and Vermont lolz.
Listened to this yesterday after not hearing it for years. Now I remember why. This is the stickiest of ear worms. Woe is me. Skibidi whoa.
I catch myself saying bada dingdingdingding woahh to this day.
Can’t get it out of my head 😂 Ja are you there it’s me Ras Trent
The best bit is “You know wan test me champion sound!”
Wish they didnt edit out batty boy. The fact that Trent doesnt know its a term for gay people makes his ignorance funnier.
Also, whem he says 'Selassie Eye' instead of Selassie I, i bust out laughing.
It's the context of it. "Fire pon" is Jamaican slang to express hatred towards or the wish to destroy something. So "Fire pon a batty boy" basically means "kill faggots", which is extremely dark and hateful. I don't think Andy or the SNL people really knew what that phrase meant when they originally recorded this.
@@drrockkso8882 That's probably true but I wouldn't be surprised if they wrote the character ignorantly/inadvertently say hate speech since he really doesn't know the language he's adopting (that fits with the overarching joke that it's a dumb college kid trying to be rasta). And then corporate says "we can't have hate speech even out of context"
So good
Big up Ras Trent.
As a huge Lonely Island fan I feel offended by the fact that I’m just finally coming across this in 2020
You just found this?! 😀
This was on their first album. Huge fan, my ass.
That's because you are a "huge" poser.
"Excuse I"
This is a 100% accurate depiction of rastafarians and their beliefs/life
excuse I 😂😂😂
Went to the ED with my godson Saturday; Ras Trent's sister was the triage RN
😂😂😂😂
Ppl love Lazy Sunday, but Ras Trent spit
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥