SNL Digital Short: Ras Trent - Saturday Night Live

A Rastafarian melody for the Quad. Aired 10/25/08

[brianharvey]

"Me toil part-time at jah Coldstone Creamery" is one of my fav lyrics ever

[hulk]

The best part: He gets so quiet walking past real Rastafarians.

[quartzhyalos]

Walks past legit rastafari *mumbled singing* ROFL

[SONICgokuverine]

Ras Trent might be the single most underrated bit in SNL history.

[aboutkimmy]

I love that they just kinda let Andy samberg do whatever he wanted and then aired it.

[breakercassidy]

When he reads the book about Selassie and is like “Yes!!” 0:44

[johnnytorotno]

You've all now met my roommate in undergrad at the university of western ontario.

[ShowsOn]

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.

[MydasMacro]

As a jamaican... I am dying with laugh😂😂😂

[samanthag]

He did this so well!!! Idk which Jamaican Rasta he learned all this from but it was pretty spot on.

[mattmendoza]

I find it hilarious how much research went into Rastafarinism to make this song and then all the generic Jamaican stuff

[greenday]

There was always one guy like this in every college mid 2000’s

[lillianagrinberg]

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

[LaDracul]

This never fails to bring a smile to my face.

[Ninjamohawk]

1:44 is the best part, walking by the OGs while singing under his breath 🤣

[Hedra]

"Murder She Wrote" gets me everytime. lol

[corbinowens]

I literally just discovered this today due to the Avatar 2 Honest Trailer 😆😆😭😭😭

[solamon]

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.

[srhbluerain]

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

[dylanhuculak]

You had me at "brring-ding-ding-ding woahh".