The beloved Saturday Night Live short, “Natalie’s Rap,” starring Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman, has turned 20!
The digital short, which originally aired on March 4, 2006, featured a fictionalized version of Portman being interviewed by a reporter played by then-SNL cast member Chris Parnell. In the short, Portman shared unexpected and very explicit details about her daily life.
SNL fans shared their appreciation for the digital short in a March 4 Reddit thread. Quite a few commenters stated that the moment from SNL‘s 31st season still holds up.
“I used to watch this almost every day when it first came out lol,” wrote a commenter.
“This is amazing,” added another.
“i’ve seen maybe a handful of good SNL sketches in the last 20 years but nothing will compare to this,” shared a different person.
“All these years later and I still remember all the lyrics. Iconic,” chimed in a fan.
“This goes so hard,” shared a commenter.
Seth Meyers & Members of The Lonely Island Shared Details About Natalie Portman’s Digital Short
“Natalie’s Rap” was written by the comedy group The Lonely Island, which consists of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. Samberg, Schaffer, and Taccone, who all began working at SNL in 2005, discussed the digital short during a 2024 episode of their and Seth Meyers‘ podcast, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast.
Meyers, who was an SNL cast member and head writer, described the digital short as “a seminal moment in celebrity rap history.”
According to Taccone, Portman, who was a fan of The Lonely Island’s 2005 digital short “Lazy Sunday,” had told the trio that she was interested in performing a rap song while hosting her SNL episode.
“Natalie came in, it was on Monday, and was like, ‘Hey, let’s do a song.’ And she wanted to do a rap song, as I recall. But we were like, ‘I don’t know if we can do that. You got to come kind of hard if you’re going to do that,'” said Taccone.
Taccone said that Portman responded by performing a Lil’ Kim rap, which impressed him, Samberg, and Schaffer. The group then began writing “Natalie’s Rap,” which they thought would be hilarious as fans of the Harvard graduate wouldn’t expect her to be so crass.
“She was the princess in those Star Warsmovies and she had graduated from Harvard and everybody thought she was perfect, it had to go as far as it could go,” said Schaffer on the podcast episode.
Samberg, Schaffer, and Taccone also shared that the song was in homage to Eazy-E‘s “No More ?’s” and Sir Mix-a-Lot‘s “Posse’ on Broadway.”
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