SNL‘s Taran Killam Explains The Backstory Behind His Famous Robyn Recreation

We live in a new media age. If you want proof, then how about the fact that the moment that best defined Taran Killam as one of the most promising young cast members on Saturday Night Live didn’t occur on the set (sorry, Tim Tebow impression) but rather on an online-only video filmed late one night in an SNL writers room. It wasn’t even a sketch. It was a video of Killam and other cast members and writers engaging in a goofy recreation of then-musical guest Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” video. A new video, taken backstage at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, shows Killam explaining the backstory of how the video came to be.

Yes, this is a post about a web-only video explaining the history of another web-only video. We clearly live in a new media age.

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Killam (who had already shown off his dancing skills on the show in the “Les Jeunes de Paris” sketches) explains that he hadn’t heard Robyn’s song before she was set to appear. However, after watching the music video, he became obsessed with it and began interrupting writing sessions to play it until they all finally agreed to just make their own.

Watch the new video from Late Night below and then the original recreation below that:

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