We have ceremony for our leaders in the United States, but it's a much more serious matter when dealing with royalty. So it's quite different to hear about all the understood social etiquette in the UK should one get the opportunity to meet the Queen. On 'The Tonight Show' (Weeknights, 11:35PM ET on NBC), Simon Pegg revealed how those social expectations led to a very awkward encounter.

"I thought she had broken," he said of Queen Elizabeth II. She came to the Royal Premiere of 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,' in which Pegg voiced a mouse. But when she came up to him, she simply stood in front of him for a while and stared at him.

Lawyers. They're the real "Debbie Downers" of this world. The fellas over at YouTube have been told by NBC that they can no longer play the now-infamous Lazy Sunday rap from SNL. That rap was huge for SNL, which has been at rock bottom for several years now. After it aired on Dec. 17, Lazy Sunday spread rapidly on the web, including at YouTube, which reportedly had 1.2 million downloads of the video within ten days. The popularity of the rap led to an article in the New York Times about the song and the "viral" power the internet has when people think something is cool. NBC finally got a clue and put the video on its website (for Windows users only) and in iTunes, where it now costs $1.99 to download.

Boing Boing has a really good argument about why NBC should be "sending flowers and chocolates to YouTube, not love notes from lawyers."

Here's my message to the internet: stop trying to rip off the Narnia rap from SNL!

It was hilarious. You are not.

Case in point: Mark Feuerstein (from Good Morning, Miami) and Adam Stein launched an East Coast/West Coast rap battle with SNL'ers Andy Samburg and Chris Parnell, the geniuses behind the Lazy Sunday, aka Chronic-what?-cles of Narnia rap video.

Boys, you really shouldn't enter into a battle you cannot win. The two 'Steins created a West Coast version of the rap, called Lazy Monday (because no one in L.A. has a job). They take their bad asses to drink Macchiatos and paint pottery at a Color Me Mine store. It's not nearly as funny, or as catchy of a tune as the Narnia rap.

Nothing beats the original.

[Via Pop Candy]

This link's been floating around the web since Sunday, but I figured it would be good to post this here. If you missed Saturday night's SNL (I did; I was actually out having a life for once) but want to see the "Lazy Sunday" sketch -- otherwize known as the "Chronicles of Narnia Rap", you can see it here. I must say, it's inspired, and it's one of the best things I've seen on SNL in a number of years. So, if I were taking that poll we set up on who's leaving the show, I'd probably not vote for Chris Parnell, just so the show can pair him up with Andy Samberg for another rap.

Oh, the video's also at NBC's site for the show.

Thanks to Tom Biro for the screen cap and for pointing me to the lyrics, which have been posted at Gothamist.