NBC Snatches Back ‘Lazy Sunday’

Sometimes you read about something so stupid it makes your brain hurt:

Earlier this week, NBC asked YouTube.com to take the video down. Web surfers wanting to see the clip yet again will have to go to NBC.com, where the network has posted a copy.

Bloggers—the ones who made the video a hit in the first place—are grumbling that “Lazy Sunday” now doesn’t play on non-Windows computers. Fortunately, NBC’s lawyers evidently don’t know about Google Video yet. Whoops.

Remember “Lazy Sunday”? The video clip from SNL that became an overnight internet sensation and was seen by more internet surfers than ever watched it on broadcast TV? Yeah, that one. Sometimes as we watch these TV executives slice open the golden goose we wonder to ourselves how much they will be kicking themselves a year from now.

Would someone please call up NBC and give them a clue?