Y3K

First off, let me say that I love the music of the "Year 3000" sketches on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and the cinematography of it, but I have never found it funny. I'm told that in the 1990s the skit was "In the year 2000..." but now that 2000 has come and gone, it had to be moved up. I can only imagine that La Bamba's song had the same melody, and the year 3000 is futuristic enough without requiring a significant change to his song. But the humor hasn't been adjusted to match that far-off time frame. Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter frequently mention in the context of the skit present-day celebrities who will certainly be dead by the year 3000. For me at least, that's enough to distract my funny bone.