Andy Samberg

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4.5 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Andy Samberg arrived at Saturday Night Live as a Featured Player in the fall of 2005, and within a couple of months he shook up the legendary show and brought it into the digital age. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the SNL alum about his time on the show and those infamous digital shorts that he produced with his comedy group “The Lonely Island.” Samberg also talks about the new season of his hit NBC comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and the fans who kept the show alive after it was canceled on Fox.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:07.0	Andy Sandberg, such a good time sitting down with him.
0:11.2	We got together.
0:12.2	Of course, the Saturday night live along, you don't need me to tell you that.
0:15.4	He was fresh off his hosting of the Golden Globe Awards and now the return to NBC were
0:21.3	proud to say of his comedy Brooklyn 9.9.
0:24.6	Remember, it was canceled off Fox after five seasons.
0:28.2	He's like, all right, my show's over.
0:29.6	What's my next move?
0:31.2	There's this grassroots ground swell of support for the show.
0:35.3	People get online, including celebrities like Mark Hamill, who was Luke Skywalker.
0:39.0	Of course, Lynn Manuel Miranda, the creator and the star of Hamilton.
0:44.6	And a bunch of other celebrities got online and said, you cannot do this.
0:47.4	We need our Brooklyn 9.9.
0:49.0	The show was saved within the space of about 30 hours, I think he said.
0:53.2	It was back on TV picked up by NBC now airing in its sixth season there.
0:59.0	Interesting too, the backstory on Andy of how he got to SNL.
1:02.9	He was a writer at the MTV Movie Awards for Jimmy Fallon in 2005.
1:08.2	Jimmy Fallon goes back to Lauren Michaels, the creator of SNL and says these guys are hilarious.
1:12.6	Sandberg and his two buddies, the Lonely Island guys, as they're known.
1:16.0	And they get hired and basically revolutionize the show.
1:19.4	They make these digital shorts.
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