Andy Samberg has come a long way from being the guy with funny hair on SNL and has even made a recent returned to the show with new songs. He’s managed to take over primetime TV with Brooklyn Nine-Nine and he’s even scored a couple of movie hits at the box office. Samberg continues to work with friends from his childhood including his Lonely Island cohorts. On this list, we’ve put together some of the most interesting Andy Samberg trivia that you might not know.
He Knows That It's Weird Being a White Rapper
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Even though he presents himself as an aloof character in Hot Rod and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Samberg is well aware of the pratfalls that come along with being a white comedy rapper. "Doing raps for comedy if you’re a white person is a very slippery slope, because it's not really your place. And also because most people who try it aren’t good at it; they just don’t sound good."- Photo:
He Was a Stand Up Comic for Seven Years
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Before making it onto SNL and hitting it big in his digital shorts, Samberg was a stand up for almost a decade, and apparently he spent most of his time on stage eating it. "The cardinal rule of comedy is, if no one’s laughing, it’s your fault, not their fault. I was so hammered and bombing so hard that I forgot the cardinal rule and it got very uncomfortable. But there were two people in the audience laughing real hard, and that was [his Lonely Island buddies] Kiv and Jorm."- Photo:
He Owes His Success to Spin City
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One of Samberg's first jobs was on the ABC show Spin City where he worked as an assistant. While working there he showed some of his videos to his boss, who introduced him to an agent, who got him a job writing for the MTV Movie Awards that were hosted by Jimmy Fallon. It was Jimmy Fallon who introduced Samberg to Lorne Michaels.- Photo:
He Reads the Comments
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For some reason, Andy Samberg still feels the need to read Internet comments. He says the thing that makes him okay with negative commenters is that every SNL alumni's IMDb page was full of negative posts. "I checked Ferrell's page, Jack Black's page, Sandler's page — and all of them had pages and pages of people talking about how sh***y they were, and how not funny they were, and how they wish they would just go away, and all this really mean shit. And I was like, Oh, I'm on the right track."- Photo:
He Left SNL Because He Hit a Wall
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When he was asked straight up by Glamour why he left Saturday Night Live, he gave a very interesting answer. "For the first time working there, I just hit a wall, emotionally and physically. I needed to start having a life again."- Photo:
The Lonely Island Met When They Were in Sixth Grade
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The three friends that went on to be fake rappers forged their friendship when they met in sixth grade. When they finally moved out of their parents' houses and went to college they named their apartment "The Lonely Island."
While speaking with Vulture about getting his job on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he says it took him a few days to say yes to the project because he had to run it by the guys in his fake rap group, The Lonely Island. "I needed to talk to them. Our goal and hope is to still be working together for our whole lives. We all give each other s*** any time one of us takes a job and the other two aren’t involved, it's just the nature of being three best friends."
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