Andy Samberg is an American comedian, actor, musician, producer and writer. He is famous mostly due to « Saturday Night Live » and «Brooklyn Nine-Nine».
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- His real name is David A. J. Samberg.
- He was born on August 18th, 1978.
- Samberg was born in Berkeley, California.
- His mother, Marjorie “Margi”, is a retired teacher, who taught at John Muir Elementary School, and his father, Joe Samberg, is a photographer.
- He has two sisters, Johanna and Darrow.
- At age 5, he told his parents that he wanted to change his name to Andy.
- Andy Samberg was raised in a Jewish family and considers himself “not particularly religious.”
- He also has Italian heritageHe attended Chabot Elementary School with his future Brooklyn Nine Nine co-star Chelsea Peretti (Gina).
- He is an American comedian, actor, musician, producer and writer.
- He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island.
- He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012, where he and his fellow group members are credited with popularizing the SNL Digital Shorts.
- Andy Samberg has starred in several films, including Hot Rod (2007), I Love You, Man (2009), That’s My Boy (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), and Palm Springs (2020).
- And Samberg has had lead voice roles in Space Chimps (2008), the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs film series (2009–2013), the Hotel Transylvania film series (2012–2022), Storks (2016), and Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022).
- From 2013 to 2021, he starred as Jake Peralta in the Fox, and later NBC, police sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Andy Samberg also produced Brooklyn 99.
- For his work on the show, he was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2013.
- In a 2019 episode of Finding Your Roots, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Samberg discovered that his mother Marjorie, who was adopted by Jewish parents, is the biological daughter of a Sicilian (Italian) Catholic father named Salvatore Maida, who immigrated in 1925, and a German-Jewish refugee mother named Ellen Philipsborn, who had come to the US in 1938; they met in San Francisco.
- Andy Samberg is a third cousin of US Senator Tammy Baldwi.
- His adoptive maternal grandfather was industrial psychologist and philanthropist Alfred J. Marrow.
- Samberg graduated from Berkeley High School in 1996.
- During his studies he became interested in creative writing and has stated that writing classes “were the ones that [he] put all [his] effort into… that’s what [he] cared about and that’s what [he] ended up doing”.
- He attended college at University of California, Santa Cruz for two years before transferring to New York University (NYU)’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated in 2000.
- While at NYU, writer Murray Miller was his roommate.
- In September 2005, Samberg joined Saturday Night Live as a featured player and writer. Similarly, Schaffer and Taccone joined the show’s writing staff. Though his live sketch roles were limited in his first year, he appeared in many prerecorded sketches including commercial parodies and various other filmed segments.
- On December 17, 2005, he co-starred with castmate Chris Parnell in the Digital Short show “Lazy Sunday”, a hip hop song about a quest to see the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The short became an Internet phenomenon and garnered Samberg significant media and public attention.
- Acclaim continued, especially for “Dick in a Box”, a duet with Justin Timberlake that won a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
- The video for his comedy troupe’s collaboration with T-Pain, “I’m on a Boat”, had over 56 million views on YouTube, after debuting on February 7, 2009. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award.
- Another digital short, “Motherlover”, also featuring Timberlake, was released on May 10, 2009, to commemorate Mother’s Day, and it is a sequel of “Dick in a Box”.
- Outside of his prerecorded segments, he participated in recurring live segments, such as his Blizzard Man sketch.
- On June 1, 2012, Samberg’s spokesperson announced that Samberg had left the show.He returned to the show to host the Season 39 finale in 2014, and to host the 40th anniversary special’s Digital Short.
- Samberg is married to musician Joanna Newsom.
- He once described himself as a “superfan”, and they met at one of her concerts.
- After five years of dating, Samberg proposed to her in February 2013, and they married on September 21, 2013 in Big Sur, California.
- Saturday Night Live co-star Seth Meyers served as Samberg’s groomsman.
- In March 2014, Samberg and Newsom purchased the Moorcrest estate in the Beachwood Canyon area of Los Angeles, California, which was associated with various historical figures: in the 1920s, it was owned by the parents of actress Mary Astor; and, prior to that Charlie Chaplin rented the estate.
- The couple also own a home in Manhattan’s West Village.
- They announced the birth of their daughter on August 8, 2017.
- Samberg, who grew up in the East Bay, is a fan of the Oakland Athletics and the Golden State Warriors.
- 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.”
- For some reason nand despite his fame, Andy Samberg still feels the need to read Internet comments- mstly the negative ones.
- 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.”
- When Samberg married his longtime love Joanna Newsome, he invited his That’s My Boy co-star Adam Sandler, but wasn’t sure if he would attend. Lo and behold Sandler did show up, but as his character from the movie.
- In 2015 Samberg starred in the HBO special 7 Days in Hell, a short film about a ridiculously long tennis match that devolves into madness. According to the SNL alum, the idea had been around since he attended summer camp.
- If you’re lucky enough to live near an Umami Burger in LA you can get a Samburger.
- His signature burger has all the traditional toppings of a Chicago dog, even though Andy’s not from Chicago.
- 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.”
- When asked by The Hollywood Reporter if he’d be interested in hosting The Golden Globes he answered as if it was a given. “Of course, are you kidding me? Any comedian would.”
- Back before Samberg and Lonely Island bros were hired to write for Saturday Night Live, they had a pilot called Awesometown that they shopped around Los Angeles until everyone passed on it.
- When asked about it by NYMag Samberg said “Fox passed. We took it to Comedy Central. They passed. MTV? Passed. MTV2? Passed.”
- He Admits That His Song “Shrooms” Isn’t Great
- 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.”
- According to Samberg, he wasn’t in the running for the lead role on Brooklyn Nine-Nine until the producers saw him in the Rashida Jones-penned romantic comedy.
- “Mike Schur told me that when he saw Celeste and Jesse Forever, it made him think of me for this show. He said, ‘I had always found things you did on SNL funny, but after I saw Celeste and Jesse I thought maybe you can act a little bit, too.'”
- Andy Samberg gave a speech to the graduating Harvard class of 2012, but he never attended Harvard.
- Paying tribute to the graduating Harvard class of 2012, Samberg opens his speech by saying: “I’m honoured to be here today as I am unqualified’ – and it continues to unfold hilariously from there.
- 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.
- When trying to cast an English guy to be an Andy Murray type character for 7 Days in Hell, he Googled “young British actors between the ages of 25 to 35” and things just sort of worked out. So, Google kinda helped him to cast Kit Harrington.
- Andy Samberg Doesn’t Want To Join TikTok Because He Thinks He’s Too Old.
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