Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg
About Andy
Andy Samberg (born August 18th, 1978 in Berkeley, California), also known as Ardy, is a stand-up comic and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. He is also a featured player on Saturday Night Live. Samberg has also gained exposure on the Comedy Central series Premium Blend, performing a brief stand-up routine.
The Lonely Island
The Lonely Island (which also includes Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) has a popular website where they make their sketches and music available for download. Samberg played the role of Aaron in The OC parody The 'Bu, the group's popular contribution to Channel 101. They also made a pilot for Fox called Awesometown and have written for various award shows, most notably the 2004 and 2005 MTV Movie Awards.
Saturday Night Live
On September 13, 2005, the Lonely Island website confirmed that Samberg would be joining Saturday Night Live as a featured player, while Schaffer and Taccone would join the show's writing staff.
Samberg's first appearance was a commercial parodying Morgan Stanley. While his live sketch role was limited in his first year, he did a few non-live sketches. He starred in a parody commercial for lettuce, in which he and Will Forte were having a serious discussion about the death of a friend while taking large bites out of heads of lettuce during lulls in the conversation. For the December 17, 2005 show, he and Chris Parnell starred in a Digital Short called Lazy Sunday, from which Samberg and the show gained significant media and public attention.
Samberg has had more prominence in non-live segments over live segments overall, including appearing as a taco restaurant patron along with Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis in the commercial parody Taco Town, Jack Johnson in a fake commercial for casual shoes shaped like feet, a young Chuck Norris, a hardcore gangster rapper in Viking apparel alongside Natalie Portman, a parody commercial for lettuce in which he and Will Forte took large bites out of heads of lettuce during lulls while discussing a friend's death, and in a game of spotting doppelgÅ ngers which results in Samberg being suddenly and illogically shot by friends when he cannot be told apart from a large homeless man (portrayed by Horatio Sanz). Another prominent digital short for Samberg was on the Tom Hanks/Red Hot Chili Peppers episode where he and Hanks play lead singers to a fictional 1990's techno band called Ariel and Efrim. Samberg also gained some fame on a live show sketch on the Julia Louis-Dreyfus/Paul Simon episode where Samberg plays a Learning Annex teacher who heads a class on how to use MySpace where the students are male sexual predators (played by Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis, Chris Parnell, Seth Meyers, and Will Forte) and a clueless soccer mom (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus).
Samberg was upgraded to repertory status at the beginning of SNL's 32 season (September 30, 2006).
Celebrity Impersonations
» Jack Johnson
» Bright Eyes
» David Blaine
» Michael Sessions
» Chuck Norris
» Dustin Diamond
Trivia
» Samberg is a Berkeley High School graduate, class of 1996.
» Had a cameo in the second season finale of Arrested Development "Righteous Brothers" as the stage manager for the Blue Man Group at the end of the episode.
» After writing for the 2004 and 2005 MTV Movie Awards, Samberg had a cameo in a sketch during the 2006 broadcast, where he played Ron Google, the fictitious founder of the popular search engine.
» Samberg attended both University of California, Santa Cruz, and New York University as a film student.
» Is filming his first feature film "Hot Rod" for Paramount in Vancouver, British Columbia.
» In the first episode entitled "White Power" there is a scene where the 3 characters mug an old lady. During filming of the scene, actor Kiefer Sutherland was driving by. Thinking the mugging was real he pulled over in an attempt to help only to later realize he had interupted the filming.
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