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    Andy Samberg’s ‘SNL’ Return Was the Good Lonely Island Homecoming

    David GroveBy David GroveFebruary 13, 20255 Mins Read
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    We’re celebrating 50 years of “Saturday Night time Dwell“! All this week, we’re digging into the late-night comedy establishment with new tales, together with lists, essays, interviews, and extra.

    Again within the early aughts, when The Lonely Island exploded on “Saturday Night time Dwell” and a germinating viral web, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer would churn out foolish ear worms weekly. It was a mixture of songs they wrote within the strain cooker of “SNL” and others that they had been engaged on over breaks and sporadic studio periods — which is what occurred in 2024 with new releases “Sushi Glory Gap” and “Right here I Go.”

    “Lorne had requested me to return again for the Doug Emhoff stuff, for the election protection,” Samberg instructed IndieWire over the cellphone. “We occurred to have some songs able to go, and there’s no place we’d fairly put a video than ‘SNL.’ It’s the place we began, and the place I really feel like folks can be probably the most excited to see them. It simply type of labored out fantastically.”

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    The timing additionally labored out in confluence with “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast,” which kicked off in April of 2024 with Meyers and the trio revisiting their library of songs and movies. “An sudden byproduct of getting pressured into doing the podcast was that then abruptly we had been speaking about ‘SNL’ in actual time once more — which was actually cool and thrilling, I can’t lie,” stated Samberg. “It gave it a special type of urgency for that stretch.”

    “Sushi Glory Gap” got here from Schaffer, an current concept however extra importantly an unforgettable phrase that “he stored simply saying to make me snicker,” Samberg recalled. Finally (presumably after a number of “The place you going? Hear me out”), Samberg relented. “I used to be like, ‘All proper, high-quality. Fuck it. Let’s simply write it. I don’t know what it’s, however I just like the title,’” he stated.

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    They started constructing out the music, however Samberg nonetheless wasn’t fairly positive. It took stepping away and returning to it, discovering an increasing number of moments to snicker, and that earnestly repeated phrase to make all of it come collectively. “The ‘Hear me out’ was truly the very last thing added to it, and that’s what kind of unlocked it creatively for us, if I’m being sincere,” he stated. “That’s once we each determined like, ‘Oh yeah, we should always do that music,’ as a result of now they’ve this loopy rhythm of telling folks to listen to them out approach earlier than anybody has protested.”

    “Right here I Go” got here from Samberg and Taccone’s brother Asa — a longtime Lonely Island collaborator — who offered the preliminary monitor that Samberg began writing to and Schaffer additionally helped with. “Doing form of unapologetic pop and vocal and that type of factor was very enjoyable for me as a result of it’s such a clear style swing,” stated Samberg. “That’s all the time the place I really feel like we get very blissful, with a really silly or odd concept set towards a really clear algorithm.”

    Samberg’s tenure at “SNL” resulted in 2012, simply earlier than he would start one other common TV gig with “Brooklyn 9-9.” He hosted in 2014 and made sporadic cameos, however taking part in Emhoff was his first return to the present since 2018.

    “I by no means actually have trepidation about going again,” he stated. “I like going again. I’ve beloved this present my entire life. I grew up watching it. I like being on it. It’s a tough job, however it was my dream to be on it, after which I obtained to do it. So once I return, for me, it’s all the time enjoyable. You keep in mind how intense the present is and the way breakneck pace it’s taking place, however it doesn’t make me not need to return. I like doing it.”

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    “SNL” is understood for following a sure construction and technique ever since its inception, however it’s secure to look again and divide the present into its pre- and post-Lonely Island library. There’s now a whole manufacturing division devoted to pre-taped segments — and extra pre-taped segments total (“Once I went again, folks did half-jokingly be like, ‘That is your guys’ fault’”). Earlier than The Lonely Island left the present, they beneficial Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney’s sketch group Good Neighbor, and Samberg is after all conscious of comparisons to the present writing crew of Please Don’t Destroy.

    “I believe it’s unimaginable,” he stated. “What an honor to really feel — even when it’s different folks saying it — such as you’ve affected the material of the present. ‘SNL’ has been considered one of my favourite issues in all of comedy and leisure my entire life, so to really feel like we had an impression there in any approach is thrilling.”

    Loads of Samberg’s fan interactions nonetheless heart on “SNL,” and he welcomes it. As a fan for the reason that mid-’80s (and just about proper up till he joined), he all the time needs to listen to what persons are loving on the present season, once they obtained into the present, and their relationship to it through the years.

    “I used to say ‘SNL’ is like America’s campfire each week. You form of re-litigate every little thing that’s occurring and discuss it and joke about it,” he stated. “It’s additionally been described as like a sports activities crew for the nation and for New York, the place everybody who follows it feels possession, in a approach. That’s how I used to be as a fan, too, and that’s a part of the enjoyable of it.”



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