Whereas Saturday Night time Stay’s precise 50th anniversary is October 11, the long-running selection sketch collection placed on fairly a present with the anniversary particular that earlier this 12 months amid the 2025 TV schedule. NBC pulled out all of the stops for the practically three-hour occasion that paid tribute to SNL’s previous and current. There have been additionally loads of stars readily available. From the skin trying in, he occasion appeared fairly cool, although Andy Samberg dropped an F-bomb whereas recalling how aggravating it was.
Andy Samberg and fellow members of The Lonely Island got here collectively for SNL50: The Anniversary Particular in February for a digital brief entitled “Anxiousness.” Not solely was the video an ideal illustration of engaged on the present, however it was additionally excellent for the particular. Samberg mirrored on the particular whereas showing on the podcast Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal and admitted how he really felt all through the night. For sure, months later, it appears like Samberg remains to be anxious over it:
It’s aggravating to be on the fiftieth. Make no mistake. Like, you find it irresistible, you’ll miss it, however you’re like, ‘It’s fuckin’ everybody who’s ever labored right here is all right here.’ And like, ‘Who’s gonna say hello to me? Who’s not gonna say hello to me? Who do I say hello to? Am I gonna be within the present? If I’m within the present an excessive amount of, do I like what I’m doing? Am I pissed about that? If I’m not within the present, are they ignoring me?’
Though the “Anxiousness” video was pre-recorded and never dwell, Samberg and co. nonetheless had lots of work to do on it. Plus, I can not even think about being in his footwear and watching varied stars react to the video in actual time on the anniversary occasion. The mere presence of so many stars additionally sounds downright daunting because the does the notion of not realizing whether or not an individual might be concerned in any extra of the present. All in all, simply eager about it’s giving me anxiousness. Nonetheless, as difficult as it could have been for Samberg, it appears the expertise was par for the course:
There’s no profitable once you return into that as a result of it’s such a vortex of, like, every part that’s ever occurred there. So I used to be form of hoping it could type of be within the spirit of that, additionally.
Andy Samberg was a Saturday Night time Stay forged member from 2005 to 2012, and he and The Lonely Island had been behind a number of the finest SNL Digital Shorts. With that, it was unsprising that Samberg and his cohorts/childhood mates, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, had been capable of ship such a intelligent brief for the anniversary.
As aggravating because the state of affairs might have been for Samberg, it appears like he did have some really memorable moments all through the evening. He beforehand spoke about getting to talk to Billy Crystal and Eddie Murphy amid the festivities. The gravity of the event was additionally not misplaced on Samberg, who took pleasure within the occasion’s “50 years within the making” tagline.
Now that the particular has come and gone, it’s unknown whether or not Andy Samberg will make one other look on SNL for the upcoming 51st season, however I feel he’s one in every of many stars who must host once more. Saturday Night time Stay is understood for pulling out surprises, so it’s actually not not possible that he’ll make a return, even regardless of the anxiousness and stress it includes. For now, followers can watch the anniversary particular and all 50 seasons with a Peacock subscription.