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What we think Andy Samberg should do for Extreme Activities Competition 2
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• 4 hours ago
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) On the first episode of this 08-09 season, Andy Samberg did the Space Olympics song. We liked it, but we said that Andy should just do a series of fake Olympic events instead. We got our wish this year with the hilarious digital short, Extreme Activities Competition.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Original at Bitten and Bound
• Fri, Oct 10
By Missy American Idol reject heads to ‘Celebrity Rehab’ - Celebridiot Funny! Andy Samberg impersonation video of Mark Wahlberg - Celebrity Smack Oh-So-Hot Marissa Miller teams up with Harley Davidson - Daily Stab Benefit concert planned for plane crash survivor Adam Goldstein - Hollywood C...
The Killers' Day & Age Album Art
Original at Stereogum
• Thu, Oct 9
The Killers performed "Human" and "Spaceman" on SNL this past weekend. It turns out they also performed some songs off-the-air, which is documented in this clip, wherein Fred Armisen explains the situation and we spot a very gracious Brandon Flowers along with Andy Samberg, Amy Poehler...
Andy Samberg - Watches the Killers (SNL Backstage)Original at Andy Samberg
• Thu, Oct 9
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Check it out. Andy Samberg and the cast and crew watch The Killers in a club-like atmosphere. (After the show, the Killers were invited to play an encore.) Enjoy!
Andy Samberg - In Water and Power
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• Wed, Oct 8
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Channel 101 co-founder Dan Harmon and longtime 101 vet Ryan Ridley are at their best in their calamity-ridden, emotional powerhouse of a web series Water and Power. The two play mid-level employees in a strait-laced branch of local government in charge of the city’s utilities.
Entourage Renewed for Sixth Season
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• Wed, Oct 8
SC - The Mark Wahlberg-produced hit (as Andy Samberg reminded us on Saturday Night Live), has been renewed for a sixth season, the network announced. ...
Andy Samberg - Is Mark Wahlberg (Talking to Animals)
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• Mon, Oct 6
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) This is classic Andy! He takes a decent impression and simplifies it down to something as silly as talking to animals! There is no good reason why this should be funny, but Andy's performance, the fact that this skit is what it is, and the reaction shots of the animals make this incredibly si...
Saturday Night Live - Weekend Update Thursdays
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• Mon, Oct 6
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/exclusives/Weekend_Update/ It airs on NBC on Thursday nights. For example... So, hopefully this will open up anothr opportunity for us to see Andy Samberg and Bobby Moynihan. We'll have to wait and see.
Andy Samberg - Is a Human ATM, and he Can't keep a chair down (Digital Short: Extreme Activities Competition)Original at Andy Samberg
• Sun, Oct 5
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) SNL Digital Short: Extreme Activities Competition SNL should totally do sequels of this, because they could thik of hundreds of these things that would be hilarious. Andy turning around a corner at the beginning. Andy turns into Anne Hathaway. Andy and Kristen "Do this."
Andy Samberg - Juror #5 in OJ Simpson Trial (Transcipt)
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• Fri, Oct 3
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Judge Jackie Glass.....Casey Wilson O.J. Simpson.....Kenan Thompson Gabriel Grasso.....Bill Hader Juror #1.....Will Forte Juror #2.....James Franco Juror #3.....Fred Armisen Juror #4.....Kristen Wiig Professor Davenport.....Bobby Moynihan Juror #5.....Andy Samberg Juror #6.....Jason Sudeikis
Andy Samberg in The New York Times - Transcript
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• Wed, Oct 1
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Tandalaya.....Kristen Wiig Steven.....Bobby Moynihan James.....Kenan Thompson Queens Gillespie.....Darrell Hammond Ted Boucher.....Jason Sudeikis Ari Schenckman.....Andy Samberg Indian Guy.....?? Karl Marx.....Fred Armisen Eric Nyman.....Will Forte Howland Gwathmey Moss V.....Bill Hader
Does Andy Samberg take Pheromones?
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• Tue, Sep 30
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) So Andy Samberg bagged a pretty elf, Joanna Newsom: He dated Kirsten Dunst: Is Andy Samberg taking pheromones???? Even if Andy doesn't take them, I think some of us guys are going to have to start taking them in order to compete with the likes of Andy Samberg. =^)
Andy Samberg In The Looker - The Transcript
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• Tue, Sep 30
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) The Looker/Penny Marshall....Fred Armisen The Closer/Kyra Sedgwick....Kristen Wiig Juliette Lewis....Andy Samberg Suspect 1....Will Forte Suspect 2....James Franco Suspect 3....Jason Sudeikis Kyra poses] Caption: The Closer. Caption: The Looker
Saturday Night Live: 9/27/08 - Anna Farris & DuffyOriginal at Andy Samberg
• Sun, Sep 28
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Saturday Night Live: 9/27/08 - Anna Farris & Duffy Deep House Dish Summary: Josh (Bill Hader) is proud to show off his new girlfriend, Sarah (Anna Faris), to his friends (Jason Sudeikis, Casey Wilson), except that she won't stop talking glowingly about her ex-boyfriend.
More Laser Cats this season
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• Sat, Sep 27
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) This season, SNL devotees can expect to see the return of Laser Cats, an online favourite with SNL cyberdudes and dudettes. I think everyone hopes so," Laser Cats' Andy Samberg said in an interview earlier this summer when asked about his creation's possible return.
Andy Samberg - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball
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• Thu, Sep 25
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Sony Pictures Animation has announced the voice cast for its next CG-animated feature film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The adaptation of the well-known children’s book will feature the voices of Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live), Anna Faris (The House Bunny), James Caan (The God...
Opinion: Andy Samberg - In Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
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• Thu, Sep 25
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) With co-stars including fellow Canuck Jay Baruchel, cameos from "Saturday Night Live" stars Seth Meyers and Andy Samberg and a soundtrack packed with indie acts, the film is sure to please many teens and fans of sweet and smart romantic comedies.
Saturday Night Live: 9/20/08 (James Franco & King of Leon)Original at Andy Samberg
• Sun, Sep 21
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Andy Andy Andy!!! Andy! Andy! Andy! Andy! Overall, Andy Samberg was in the OJ Jury Selection, The Looker, and James & Willem DeFoe (no video). It's interesting in the last skit that Bill Hader played Willem asking James Franco to kill Andy Samberg for the portrayal Andy did of Willem.
New SNL Player - Bobby Moynihan - Is he annoying?Original at Andy Samberg
• Tue, Sep 16
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Moynihan is now the fifth SNL castmember to be born after the show's premiere in 1975. The other castmembers who hold this distinction are Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg (all born in 1978), and Casey Wilson (born in 1980). Bobby joins Andy Samberg and others as a guy younger than SN...
Andy Samberg's Doppleganger - Transcript
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• Sun, Sep 14
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) An SNL Digital Short: Doppleganger Written by: Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Andy Samberg Seth Meyers Andy Samberg Will Forte Street Bum.....Horatio Sanz Will Forte: Same one. Oh, my God, that is YOU, Andy. THAT guy? THAT guy. Seth Meyers: Andy does love sandwiches.
Brian doesn't think Andy Samberg is funny (and he doesn't like Will Ferrell's stuff)
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• Fri, Sep 5
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) That certainly doesn't stop people from trying, of course. Ferrell's movies may have a Midas touch at the box office, but in his wake, he leaves a slew of imitators clambering for the limelight. "Saturday Night Live" has devolved into a series of pop-culture references interspersed with t...
Space Chimps Review: ABSOLUTELY NO APE-PEAL
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• Tue, Aug 19
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Samberg, who is establishing a track record of delivering about one laugh per year, is a circus chimp who gets blasted out of cannons and into the night sky. "Space Chimps" is touching for about 48 frames, when his character, Ham, reaches wistfully out for the moon. He was made for better thin...
Andy Samberg - Dies in a board meeting with his twin (Business Meeting)Original at Andy Samberg
• Thu, Aug 14
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) This is hilarious! Here is an SNL Digital Short shown this week on Saturday Night Live. Andy Samberg appears along with many other people. Bill Hader pulls out some laughs, along with the rest of the cast. This really feels like a great Monty Python sketch. Prepare for pure randomness!
Akiva says Andy Samberg is an A-Hole (Hot Rod - red carpet)Original at Andy Samberg
• Sun, Aug 10
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) For his entire life, Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) believes his father, now deceased, was a successful and respectable stuntman working for Evel Knievel. He aspires to follow his father's footsteps and become a famous stuntman himself. Meanwhile, his stepfather Frank (Ian McShane) fails t...
Dear Sister and Its Spoofs
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• Wed, Aug 6
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Of the many popular digital shorts the Lonely Island trio has created since joining SNL (Lazy Sunday, Dick in a Box, Natalie Portman Raps, etc.), the most aggressively memed vid has been Dear Sister. A mock murder gunplay spoof of The OC’s second season finale, co-starring SNL guest host Sh...
Space Chimps - Pop Matters Review
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• Mon, Aug 4
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Lacking forward motion, Space Chimps turns itself in circles. Chimp scenes cut to Zartog scenes, which cut to scenes on earth, where the scientists twiddle their thumbs while hoping their very expensive machines will somehow reinitiate communications. This leads them to another non-s...
Andy Samberg - His jogger skits are valuable to SNL because they're so short
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• Thu, Jul 10
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Samberg and Lonely Island cohorts Jorma Taccone and Akiva Shaffer shot a movie called Hot Rod this summer (Akiva directed) with Parnell, Ilsa Fisher, Ian McShane, Bill Hader, and Sissy Spacek; Hader and Kristen Wiig also shot Judd Apatow's Knocked Up. Rumor has it that Wiig is hilarious a...
Lorne Michaels struck gold with Andy Samberg
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• Sun, Jun 29
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) NOTE: This article doesn't give credit to SNL's best efforts to integrate Andy Samberg into the show, like adding him to Kenaan's Deep Dish House, his MySpace skit, his Blizzard Man character, his Quatto character (the mutant from Total Recall), his Jack Johnson and Mellow Show impress...
Paul Rudd thinks Andy Samberg is a media whore
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• Tue, Jun 17
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Rudd: No, they're in the movie and we didn't have any scenes where I engaged with them, I was just a fan dancing in the show, but I got to meet them, and Jason and I actually interviewed them and I was nervous and like, "How do you interview Rush?" They seem also to be really a band that has shied aw...
Opinion: Andy Samberg - Used to play Tecmo Bowl & Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!!
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• Fri, Jun 6
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) With a name like the Lonely Island, you’d think these guys would keep to themselves. But Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer are keeping the company of millions. Since 2001, they have cultivated a massive following online by posting hilarious self-produced TV spoofs, wacky r...
Andy Samberg - Made his stache from show dogs (TRL interview)
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• Thu, May 29
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) MTV: You're also a part of The Lonely Island comedy team, who you created the SNL digital shorts and your new film Hot Rod with. Yeah, Akiva Schaffer directed Hot Rod and Jorma Taccone was in it and all three of us worked together on it all the way through. MTV: Tell us a little more about Hot Rod.
Saturday Night Live: 5/10/08 - Shia LeBeoufOriginal at Andy Samberg
• Thu, May 15
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) Shia LaBeouf Monologue This joke reminds me of the enormously popular David Blaine Street Magic series on YouTube. It's a parody sketch of David Blaine done in the style of a digital short: Vinny Talks: Shia LaBeouf SNL Digital Short: The Best Look in the World
Ian McShane - Talks about fighting Andy Samberg
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• Fri, May 9
By noreply@blogger.com (The Animation Empire) So, he moved from playing a cutthroat frontier saloon impresario to the role of abusive modern-day stepfather, which doesn't sound like a lighter turn at all, until it's known that his latest film is "Hot Rod,” an outrageous comedy about an Evel Knievel wannabe from executive producer L...
Opinion: Andy Samberg - Did he add to homosexual stereotypes in commercials?Original at Andy Samberg
• Thu, Feb 14
By The Animation Empire Justin Timberlake returns to the Super Bowl for the first time since he co-starred in the Janet Jackson 2004 halftime-performance “wardrobe malfunction”—this time for Pepsi ( from BBDO ) , where he is forcefully pulled by unseen forces ( actually, a girl drinking through a straw ) acros...
Joanna Newsom: Best rapper alive?
Original at Entertainment Weekly
• Fri, Feb 1
By Simon Vozick-Levinson One row ahead of me in the hipster-heavy crowd, Saturday Night Live clowns Andy Samberg, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer whispered and giggled to one another. The formally attired players of the Brooklyn ...
Andy Samberg - Thinks there were too many crashesOriginal at Andy Samberg
• Thu, Jan 24
By The Animation Empire In [July's] issue of New York, Adam Sternbergh profiles Andy Samberg, viral video genius turned SNL cast member turned — maybe! — movie star. In part of the conversation that didn't make it into the magazine, Samberg discussed his annoyance with Hot Rod's initial trailer and is set straig...
Opinion: Andy Samberg - Warns you about whistling
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• Sun, Jan 20
By The Animation Empire In addition to their awesome 'fros, our esteemed jurors had something else in common this year: Both took cautious steps away from the outfits that made them famous. Andy Samberg -- fresh off his unlikely Emmy win for "* in a Box" -- tried to ride Hot Rod toward leading-man status, even as his...
Andy Samberg - All His Lonely Island Videos
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• Tue, Jan 15
By The Animation Empire We over at AndySamberg.BlogSpot.com would like to treat you to a tour of every Andy Samberg video he did with The Lonely Island. These don't include their Hot Rod promos or their SNL work. Tours Saturday Night Live (2005):
Tom Hanks & Andy Samberg - Testicles Song (Ariel & Efrim)Original at Andy Samberg
• Fri, Jan 4
By The Animation Empire Tom Hanks joins The Lonely Island dudes Andy Samberg, Jorm, and Akiva (directing). They are also joined by almost the entire cast of Saturday Night Live. Lorne has come to realize that The Lonely Island is pure gold, and they should use their entire cast to play extras and background for thei...
Andy Samberg - Reveals how Iran So Far came together
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• Fri, Dec 28
By The Animation Empire However popular, such films — including “Lazy Sunday,” a rapping homage to “The Chronicles of Narnia” — have not appeared to raise the ratings of the show itself. Last season, “Saturday Night Live” drew an average of about 6.4 million viewers a week, which was down from the year before. But th...
Andy Samberg - Is allowed to steal things
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• Mon, Dec 17
By The Animation Empire “The writers’ strike has had no visible effect on my Hanukkah,” said comedian Andy Samberg at Brasserie 8 1/2 on Monday, Dec. 10, during a party before the premiere of There Will Be Blood. He and Saturday Night Live colleagues Bill Hader, Rachel Dratch and Amy Poehler were all there in suppor...
Andy Samberg - Kisses Joanna Newsom
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• Tue, Dec 4
By The Animation Empire Though much of his schtick screams "dork alert" (it should be noted that he is a major abbreviator -- competition becomes "competish," appropriate: "approps") there is something very un-awk-weird about Samberg. And while he's ever humble -- when he found out we wanted him to actually lo...
Andy Samberg - Punches the Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl)Original at Andy Samberg
• Tue, Dec 4
By The Animation Empire If you haven't seen Andy Punching, then check it out here: http://andysamberg.blogspot.com/2007/10/andy-samberg-punches-people-before-they.html Clip from SNL...parody with Andy Samberg October 2007" Here are just the clips of Andy punching the Foo Fighters, for all you fans of Foo:
Andy Samberg - Punch dances and falls off a cliff (Hot Rod)Original at Andy Samberg
• Thu, Nov 8
By The Animation Empire Wow. This is hilarious. This scene from Hot Rod shows Andy dancing the moves of Kevin Bacon, and then something hilarious happens. In this video, check out 1:59, and make sure you aren't drinking anything at that second. This one has a little more movie at the beginning and end of it: Enjoy!
Andy Samberg - Is called Gay by Brian Williams (short clip)Original at Andy Samberg
• Wed, Nov 7
By The Animation Empire In a CelebTV video covering Brian Williams hosting, we can see a clip from the skit where Brian calls Andy Samberg gay. The video was made on November 5 about the November 3, 2007 episode of SNL. Brian Williams shows his funny side away from the NBC Nightly News anchor desk" Enjoy! Update:
Fred Armisen talks about Andy Samberg (Iran So Far)
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• Sat, Nov 3
By The Animation Empire For the High School Musical dance parts, Danielle (our choreographer) was standing right in front of us behind the camera and did the moves as we followed along. Having those other professional dancers with us makes it look like we know what we're doing...
Andy Samberg - Punches people before they eat
Original at Andy Samberg Daily
• Mon, Oct 15
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Andy Samberg punches people before they eat in the new SNL Digital Short from 10/13/07. http://andysamberg.blogspot.com/2007/10/andy-samberg-punches-people-before-they.html Also included is Extra Fruity. Enjoy!
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SNL Digital Short: People Getting Punched Just Before Eating
Original at MilkandCookies.com: Headlines
• Sun, Oct 14
• 3 related articles
Andy Samberg punches people just before they are about to eat. From Saturday Night Live.
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Andy Samberg - Is the Swedish Chef with Rowlf (Seth Rogen)Original at Andy Samberg
• Sat, Oct 13
By The Animation Empire Now, Andy Samberg is back as the Swedish Chef in his third season. This time Seth Rogen is Rowlf and Maya Rudolph (Janice), Jason Sudeikis, and Bill Hader (Animal) are his backup band. Animal gets a fake solo. From 10/06/07 on Saturday Night Live.
SNL: Kevin Federline Parenting Tips
Original at MilkandCookies.com: Headlines
• Sun, Oct 7
An address by Kevin Federline (Andy Samberg) sharing parenting tips.