Andy Samberg

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.

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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...

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!

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.

 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. ...

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...

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.

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."

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

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

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. =^)

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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):

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:

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!

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:

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 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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