Saturday Night Live Season 50 visitor participant Andy Samberg mirrored on being again onstage in Studio 8H, saying the stay viewers expertise of filming the sketch comedy present may be as stress-inducing as it’s pleasant.
“It’s been enjoyable, I gotta say,” the Brooklyn 9-9 star stated on a current episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. “It’s been actually enjoyable going again. However once more, additionally inheriting — re-inheriting — the stress of it and being like, ‘Oh, proper, that is intense.’”
Samberg was on the seminal NBC sequence throughout seven seasons from 2005-2012, serving as a featured participant and author. A member of the comedy troupe The Lonely Island, which helped him land the coveted spot on the Lorne Michaels-created present, Samberg has beforehand joked about how he appeared in quite a few digital shorts throughout his tenure versus stay exhibits throughout his internet hosting stint in 2014.
Referred to as again to play Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris within the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, the Palm Springs star stated his reprisal has been barely extra chill.
“It’s slightly extra mellow — me and Maya [Rudolph] have been speaking about [how] it’s slightly bit extra mellow ’trigger we all know why we’re there particularly,” he stated. “However that final present, I used to be like, if this Beetlejuice factor doesn’t work, I’m simply going to be right here and never do something. And that places you proper again within the feeling of being a solid member — of, you’re all the time in danger.”
When Michael Keaton served as host two weeks prior alongside musical visitor Billie Eilish, Samberg was in a position to pull collectively a “dream come true” appearance in Beetlejuice cosplay with Mikey Day in the course of the opening monologue. “Right here’s the factor, I used to work right here, and through my storied tenure I attempted and failed many instances to get my BJ into the present,” Samberg stated in his finest demon rasp.
Earlier this yr, the Emmy winner revealed he left SNL to safeguard his psychological and bodily well being, which was being impacted by the present’s well-documented and intense filming and prep schedule. “For me, it was like I can’t truly endure it anymore. Bodily and emotionally. I used to be falling aside in my life,” he defined.
