Andy Samberg: Why I Left SNL | Opie & Anthony

[Music] by the way what made you want to leave I'm sure you've been asked that a million times is it like is it just exhausting or one what's that I didn't get it that's that's that's too busy talking to hear the joke guy sorry was funny got a lot of characters D what what uh what made you want to to to go uh it was kind of like you sign up and it's seven season contract and I finished seven seasons I did so many digital shorts which are you know when you do a short usually you're starting on Thursday so you've already had the crazy Monday Tuesday Wednesday so weeks for me were very very heavy um and the guys I did them with primarily The Lonely Island guys AKA and yorma have both moved on and they were nice enough to come back and help me out with some of the shorts this year but I kind of just felt like I don't know I could have I think I could have done another year and had a great time but for whatever reason just internally inside I felt like it was time I can't really explain it uh but most guys sign up for seven years they you sign a contract for seven years before you are allowed to audition for the show that if you get it you will seven years yeah you're there for seven but wow the truth is if you get on there and you hate it Lauren's not going to like sue you if you right gotta and if and if they don't like you they just fire you so it's not like a binding seven-year thing what was the audition process like did you want to go out for did they request to see you or oh I was dying to do it oh you want it was like my dream job since I was eight it's crazy so I got the call being like hey you know do you want audition for SNL and I was like yeah that's pretty good call yeah but I also had like no sketch experience other than stuff we had pre-taped and put on our website like we were always kind of like video guys um so I had to like kind of in a a week throw together an audition so I just I did a lot of standup and then like sort of patch together some weird characters and Impressions but it it was more about the jokes I made made in between the stuff I did I think than the other stuff that got me what Impressions did you do for the audition for Lauren I did Fallon um I did Jimmy Fallon at a funeral oh he's still pretty happy um and I still pretty so sad it's so sad that's great how's it going my man oh man which F I finally got to do it on the show when he hosted this year oh man that's great but yeah and it was it was also like he got me the audition so it was kind of like a yeah it was cool a wink wink or whatever but uh I did a onew Allen Rickman impression which was just uh mlan was whole and they're like yeah this guy's got the goods I'm trying to think what else did you do cage no I hadn't I didn't know I could do it yet I did Billy Bob thoron which was just a lot of talking about kangles kangles or kangles Kangle hats yeah kles like that a lot of onew Impressions like I tried to like get in and get out and be like I seem fun yeah yeah that was good yeah I wonder if you could do more words with those guys yeah you want to leave M more always yeah a second syllable he does the best because he sounds just like that guy saying because

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Length: 3min 28sec (208 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 08 2012