![]() Those videos got them a gig writing jokes for Jimmy Fallon’s MTV Movie Awards hosting gig in 2005, and on Fallon’s recommendation, the group scored SNL auditions. The group honed its craft to a laser-sharp, transcendently dumb point, calling themselves The Lonely Island and posting videos online. “It just happened to be something that we started doing as a joke, just for ourselves, that people really enjoyed.” Their relationship to the form is complicated: “There's strangely no one who dislikes comedy rap more than us,” he says now. after college, they recognized that, since none of them could sing, rapping could be “a wonderful delivery system for jokes,” Samberg explains. ![]() All three had grown up on a diet of golden-age hip hop, getting into rap and reggae while attending Berkeley High. But the bits that really worked-on his way to SNL, as well as during his time there-were the videos, many of them song-based, he made with his junior high best buds Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. He transferred from UC Santa Cruz to NYU’s film program, did standup for a while after college, and suffered through what he describes as a miserable audition for a sketch-comedy theater, since it seemed like that was another viable path to Studio 8H. Pretty much the only job he ever wanted was SNL, basically organized his life around getting there. Andy Samberg, to his occasional chagrin, has the comedy rap song. “She watches her mom and emulates that sometimes, and it's the cutest fucking thing I've ever seen.”ĭon Rickles had the insult. He’s confident Baby Samberg will get around to making dick jokes sooner than later, but for now she’s taking after mom. (Samberg’s repertoire reaches its outer limit with the two-note melody- duh-duhduhduh-duhduhduh-duhduhduh-duh-from Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.”) There are three harps, also mostly used by Newsom: two for mom, one toddler-sized, a gift from Newsom’s preferred harpmaker. And Samberg makes no secret of the fact that he’s plenty happy for this to be the recurring day he’s stuck in, and for the people he’s reliving it with to be his wife, the harpist and songwriter Joanna Newsom, and their young daughter. So I guess putting something out is okay.” What he’s putting out has that newly relevant pandemic layer, its echo of our endlessly repeating days. “I'm going through all the same stuff,” he’d realized, “and at night I want to watch stuff. ![]() “You know, the world was kind of fucked up before, and it's still fucked up, and we were doing press before, and making movies,” he says. But Samberg had Palm Springs to promote, as both star and producer, and had brought himself around on the idea. Brooklyn Nine-Nine, his sitcom about an affable band of detectives, had been pulled into the national debate around policing sparked by Floyd’s death, as audiences and networks alike began to rethink the merits of shows about benevolent cops. “It's weird to be doing press again at all,” he says, “thinking about saying anything about the world other than COVID or the protests and everything, and George Floyd.” This wasn’t an idle gripe. Along the way, they consider the horror-or is it joy?-of eternal cohabitation.įor better or worse, the circumstances of quarantine have led couples everywhere to confront a similar question: what happens to a relationship when every day is the same? Samberg, joyfully boyish at 41 in ballcap and Studio Ghibli tee, opens the first of our two Zoom calls with an admission. Together, and with more than a few Lonely Island-style hijinks, they try to escape their time-loop. One of the big questions posed by Palm Springs, Andy Samberg’s new wedding-goes- Groundhog Day romantic comedy, is also a timely thought experiment: If you had to spend the rest of eternity stuck in a single day with a single other person, would that be hell? Or, if you were lucky enough to be stuck there with the right person, might desert-oasis purgatory in fact be a kind of heaven? The film picks up after Samberg’s Nyles has re-lived the same hipstery Palm Springs wedding a million times, and right before he drags Cristin Milioti’s sister of the bride into his infinitely recurring marital nightmare. ![]()
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