Andy Samberg (born August 18,1978 in Berkeley, California), also known as Ardy, is a stand-up comic and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. He is also a featured player on Saturday Night Live. Samberg has also gained exposure on the Comedy Central series Premium Blend, performing a brief stand-up routine.

The Lonely Island

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The Lonely Island (which also includes Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) has a popular website where they make their sketches and music available for download. Samberg played the role of Aaron in The OC parody The 'Bu, the group's popular contribution to Channel 101. They also made a pilot for Fox called Awesometown and have written for various award shows, most notably the 2004 and 2005 MTV Movie Awards.

Saturday Night Live

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On September 13 2005, the Lonely Island website confirmed that Samberg would be joining Saturday Night Live as a featured player, while Schaffer and Taccone would join the show's writing staff.

While his live sketch roles have been limited in his first year, he has appeared in many non-live sketches, including commercial parodies and various other filmed segments, labelled as Digital Shorts. Samberg's first appearance was a commercial parodying Morgan Stanley. For the December 17 2005 show, he and Chris Parnell starred in a Digital Short called Lazy Sunday, from which Samberg and the show gained significant media and public attention.

Samberg has had more prominence in non-live segments over live segments overall, including appearing as a young Chuck Norris, a hardcore gangster rapper in Viking apparel alongside Natalie Portman, a parody commercial for lettuce in which he and Will Forte took large bites out of heads of lettuce during lulls in a serious conversation, and in a game of spotting doppelgängers which results in Samberg being suddenly and illogically shot by friends when he cannot be told apart from a large homeless man (portrayed by Horatio Sanz). Another prominent short featured Samberg and Tom Hanks parodying the macho image of early 90's male groups such as Right Said Fred; both appear bald and sing to their lovers about their paranoia of harm done to their testicles. A live segment Andy was in involved him teaching a community class about how to use Myspace to internet predators and a concerned mother.

Samberg has recently been attached to Spider-man 3 star Kirsten Dunst.

Trivia

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• Samberg is a Berkeley High School graduate, class of 1996.
• Had a cameo in the second season finale of Arrested Development "Righteous Brothers" as the stage manager for the Blue Man Group at the end of the episode.
• After writing for the 2004 and 2005 MTV Movie Awards, Samberg had a cameo in a sketch during the 2006 broadcast, where he played Ron Google, the fictitious founder of the popular search engine.

External links

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• The Lonely Island
• Andy-Samberg.com The Official Unofficial Fansite for Andy Samberg
• Short Movies with Andy Samberg at Channel 101, including The 'Bu

1978 births | American comedians | American stand-up comedians | Berkeleyans | Living people | Saturday Night Live cast members