Early Life
Andy Samberg, is a popular American comedian, comedy songwriter, producer of many films, and last but not least a writer. Born on 18 August 1978 in California.
From childhood, he was so much fascinated by Steve Martin and Adam Sandler’s sitcoms and it inspired him a lot in his career and after completing his elementary school level education.
Education in Film Degree
He went to New York University to start his career in film degree in the year 2000. At that time, it was experimental for him as he used to do comedy stuff just for fun.
Later he returned to Los Angeles after completing his graduation and he and his friends formed a comedy group named “The Lonely Island”.
” The Lonely Island” Troup”
The name is inspired by the apartment where they lived in their college days. The Lonely Island work was to produce comedy songs and publish them on the internet which brought them a lot of new opportunities in their career.
The first time they got recognition was when they were invited to the MTV movie awards. Along with ” The Lonely Island” Andy Samberg was also offered the role of production assistant in the sitcom “Spin City” which he accepted, in addition, he continued his part-time stand-up comedian role too.
Saturday Night Live
In the year 2005, he got the opportunity to be cast in Saturday Night Live and his friends did the production work. They work with Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012. In the same year along with this role he also got his 1st acting job in Arrested Development.
Host of MTV Movie and Music Album
In 2009, He hosted the MTV Movie award and launched their 1st sitcom music album named “Incredible”. This was the only comedy album to break the music records at that time. It was labeled as No. 1 on I tunes and also got 8th in hip-hop culture.
After that their 2nd album came in the year 2011. After graduating from high school in 1996, he attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for one year before dropping out to pursue a career in comedy. Samberg has been a cast member of Saturday Night Live since 2005.
He got worked in films like ” What’s your number” and “Friends with benefits”. Along with it also appeared in “Hot Rod,” “I Love You, Man,” “That’s My Boy,” and “Hotel Transylvania.” In addition to his work on film and television, Samberg is also the creator of the comedy troupe The Lonely Island.
With Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, Samberg is one-third of The Lonely Island, a comedy troupe who have written and starred in numerous digital shorts for Saturday Night Live.
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