Andy Samberg just dropped some comedic gold about why he bid adieu to “Saturday Night Live” after seven wild seasons. Spoiler alert: it involves a lot of sleep deprivation and some seriously wacky shower thoughts.
Our favorite goofball wrapped up his time on SNL after the 2011-2012 season, leaving fans scratching their heads and wondering, “Why, Andy, why?!”
In a tell-all chat with Kevin Hart on his Peacock show, “Hart to Heart,” Andy got real (and funny, of course). “Leaving was tough. Like, breaking up with a pizza tough,” he confessed. “I didn’t want to leave, but my body was staging a full-on rebellion.”
Picture this: Andy, looking like a zombie, clutching a coffee cup like it’s the Holy Grail. “Physically, I was a wreck,” he admitted. “I hadn’t slept in seven years. Seven! We were pulling all-nighters like college students cramming for finals, except it was every week.”
He painted a picture of the SNL grind that sounded more like a survival reality show. “Tuesday night, we’re up all night writing. Wednesday, table read. Then they’re like, ‘Hey, how about a digital short?’ So Thursday, no sleep, write all day and night, shoot on Friday, and edit all night into Saturday. Basically, sleep was an urban legend.”
Andy shared, “I talked to [Amy Poehler] and other SNL veterans. I was like, ‘Once I leave, my shower ideas can’t just magically appear on TV in three days!’ The rush of seeing a goofy thought on national television that quickly? Absolutely intoxicating.”
In the end, the big wigs at SNL were like, “Stay, please!” And Andy, with the weight of sleep-deprived years on his shoulders, had to make the tough call. “I needed my sanity back. It was a hard choice, like choosing between Netflix and HBO on a Sunday night.”
Andy Samberg’s exit from SNL: a tale of sleep, sanity, and the sweet, sweet allure of mid-shampoo epiphanies.
