As The Daily sat down to interview Andy Samberg Tuesday night before his show, Samberg said he first had to go to the restroom. "Don't worry, I don't really have to go, I'm just gonna do, like, cocaine," he joked. He also said a "Saturday Night Live" intern pointed out an earlier Daily article noting the show did not initially sell out at Northwestern, prompting fellow cast members to poke fun at him.
The Daily: What were you like in college, and how did your college experience affect your career?
AS: What was I like in college? I was pretty normal. I had an interesting college experience in that I transferred schools halfway through. I went to Santa Cruz for two years and then I transferred to NYU for the film school, Tisch, which was rad. Both of them are super awesome. I don't know, I'm not good at explaining what I was like. I mean, I was definitely not like a super diligent student. But just like in high school and everything before that … creative writing classes were the ones that I put all my effort into, so I guess they did inform my career because that's what I cared about and that's what I ended up doing.
The Daily: What did you hear about Northwestern before you came, and what made you want to come here?
AS: I hear that it's just the balls. Seth Meyers went here so he always talks fondly about it, and my friend Liz Cackowski, who does the Jeannie Tate show on YouTube … a soccer mom that does a talk show out of her minivan. She went here too, so I hear about Northwestern all the time, almost to the point of nausea. But clearly people really like it. So far, I'm enjoying it tremendously.
The Daily: What is being on SNL like? What's it like behind the scenes?
AS: It's amazing. It was my dream to be on SNL since I was like eight, so working there, I constantly feel like I'm going to wake up, 'cause I actually had like literal dreams of working there before I ever thought that I could audition or anything. But it also definitely can be stressful and it's a super intense schedule. I get colds a lot … a lot of smoothies being hoarded around there.
2008 Woodie Awards
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