Family Trips: ANDY SAMBERG Had a Closet for a Room

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1. Copenhagen trip with Samberg and Jost

   6:23

   Seth describes a 2008 trip with Samberg and Colin Jost where they were served the Danish drink Fishmans, which Jost later sent Seth a bottle of.

   The two of us, Andy Samberg and Colin Jost. went to Copenhagen, Helsinki, Amsterdam, correct?

2. The town crier and radio nicknames

   13:33

   Josh was dubbed 'town crier' by their dad for running in to announce what he'd seen, and called 'radio' for reporting on things, a nickname later used for Cuba Gooding Jr.'s role in a film.

   My dad's nickname for Josh was the town crier because Josh used to also run into a room and announce a thing he'd just seen.

3. Garfield and Tintin reading

   17:31

   Samberg and Seth both read Garfield and Tintin comics at the Stinson Beach library and rental houses, and Samberg names Captain Haddock as his favorite character.

   Those Tintin books I also got into on these exact same trips.

4. Scrooge McDuck Update joke flop

   21:44

   Seth recalls Samberg playing Scrooge McDuck on Weekend Update, where a joke about diving into money got silence from the audience.

   It was radio silence. It was to call back. Oh, it didn't land.

5. Barfing on the windy road

   23:01

   Samberg recalls getting carsick every time his family's Volvo wagon crossed the hill to Stinson Beach, so his parents seated him in the backward-facing rear seat, nicknamed the barf seat.

   I would barf every time. Windy road there, and we had the Volvo station wagon way back seat that faces backwards.

6. Seal pops up during boogie-boarding

   24:36

   Samberg describes floating on a boogie board at sunset when a seal surfaced four feet away, a memory that makes him feel like a Bluey episode. Multiple people have since told him the seal is his spirit animal.

   a little seal pops its head up and stares right at you from like four feet away.

7. Samberg's seal spirit animal

   25:07

   Samberg says several people have suggested his spirit animal is the seal, and Seth jokes that the answer comes from Berkeley, which he sees as a hub of SEAL experts.

   I've been told by multiple people they think that's possibly my spirit animal, is the seal.

8. Berkeley spirit animal talk

   25:24

   Seth jokes that Berkeley is a place where people discuss spirit animals, and Samberg says he would have been roasted for that at his high school.

   my stereotype of Berkeley is that's mostly what people are talking about.

9. Samberg's comedic barf work

   26:42

   Samberg says barf-based jokes make up only about 5 percent of his comedy, though some barf bits on SNL were written by others. He says the cartoonish version is funny but real vomit bothers him.

   I would say like 5%, 4.5%. Oh, I would have thought higher.

10. Samberg's bunk bed fall

    29:30

    Samberg was sleeping on the top bunk of a bunk bed with no rails when he rolled off during the night and landed on the floor still asleep, a story his family still tells.

    apparently in the night rolled out and fell hard from high up off the bunk bed with my blanket

11. Samberg's 'own room' was a closet

    30:33

    When his sisters asked that he stop sharing their room, Samberg got his own room, which he later realized was a closet. He kept his hamster and Tintin books in there.

    And they gave me my own room. I'm making air quotes... And then I realized years later was a closet.

12. Mel the family dog

    32:18

    Andy's family dog Mel was the only dog the family ever had, and Andy says he felt tied to Mel despite not choosing the dog himself.

    I have a lot of issues around Mel because I loved Mel, but I was, again, the youngest.

13. Bill Murray spotted at a bar

    38:18

    Andy recalls walking to a bathroom in a New York bar as a preteen and seeing Bill Murray, his first famous sighting, while the family was Murray fans.

    that was 100% the first famous person I'd ever seen.

14. Dinky doodle short-shorts camp fail

    44:15

    At a week-long soccer camp Andy and a friend followed the uniform rules and showed up in short shorts that no other camper wore, and everyone laughed at them.

    we were literally the only two kids in the whole place wearing those damn short shorts.

15. Camper turned counselor in Yosemite

    45:47

    Andy attended a four-week sleepaway camp near Bass Lake in Yosemite as a camper for five years, then returned as junior staff and then a full counselor.

    One detail here is not in the transcript.

    I was a camper for five years starting it.

16. Counselors partying at 90s camp

    47:57

    Andy describes that counselors drank and partied at camp in the early nineties, a tail end of older summer camp culture before legal changes, with drinks like peppermint schnapps.

    So, like, the counselors were partying.

17. Finding Your Roots reveals Sicilian roots

    53:11

    Andy appeared on the PBS show Finding Your Roots, which revealed his adopted mother was half Sicilian, leading the family to visit her ancestral village in Sicily.

    I did that PBS show, Finding Your Roots.

18. Why Andy did the show

    55:24

    Andy says he agreed to Finding Your Roots only after asking his mom if she wanted to know, since he usually keeps personal life private.

    And she was like, I just really want to know. So I just did it.

19. Checking In With The Dean segment

    57:20

    Seth introduces a new segment called Checking In With The Dean, prompted by the roommate story of Roadhouse overwatching.

    I think let's check in, and now it's time for our new segment, Checking In With The Dean.

20. Roadhouse wall-sex scene

    57:33

    The group riffs on the 1989 film Roadhouse, noting a scene with a couple having sex against a wall, which they say introduced the idea to many viewers.

    Roadhouse introduced the concept to a lot of people of having sex up against a wall.

21. Lonely Island podcast plug

    1:02:26

    Seth plugs The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, which covers the Digital Shorts Andy, Akiva, and Jorma made on SNL.

    we talk about the digital shorts. Those are the things that Andy and Akiva and Jorma made when they were on SNL.