Andy Samberg

Meet Music's Next Superstar: Shia LaBeouf

Last week, actor and LSD-enthusiast Shia LaBeouf and synth-pop duo Future Unlimited debuted the gloomy video for "Haunted Love" directed by none other than everyone's favorite Michael Bay leading man. LaBeouf has had many an odd foray into music video. From a thirty-minute musical of interpretive da ... More >>

Is Andy Samberg Trying to Be Hipster Cop in This New Fox Show? (Update)

Remember your meme? It was fall of 2011, when computer screens were bright with speculation about a well-dressed cop with Lower Manhattan's First Precinct who kept showing to Occupy-related events. The image of the "hipster cop," or real-life Detective Rick Lee, became loved, then sort of hated, the ... More >>

Marnie Stern Gets Personal

It's when Marnie Stern, bundled in a gold puffer jacket, steps away from the Starbucks counter that I see she's covered from waist down in day-glo, neon lemon shoes sticking out from electric cerulean pants declaring her the brightest person on the Upper East Side before she's even opened her mouth. ... More >>

Tegan and Sara Teach Andy Samberg How To Be A "Heartthrob"

Tegan and Sara's Heartthrob is out today, and on the drum up to the release they've been doing very fun interviews on YouTube with their heartthrob friends (Cory Monteith, Skylar Astin) about how they became so very heartthrob-y. The latest installment features Andy Samberg, and a bit of a twist. In ... More >>

SNL Sound-off: Kendrick Lamar's "Poetic Justice" and a Lonely Island Cameo

In the first two weeks of its new season, Saturday Night Live has given us a pair of polar opposites for musical guests: The Lumineers and Kendrick Lamar. The dichotomy goes beyond differences in genre and has more to do with the fact that one band showed up to work on a Saturday night and one didn' ... More >>

In Hotel Transylvania, A Comic Dracula Still Kills

Everybody knows I'm a movie-favorite monster

Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rom-Competent

Too Scattered to transcend its genre

Rashida Jones Steps Out On Her Own

The late bloomer

HAPPILY (UN)MARRIED

Rashida Jones makes 
us miss our ex

That's My Boy

Andy Samberg is Newest SNL Cast-Member to Leave

First, Kristen Wiig. Now... Andy Samberg?According to the New York Times, after seven full seasons and almost a hundred Digital Shorts of his own creation, Andy Samberg has confirmed that he will no longer appear on Saturday Night Live, leaving behind him a legacy that is comparable to som ... More >>

Did Anyone Else Cry During Kristen Wiig's SNL Farewell Last Night?

Rumors have been circulating for some time that Kristen Wiig was considering her seventh year as an Saturday Night Live castmember to be her last. And, in the last sketch of the season finale on Saturday night, she confirmed those rumors with one of the best (and emotional) send-offs in the show's h ... More >>

Drake Brings Sweaters, Varsity Jackets, And Nicki Minaj To Saturday Night Live

​This past Saturday, Drake was the featured musical guest on Saturday Night Live, and he not only got a chance to perform a couple of tracks off Take Care (Cash Money), out November 15, he also showed off the acting chops he developed while toiling away in the Canadian TV salt mines. Clips gal ... More >>

The Lonely Island Better Not Lose Its Emmy Race To A Song From Freaking Family Guy

Four songs from this past season of Saturday Night Live—three by the Andy Samberg-led pop-comedy troupe the Lonely Island, and Justin Timberlake's protestation that he's so over being a pop star—have been nominated for Emmys in the Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics category. (That's ... More >>

Radio Hits One: The Elusive Superstar Duet (Or Three-Way)

​ In last week's breakdown of Lil Wayne's chart ubiquity, I noted that while Lady Gaga's Born This Way and its singles seemed to be everywhere, she hasn't staked out much additional Billboard territory with collaborations. Her only charting collab of late is "3-Way (The Golden Rule)," a little ... More >>

Rökk Vodka: It's Real and Andy Samberg Wants You to Drink It

Rökk's new spokesmen.​The Post asks, rather earnestly, "Are there any real hip-hop stars left without a vodka brand?" Perhaps, if vodka brands are now being doled out to fake hip-hop stars. Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg and his Lonely Island crew have signed on as "creative directors" fo ... More >>

New York Serial Killer Spawns Music Video: Brent City Mafia's "Ocean Parkway"

​It's not that current events shouldn't be fodder for art, even when the news is at its most horrifying, like the potential serial killer murdering women on Long Island. But Brent City Mafia, a Long Island rap crew with 8 subscribers on YouTube as of this evening and no website we could find, ... More >>

Joanna Newsom Is Playing Carnegie Hall

​Q: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A: Release a bewildering triple-CD and date Andy Samberg. It's frankly shocking it took so long, but everyone's favorite mega-baroque harpist hits the big time November 23. Two days before thanksgiving, just FYI. Tickets on sale Monday, link TBA. If her pas ... More >>

Paging Hipster Runoff: Andy Samberg Attends Pearl Jam Show

​A tipster pal sends along a photo of Saturday Night Live castmates Andy Samberg and Will Forte hanging out in the will-call line at last night's Pearl Jam concert at MSG. Note the era-appropriate flannel! Our pal Hipster Runoff might have something to say about the man who dates indie rock go ... More >>

Week in Review: We Are A Viking Raiding Party of Good Will and Intention

These Are Powers, Secret Project Robot, Confetti. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week that everybody finally went outside for the summer, we hung out on a few rooftops ourselves. Twin Sister? Rooftop. The SFNY party? Rooftop. Good Co.? BBQ, outdoors, ground floor. So yeah. The rain drove us in ... More >>

Take Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, and Das Racist's Joke Rap Seriously

A new generation of MCs grapple with how funny they're allowed to be

Das Racist: Thanks, Internet!

Brooklyn's finest have a few thoughts on their online celebrity

WHAT'S SO FUNNY?

New York Comedy Festival has the answer

Lance Armstrong Mildly Zinged by Andy Samberg in I Love You, Man DVD

​Professional cycling goes on even after the Tour de France, but you'd never know if if all you did was follow Lance Armstrong. Even before his comeback, he rarely took part in late-season events after the Tour was finished. So there's little news to report about what Armstrong is up to these days ... More >>

There Is No Shame in Wanting to Read Devendra Banhart's Naked Lady Story from the Found Book

Davy Rothbart's third and latest Found book--Requiem For A Paper Bag: Celebrities & Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Tossed & Found Items From Around the World--stars a fantastically intricate cover by former Voice illustrator M. Wartella (left), and the happenstance discovery stories of fo ... More >>

Interview: Found Magazine's Davy Rothbart

"Jim Carroll goes to a colonic spa in San Francisco with a friend of his, and his friend shits out this plastic green army soldier... his friend, after the soldier was out of his system, he got a lot mellower." Davy's Sears-style portrait Eight years into a project that began when he discovered a ... More >>

FINDERS KEEPERS

FOUND magazine makes trash cool

Video: The Murray Hill Song

It's a little long but we appreciate the pick-up on that specific, privileged-but-not-entirely -denatured Murray Hill Jewish yunnie dork thing. Think of it as "Seinfeld: The Next Generation." Hopefully it will begin the much-needed process of rotting Andy Samberg's credibility from within.

Andy Samberg Swallows Sadness with Seth Rogen

Speaking of SNL, and Seth Rogen's cameo thereon, this also happened: a video for Lonely Island's "I'm A Boss," remixed as a performance review conducted between Rogen and Andy Samberg. Is it funny to parody a four-year-old Slim Thug song? We are not so sure. But we're always down to see literal de ... More >>

Shocking Secret About Gay Porn Star!

Agnès Varda, speeding at 80; Cowardly behavior

I Love You Man Reaches Bromantic Comedy's Greatest Heights

Kirk De Micco's Space Chimps

Hot Rod

That '70s Show

'Saturday Night Live' in the post-Tina Fey, YouTube unknown

SNL Natalie Portman Rap Skit: Shittier Than Actual Rap?

Urban Resolutions

New Yorkers revisit last year's promises and share hopes for 2006