Andy Samberg

Also known as Andrew David Samberg, David Andrew J. Samberg

American comedian and actor (born 1978)

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Andy Samberg, born David A. J. Samberg on August 18, 1978, is an American actor, writer, and playwright. He was born in Berkeley and has also been associated with Mill Valley, California. Samberg began his professional work in 2001. He is a member of the comedy group The Lonely Island and has appeared in productions such as SNL and The Sarah Silverman Program.

He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy. Samberg is married to Joanna Newsom, and the couple has two children. He speaks and writes in English, specifically American English.

Samberg attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. His official website is thelonelyisland.com.

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Acting · Mill Valley, California, USA

Andy Samberg (born David A. J. Samberg; August 18, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, musician, producer and writer. He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012, where he and his fellow group members are credited with popularizing the SNL Digital Shorts. Samberg has starred in several films, including Hot Rod…

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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse — Ben Reilly (voice)2027
Lorne — Self2026
The Roses — Barry2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self - SNL Cast Member 2005 - 20122025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self2025
Zootopia 2 — Pawbert Lynxley (voice)2025
The Naked Gun — Additional Voices (voice)2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Comedian and Actor2025
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self2025
Lee — David E. Scherman2024

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1978

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 3,175
Total plays: 27,779

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,753x
Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas
· 2005 · cited 16,639x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,835x
Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,535x
A view of cloud computing
· 2010 · cited 6,822x

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Quotes

“We were not aware of YouTube until "Lazy Sunday." We’d had our own website with streaming capabilities. After "Lazy Sunday," we were like, "Why are we paying for bandwidth and shit?"”
“You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.”

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Key facts

Born: David Andrew Jerome Samberg , ( 1978-08-18 ) August 18, 1978 (age 47) , Berkeley, California , U.S.
Education: New York University ( BFA )
Occupations: Actor comedian musician writer producer
Years active: 1999–present
Spouse: Joanna Newsom ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. September 21, 2013</span>"}]]}'>2013 )
Relatives: Alfred J. Marrow (adoptive grandfather), Tammy Baldwin (third cousin)
Medium: Television film music internet
Genres: Improvisational comedy anti-humor musical comedy physical comedy sketch comedy
Works: The Lonely Island discography
Member of: The Lonely Island
Website: thelonelyisland .com

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Andy
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Berkeley
Spouse: Joanna Newsom
Occupation: musician
Educated at: University of California, Santa Cruz
Languages spoken: American English
Native language: American English
Award: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy
Official website: www.thelonelyisland.com
Image: Andy Samberg by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Andy Samberg
date of birth: 1978-08-18
start of work period: 2001-00-00
writing language: American English
birth name: David A. J. Samberg

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Encyclopedic overview

David Andrew Jerome Samberg (born August 18, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, rapper, writer and producer. He is a member of the comedy music group the Lonely Island, along with childhood friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. Samberg was also a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012, where he and his fellow group members are credited with popularizing the SNL Digital Shorts.

Samberg's starring film roles include Hot Rod (2007), That's My Boy (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), and Palm Springs (2020). He has voiced roles in the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs film series (2009–2013), the Hotel Transylvania film series (2012–2022), Storks (2016), Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), and Zootopia 2 (2025). From 2013 to 2021, he portrayed Jake Peralta in the Fox/NBC police procedural sitcom series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which he also produced. For his work on the show, he was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2013.

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