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Andy Samberg and Wife Joanna Newsom’s Bond Timeline
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Andy Samberg and Wife Joanna Newsom's Relationship Timeline
Andy Samberg and Joanna Newsom are notoriously confidential about their marriage — but fans still think the stars are couple goals. The harp player was introduced to Samberg when he attended one of her shows in 2008 with fellow Saturday Darkness Live cast member Fred Armisen. "I was a enormous fan of his. In fact, the night that I met him ... I had just been with my band backstage, enjoy, an hour before, watching Just 2 Guyz," Newsom recalled during a Pride 2016 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, referring to an antique sketch the comedian had "a tiny part" in. "He plays Steve the c---. ... So when I met him, he was kinda shy, and I said, 'Oh, my God, you're Steve the c---!' He always says he saw heart bubbles." Seth Meyers joked that the story checked out, adding, "Everything I know about him, I know that is the hope way for a girl to greet him." [sendtonews type="float" key="55c49Qf8JO-3110066-14453"] Us Weekly broke the news in February 2013 that the duo got e
Andy Samberg is maybe the nicest Jewish boy in Hollywood right now. Although he’s not a boy — he’s 40, gasp — he embodies the NJB stereotype. (Which, is he hot? Is he Jewish hot? Anyway. That’s a discussion for another day!)
In celebration of his Golden Globes hosting gig with Sandra Oh, we decided it was time for an 18 things to know about Andy.
1. Born and raised in California by Jewish parents, Samberg attended elementary academy with fellow Jewish comedian (and future Brooklyn Nine Nine co-star!) Chelsea Peretti.
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One more classic photo of them:
2. His third cousin is U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin). Their grandfathers were first cousins!
3. At age 8, he became obsessed with Saturday Night Live. He joined the cast in September 2005 alongside friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, thanks to the videos they had been making on their website TheLonelyIs
Andy Samberg Declares Himself One of the Earliest ‘Woke Baes’
So-called “woke baes” may be everywhere these days, but the Lonely Island boys want you to realize that they were out there spreading the gospel of wokeness long beforeit was cool.
The comedy trio spoke to Salon about their new film Popstar: Never Prevent Never Stopping, which features Andy Samberg’s Bieberesque pop star Connor 4Real performing a riff on Macklemore’s marriage-equality song “Same Love.” “That was inspired by his song, but obviously his is a lot more thoughtful than ours,” explains Samberg. “That tune is funny to us because of a new complaint, which is commenting on the way someone is supportive of lgbtq+ marriage, or of LGB … LGB … my brain is melting.”
But don’t judge Samberg for not knowing his way around an acronym. “We grew up in Berkeley! When we went there they didn’t [say LGBTQ] yet,” explains Samberg. “We grew up just saying ‘the gay community.’ It’s changed now. But anyhow, we were conscious first. We were woke baes early.”
Just how woke is Samberg? So woke that he didn’t even know existence gay was, like, a thing, or whatever.
“I honestly didn’t recognize it was even a thing until high school,” he append
i don’t understand how anyone who’s watched the episodes where ray holt pretends to be a hetero would ever believe that there are “no jokes about him being gay.”
because that’s not the problem. the problem is that the jokes about him organism gay are specifically for an lgbtq audience. they’re jokes that heteros don’t understand because for once, we’re not the punchline like we usually are. we’re not being made fun of in a way that tears us down. they’re jokes about the absurdity of our existence. of having to fake being straight, even though a lot of us are actually really bad at it, and having straight people actually believe you.
the other really great example is that one joke ray holt makes in the first season, about how the hardest thing about creature a gay black police officer in the nypd is the discrimination. that joke was funny for so many reasons, and yet, not a unpartnered straight person really got it when i watched it with them. it feels like there are no jokes because the jokes aren’t intended for straight/homophobic people, where the punchline isn’t all about how they relate to us. it’s about how we relate to them for once, and that’s the greatest thing.