Andy Samberg put himself first when it came time to walk away from Saturday Night Live . “For me, it was, like, I can’t actually endure it anymore,” Samberg, 45, said during the Thursday, July 11, episode of Kevin Hart ’s “Heart to Hart” show on Peacock. “Physically and emotionally.
I was falling apart in my life.” He continued, “Physically, it was taking a heavy toll on me, and I got to a place where I hadn’t slept in seven years. .
.. It’s basically like four days a week you’re not sleeping, for seven years.
I just kind of fell apart physically.” Samberg was cast on SNL in 2005, often performing in musical sketches with fellow members of the Lonely Island — Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer — including viral performances of “I’m on a Boat” and “I Just Had Sex.” After seven years, Samberg opted to leave the sketch comedy show.
Samberg, who later hosted a 2014 episode of SNL , noted to Hart, 45, on Thursday that he didn’t initially “want” to leave the sketch series but needed to “get back to a feeling of mental and physical health.” “Everyone was like, ‘Oh, same,’” Samberg recalled. “No one was like, ‘What?’ Everyone was like, ‘Oh, yes, yes.
This is just what happens.’ Like, you hit a wall. We’re not built to operate that way.
” While Samberg has moved on from SNL, he is still grateful for the experience and for fostering lifelong friendships. Samberg, Taccone, 47, and Schaffer, 46, have known each other sin.
