Simply days earlier than his follow-up audition, Samberg received a chunk of data that saved him from making a deadly error and ready him for the high-stakes writing of SNL. “The day earlier than [the callback], or two days earlier than it, I received tipped off, like, ‘Hey, do not do all the identical stuff,” the comic mentioned. “And I used to be like, oh s***, I’ve to put in writing a complete new audition in two days […] I do not know who instructed me to do the identical stuff, however that was dangerous recommendation.”
The dangerous tip may need come from a careless producer, however Samberg thinks that there may need been a hidden agenda behind the flawed intel. “At the back of my thoughts I really feel like possibly they try this to see should you can reply below strain,” he defined. “The present is written in a day or two.”
Samberg cannot fairly keep in mind who gave him the precise recommendation with just some days to spare — “possibly one of many producers we knew from The [MTV] Film Awards,” he provided — however they completely saved his audition. If the “Brooklyn 9-9” star’s concept is appropriate, although, then this producer wasn’t truly serving to Samberg out, however merely doing their job.