Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

We've got a good one for you this week again.

Andy Sandberg, such a good time sitting down with him.

We got together, of course, the Saturday Night Live along.

You don't need me to tell you that.

He was fresh off his hosting of the Golden Globe Awards.

And now the return to NBC, we're proud to say, of his comedy, Brooklyn Nine-N-N-N-N. Remember, it was canceled off Fox after five seasons. He's like,

all right, my show's over. What's my next move? There's this grassroots groundswell of support for the show.

People get online, including celebrities like Mark Hamill,

who was Luke Skywalker, of course, Lynn Manuel Miranda, the creator and the star of Hamilton,

and a bunch of other celebrities got online and said, you cannot do this. We need our Brooklyn 9-9.

The show was saved within the space of about 30 hours, I think he said. It was back on TV picked up by NBC, now airing in its sixth season there.

Interesting, too, the backstory on Andy of how he got to SNL.

He was a writer at the MTV Movie Awards for Jimmy Fallon in 2005.

Jimmy Fallon goes back to Lauren Michaels, the creator of SNL and says,

these guys are hilarious. Samberg and his two buddies, the Lonely Island guys, as they're

known, and they get hired and basically revolutionize the show. They make these digital shorts.

You remember, Lazy Sunday was the first big viral success, and then all the hits that came after,

including that little number with Justin Timberlake,

a holiday jingle, if you will. Let's call it gift in a box. You know what I'm talking about.

That changed SNL, brought it into the digital age and also came right at the time when YouTube

was launching in 2005. So there was this kind of synergy between these moments and Andy

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