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Andy Samberg Opens Up About ‘Difficult’ Decision to Leave ‘SNL’: ‘I Was Falling Apart in My Life’


Andy Samberg opened up about his "difficult" decision to depart 'Saturday Night Live' a dozen years ago in a new interview with Kevin Hart.

Andy Samberg opened up about his “difficult” decision to depart Saturday Night Live in 2012 in a new interview with Kevin Hart. During his appearance on Peacock’s Hart to Heart, the former SNL Digital Short maestro and “Dick in a Box” singer said of his exit after seven seasons, “It was a big choice. Samberg first considered leaving shortly after his Lonely Island cohorts Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone — who both served as writers on SNL — left the show in 2010.

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