SNL50 went off with seemingly very few hitches given the myriad celebrities who were roped in (either willingly or unwillingly) and the many, many OG players who worked to punch up characters they maybe hadn’t played in years, if not decades. But just because things went off swimmingly doesn’t mean there weren’t a few things about the making of the special the cast found to be a little ridiculous.
For Andy Samberg (2005-2012) it was the tagline. You may have seen it prior to the release of the special anniversary episode: “A Special 50 Years In The Making.” It’s catchy, I’ll give you that. But Samberg just could not get over NBC’s marketing campaign:
It was trippy being in New York and seeing like every cab and surface covered in ads while working on it. And also that the tagline was, ‘A special 50 years in the making’ knowing that everyone there had started working on it pretty much the week before or that week. I was like, ‘I mean, we’re pulling from the 50 years, but in terms of the actual making…’
