Andy Samberg Has a Surprising Candidate For Favorite SNL Digital Short

Has anyone had a favourite SNL Digital Short to share? Anyone who has seen at least one SNL Digital Short. That’s the genius of the short-form video format that The Lonely Island ( Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer ) created for Saturday Night Live in the middle of the 1980s. Every single short clip is expertly crafted yet completely bizarre, ]…

The first post on Den of Geek was Andy Samberg’s amazing choice for the best SNL online quick.

Has anyone had a favourite SNL Digital Short at least once?

That&#8217 is the genius of the short-form video format that The Lonely Island ( Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer ) developed for Saturday Night Live in the middle of the 1980s. Every single short clip is inventive but completely bizarre, making it ideal for appeal to a wide range of comedic sensibilities, as long as those sensibilities enjoy a good dick joke.

cnx. command. push ( function ( ) {cnx ( {playerId:” 106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530″, }). render ( “0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796” ), }),

Some people &#8217, preferred online quick is the navigational gangsta &#8220, I&#8217, m On a Boat. &#8221, For another, early phenomenon &#8220, Lazy Sunday &#8221, takes the king. The Lonely Island &#8217, a March Madness-style game of the clothes, was created when then-SNL head author Seth Meyers chose &#8220, Motherlover&#8221, as the best of all time. While this online debate about the best SNL Digital Short is entertaining ( and occupies space on the internet that would otherwise lead to something unsavory ), it also leaves out one of the most significant voices: The Lonely Island themselves.

On the aptly-named &#8220, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer have just begun delveing into their electronic runs alongside Meyers. Every year, the four friends walk through the SNL Digital Short lore in historical order to discuss the development of the job and their thoughts all these years later. It seems as though the podcast is all building up to the ultimate reveal of which short is The Lonely Island &#8217, s true favorite, as the podcast progresses ( and the quad creates an increasingly complex database of memetic references involving actor Jack Quaid &#8217, s eating habits, and the 2008 action film Righteous Kill ).

We couldn&#8217, t wait that long. That&#8217 is why we requested that Samberg just go ahead and tell us his favourite online shorts when Samberg and author Neil Campbell stopped by Den of Geek Studio at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 to examine the second year of their Comedy Central collection Digman! He graciously accepted, offering an unmistakable all-time classic, a new modest hit, and a short that is really off the beaten path of online discourse.

&#8220, I have a handful of them that I&#8217, m quite fond of, &#8221, Samberg said. &#8220, I really like &#8216, Jack Sparrow. I believe that one kind of sums up everything we do and is still admired by real funny experts. I really like the single we do, and it’s called Great Day, Great Day, and Commerce Street only gidden out of my head. I recently participated in a project called” Tennissers” with Jake Szymanski and Jonah Hill, and it is called” Tennissers.” &#8217, That&#8217, s one that makes me laugh but difficult. It was Jonah’s idea, because a guy in a science video who was like” #8216″ was actually saying,” This is what happens when you get hit in the nuts with a tennis ball. We took it and traveled a great distance with it. &#8221,

Certainly, &#8220, Jack Sparrow&#8221, and &#8220, Great Day &#8221, are natural considerations for any list of the best SNL Digital Shorts. The first should always be in anyone’s top 10, and the second is an underrated stone. On the other hand, Samberg made a genuine wild card selection with &#8220, Tennis Balls, and &#8221. Like other modern shorts, this one hasn’t actually cracked the social zeitgeist. However, if you rewatch the video in topic, it might have been.

The Jonah Hill and Samberg-starring picture, which is about four hours long, is a little longer than the typical SNL Digital Short. However, the more time spent here is more than worthwhile as a tennis ball after being shot into Hill&#8217’s gonads as the camera examines the penile stress from a variety of angles. The little also allows for some ghost hunters to visit them, and it both kills and revives Hill by direct strikes to the nuts. Simply put: it &#8217, s a damned good time.

The best aspect of it, but, might just be how faithful it is to the classic movie. As Samberg noted, an episode of the FSN/ESPN series Sports Science ( hosted by the wonderful John Brenkus who unfortunately passed away earlier this year ), served as inspiration for &#8220, Tennis Balls &#8221. Get a weight of this sample if you thought Hill’s character, his dramatic goatee, long goods shorts, and stupid sandals were a imaginative flourish:

There is no dress more appropriate for getting blasted in the balls, regardless of whether the objective is scientific study or funny enjoyment.

Digman! New episodes of Season 2 are premiered on Comedy Central on Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. ET.

The first post on Den of Geek was Andy Samberg’s amazing choice for the best SNL online quick.