-You know, I've thought it over,
and I've got to hand it to you guys,
this trip is actually a really great idea.
-This is surprising, you're usually a lot more
petulant when we don't go along with your schemes.
-Stratagems, and I've grown up a lot, Terry.
-Uh, you do know there's no phone reception
at the lake house? -No!
How am I gonna catch Pokémon? It doesn't matter.
It's a community even weekend. -Welcome back to "Late Night."
We're here with Andy Samberg. Hello, old friend.
-Hi, Seth. -You, um,
you're fighting a cold and that's how pretty much
how I knew you for the first seven years of our friendship
was fighting a cold. I felt like, since you moved to
California you got less sick all the time.
But is this just the norm? -We went on a family trip
and then saw my family. And they got everyone sick.
[ Laughter ] -Gotcha.
-So, like, I had moved past it as a member of my family
but then I guess my family gets everyone sick.
-Yeah, well that's -- it's nice to know that you
point fingers at your family as well as my dog.
-My sister's kids. -Gotcha.
-Boned this segment, they boned this segment.
-Hey, I want you to know, I mean,
this is still on the desk since you did it.
Well, you did a famous mommy character.
And we have you on the desk.
And it's really nice because we also have
we have the character I'm asked about the most,
Stefon and the one that I've never been asked about once.
-Right.
And so you want to get something sort of
in the middle next? Probably.
-Yeah, like something right in the middle.
-As far as popular characters. You wrote me this summer,
basically, to thank me for the holiday card
that we sent you, which is a weird time
to get that feedback because, of course,
it was a full six months after you received it.
-Yeah. What happened was we put all of our mail in a bag
because of COVID, and then, you know, to let it burn off
because we knew a lot about the virus at that time.
And then we forgot about the mail. [ Laughs ]
So, yeah, about a month ago
I read about 75 holiday cards
and started reaching out to people.
But I really liked your holiday card this year.
You went out of your way to say
Frisbee didn't make the cut this year.
-Yeah, Frisbee was not on the holiday card.
-Because.
Same time, count of three, one, two, three.
-Frisbee's horrible. -Ugly piece of [Bleep]
rat dog, piece of [Bleep] -[ Laughs ]
What did you say, because there is another kid to put on there.
-I do want to point out, I think we've talked about
this on the show, two years ago
when Frisbee was on the holiday card,
you sent it back to us. -Right.
-Which is the only time in my life
we've received a holiday card back.
You didn't even want it in your home.
-[ Laughs ] It was stinking up the joint.
-[ Laughs ] Hey, speaking of which,
do I need to send you back the Fauci lab coat?
Because I don't want an assignment for this.
-You can keep it, because I feel like
you're probably going to be asked to do it
at like events like corporate events.
-It's for sure going on my best of.
-Your best of -- Your best of "Late Night."
-Yeah. When did "SNL" stop doing "best of's"?
-Yeah, I guess maybe when the DVD industry dried up.
-Right.
Anyway, I'm going to take my temperature real quick.
Let's see what we've got.
I think that's for butt holes.
-99.3 doing okay.
Little hot, might have been the lab coat
-That's a nice -- you' know I've never had as good of a segue,
but you're running a 99 temperature.
-That was planned. -That was planned.
Buddy, congrats.
This is eight seasons, very incredible,
especially because this show famously canceled
and then brought back.
At what point did it go from being a show that you were on?
That was a very funny and a very good show
to something that I believe became really special to people,
was that during the time
where people thought it might be gone forever?
-I feel like that was when it sort of had a moment
of everyone talking about it, at least,
Like when it first came out,
it was well received and it was great.
But then, when it got canceled, it was sort of part
of the, like, a press train about something else,
which is like, hey, fans can save shows.
Isn't that interesting? And then we were the example
that was getting news so much so it was kind of like
culturally kind of a little moment.
I've always said it was a really slow news day, but I'll take it.
You know, I remember we were flying
to New York for the up-fronts
and everyone at the airport was like,
"Hey, congrats on the show getting picked up."
And I was like, since when do people follow, like,
the inner workings of, you know, shows?
But anyway, I think we were lucky
that it didn't get fully canceled.
And we have mostly you to thank Seth, obviously.
-Thank you, buddy. Thank you for giving me the credit I'm due.
When? How did you hold up?
How did you hold up? You don't have any water.
-It's gone now. And it's a shame because I sound like [Bleep]
-When how did you hold up both
physically and emotionally during the last season?
-It was hard. I mean, it was hard shooting
A because the COVID protocols are so strict
and, you know, there's no writer on set.
There's not people throwing around a lot of ideas.
It's a lot of like masks on and the action take them off
and then you do and you put them back on.
So, you know, that was hard.
But just as it got towards the end,
it got really emotionally rough
because we all realized it was truly ending.
And we all love each other.
And I've been spending all that time together for eight years.
And yeah, there was a lot of crying like the wrong times.
There's scenes where you could argue, like you should cry.
And then there's other stuff where it's like I just fell out.
And I'd be like, I just realized the last time
Terry is going to say he loves yoghurt.
-How did it compare to leaving "SNL"?
We had a similar amount of years on.
-Yeah. It's interesting leaving "SNL."
It's interesting. This is terrible television.
I tried to text you and Shoemaker and you were like,
"He's fine." if I had bailed, right?
-Yeah. -I never would've
heard the end of it. -Right. You had to tough it out.
And I feel like people at home are watching right now
and they're appreciating this effort.
-I feel like they're probably changing the channel.
Like this is unlistenable. This dude is sick
and I don't want to experience that with him.
-I mean, I think everybody is probably super mad
at your, what are they, nieces and nephews?
-Yeah, one niece, one nephew. -Okay, one of each.
-Yeah. They got my kids sick. Then she got me sick.
So I'm kind of mad at her, too, my kid.
-No, this, this is good TV. -[ Laughs ]
What else is going on in the news?
So tired.
-Should we let --
-Temp check.
-We'll get one last temp check and then let you go.
Let's see how hot this segment is.
-Oh, yeah, it's back up to 100. -[ Laughs ]
The eighth and final season of "Brooklyn 99,"
premieres is tomorrow night at 8. [ Laughs ]