Andy Samberg and Lauren Shoemaker on Saturday Night Live

I had been doing stand up for like five or six years, seven years on off. The best I ever got to was doing a couple of shows here and there at the improv. And then I did premium blend on Comedy Central that was kind of high. But we never thought we'd get SNL. That was like my big only dream. We didn't really know about it the same way they do now. It was also just a different time. Like YouTube really didn't exist yet when we were doing it. So you didn't know that compare and despair thing. For us, it was like, let's just make stuff until we feel like we're good and it'll work