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Goodbye, Andy: SNL's Digital Short Auteur Heads to That Big Happy Madison Production in the Sky

By Tess Lynch at
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The writing was on the wall, but like invisible ink, you can’t really read the writing until it’s illuminated under the special black-light glow of a publicist’s confirmation. And so we learned, on Friday, that Andy Samberg was officially on Lazy Saturday Night Leave, moving on to the Sandlier pastures of the upcoming Adam Sandler vehicle That’s My Boy, which also, bizarrely, features Vanilla Ice and James Caan (and, less bizarrely, Rachel Dratch and Will Forte). Comparing his seven-year tenure at SNL to a war, and the aftermath to being (“nicely”) shell-shocked, comedian Septimus Smith joked that he will now be peddling his wares on the straight-to-YouTube circuit. See you in the hall of fame, comrade.

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