The Lonely Island member looks back at that disastrous performance at Madison Square Garden.
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“Justin hit me up,” Samberg recalled.
“He’s like, ‘Yo, I’m coming to New York.
Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake star in SNL’s ‘Dick in a Box’.Dana Edelson/NBC
I’m doing Madison Square Garden.
We’re going to do it as the last encore.’
And I was like, ‘Fuck yeah.
This is it.’
So I went there in the afternoon.
We did a rehearsal.
We come up through the middle of the stage, all dramatic.
And it was the first time I’d ever worked with in-ears.”
But at rehearsal, it was like super calm and chill.
We’re just in a big old empty Madison Square Garden.
We come up through the middle.
I can hear him perfectly.
We’re doing all our funny choreographed moves.
And we’re like, oh my God, it’s happening."
I’m like, oh no.
I cannot hear the beat.
I’m supposed to sing first.
So I’m just like, I think I know where we are in the song.
And I can’t hear myself.
And I start like five octaves higher than what I’m supposed to do.
I know it’s wrong, but I’m so overwhelmed," he continued.
And he sees that it has happened.
And he looks at me like, what What?
I point to my ears like, ‘Ah!’
So we go through the rest of it and I never recover.
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