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Andy Samberg and Neil Campbell stop by THR's suite at San Diego Comic-Con and discuss the fan response to season 2 of 'Digman!' Plus, they reveal how they got guest stars like Kate Winslet and Mark Hamill for the second season and who they would love to have as guest stars next.

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00:00You'll be shocked to know that I asked Kate Winslet because I was in a movie with her and said, please do my show.

00:05She kept, I think, seriously saying to me, like, I'm funny. Why am I not in your stuff? I'm funny. Let me be funny.

00:12I was like, well, I'm working on this and like showed her an edit of Digman I was working on.

00:16I was like, you want to do a voice on season two? And she was like, yes.

00:19And I was like, I'm going to hold you to it. She was like, fine, I'll do it.

00:22And then I called her and I think she remembered. She promised. I was like, fuck.

00:30I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter here at Comic-Con 2025.

00:38And I'm sitting down with Andy Samberg and Neil Campbell to talk all things Digman.

00:42Thanks for being here, guys. Thanks for having us. Thank you.

00:44So season two just premiered last night. What has the fan response been like so far?

00:49A tidal wave of jubilation, I would say.

00:53For example, I feel like we had some friends text us and go, it was funny.

00:58Yeah. I had some friends over to watch last night and one of my friends made a cake that was delicious.

01:06So that was pretty good.

01:08And Neil told me that everyone laughed and those people almost all work in comedy.

01:13So I would say it's a smashing success.

01:15That's amazing. And how would you say that the show, you know,

01:18digs deeper and takes things to the next level this season?

01:21Really love that. Neil, do you want to answer that?

01:23Sure. Well, we sort of ended the first season on a cliffhanger.

01:27And so we kind of are paying that off and continuing that a bit as well.

01:32But also just now we were able to see how the first season did.

01:36As we were writing the first season, we were also animating.

01:39It didn't air until we were all done, obviously.

01:41And so now we've had a season under our belts and we're able to kind of go,

01:45what worked, what maybe didn't work as well,

01:47and how can we focus on improving it across the board.

01:50And the animation, I also think, looks even better this season.

01:54Everyone really kind of knocked it out of the park.

01:56We're spreading out the world, going further into the psyches of the characters,

02:00things like that.

02:01And there's a lot of big name guest stars this season.

02:04Mark Hamill, Kate Winslet.

02:05Yes.

02:05How did you go about booking the guest stars for this season?

02:08Well, you'll be shocked to know that I asked Kate Winslet,

02:11because I was in a movie with her and said, please do my show.

02:14I was in Budapest shooting the movie Lee,

02:17and she kept, I think, seriously saying to me, like, I'm funny.

02:22Why am I not in your stuff?

02:23I'm funny.

02:24Let me be funny.

02:24I was like, well, I'm working on this,

02:26and showed her an edit of Digman I was working on.

02:28I was like, do you want to do a voice on season two?

02:30And she was like, yes.

02:31And I was like, I'm going to hold you to it.

02:32She was like, fine, I'll do it.

02:34And then I called her, and I think she remembered she promised.

02:37I was like, fuck.

02:37But she was very nice and came and recorded and was wonderful.

02:43But, yeah, I mean, we knew Mark Hamill really loved Brooklyn Nine-Nine

02:47because he was one of the famous people who helped save the show

02:51when we got canceled.

02:51And I had also met him through a movie we had produced called Brigsby Bear

02:54with Kyle Mooney.

02:56So we hoped he would join us on Digman as well

02:59because he does so much animation voice acting, and he was awesome.

03:03Any dream guest stars for future seasons?

03:06Hmm.

03:07You know, I always want to get Daniel Day-Lewis out of retirement.

03:10I think that would be.

03:11We need that.

03:13Maybe Smaug the Dragon?

03:16And not been into Cumberbatch.

03:17No, not Cumberbatch.

03:18I could call Cumberbatch now, though, because I'm in the roses with him.

03:20That's right.

03:20Double plug.

03:21But no, no, the real Smaug.

03:25Amazing.

03:27And that's it.

03:27Those two.

03:29Well, we'll manifest it here on The Hollywood Reporter.

03:31We're putting it out there.

03:32Yeah.

03:32Hall H panel.

03:33Have either of you been on stage in Hall H before?

03:36I'm actually not sure.

03:37I've been here twice before, once for the movie Hot Rod and once with the cast of Brooklyn

03:41I-9.

03:42But is Hall H the biggest one?

03:44It is.

03:44Yeah, the biggest stage at Comic-Con.

03:46I think that I have not been on that one.

03:48So I'm sure it'll be mellow.

03:50I mean, and you're going to be up there with a bunch of other Comedy Central animation shows.

03:55Yes.

03:56What is it like being a part of the Comedy Central adult animation family?

04:00I mean, it's really cool.

04:01It's kind of funny to us that we're getting lumped in with these two legendary shows.

04:06But we'll take it, you know, anything to bring attention to ours as well.

04:10And we're huge fans of South Park and Beavis and Butthead and everything that Mike and those

04:14guys have done.

04:15So it's cool.

04:17It's exciting.

04:18Yeah.

04:18And everyone at Comedy Central has always been, they've never been like, no, change it to

04:22be more like a Comedy Central show.

04:23They're very supportive of what we want to do.

04:25And, you know, it's always been great.

04:28You, of course, worked together before this show and you wanted to create a new thing together.

04:32And that's how Dig Man came to be.

04:34Yeah.

04:34Why do you think you make such a great creative team?

04:38I think it's as simple as finding each other really funny all the time.

04:42Yeah.

04:43Which sounds simple, but, you know, you meet a lot of people and a lot of them are really

04:48funny, but they're not necessarily funny how you feel funny.

04:51And I feel like Neil and I feel funny the way each other feel funny.

04:57Yeah.

04:57And I think we both wanted to create something and it was kind of, we had similar goals and

05:03we make each other laugh and it really kind of just fell into place at the right time.

05:08So since this is your Hall H debut today, we're going to do some Comic-Con bucket questions.

05:13I have the crypto popcorn bucket.

05:17Got it.

05:17Yeah.

05:18Really official here.

05:19Have you seen the new Superman at all?

05:21I have.

05:21Yeah.

05:22What was your take?

05:23I thought it was great.

05:24And Beck Bennett, who did the voice on our show this season, is so funny.

05:29Is Beck in it?

05:30Beck's in it.

05:30Yeah.

05:31He's Steve Lombard.

05:31Yeah.

05:32Oh, I thought you were going to say he was Superman.

05:34Well, no.

05:34He bullies Superman.

05:36I feel like he bullies Clark Kent.

05:37He bullies Clark Kent?

05:38Yeah.

05:38Oh my God.

05:38He's perfect for that.

05:39Yeah.

05:40He came over to my house last night to watch the premiere.

05:42He's one of the people I was talking about.

05:43Yeah.

05:44We're bringing it all full circle.

05:45Yeah.

05:46Sorry.

05:46Talk to him last night.

05:47Yeah.

05:48But go ahead.

05:48Draw a question.

05:49And you both can answer it.

05:51What's your favorite Comic-Con memory?

05:54Well, for you, you just got here.

05:55Yeah.

05:55For me, I just got here.

05:56So kind of this crypto conversation is number one.

06:01Mine is, I'm only thinking of this because you reminded me of it this morning.

06:06There was a Brooklyn Nine-Nine pop-up thing where you could come inside what looked like

06:10the bullpen of the 99th Precinct.

06:14And Lin-Manuel came down and took a picture with me and I texted him.

06:20It looked like an album cover and he put a little parental guidance sticker on top of

06:24it.

06:25And he resend it to me this morning, I assume, because his phone reminded him that however

06:28many years ago today that happened.

06:31Amazing.

06:32There you go.

06:34Ooh.

06:34What's the best cosplay you've seen at Comic-Con this year?

06:37Gozer.

06:38Gozer.

06:38Yeah, we've been there about 30 minutes and we've been interviewed by Gozer.

06:43Yeah, from Ghostbusters.

06:45Yes.

06:45Yeah.

06:46Not a different Gozer that you might be thinking of.

06:48Yeah.

06:49Not Gozer Smith.

06:51Yeah.

06:52Is there a cosplay that you're hoping to see, Neil?

06:54Besides Digman.

06:55Besides a Digman character?

06:56And if someone's dressed as Indiana Jones, I will take it as Digman.

06:59That counts.

07:00I'm not asking.

07:00That counts as a Digman, yes.

07:02What would I want to see?

07:03I don't know.

07:03What about you?

07:04Just like any kind of like kaiju.

07:08I like when the people, like when they're a robot and then they kind of fold up and it

07:12turns into, you know, a jet or like when people do the transformer thing.

07:16When someone actually transforms into a vehicle?

07:18Yeah.

07:19Okay.

07:20I've seen that before where they're big and then they get down small.

07:23Yeah, and then they kind of hunch and then it actually looks like a jet.

07:25Oh, yeah, I have seen those.

07:25I've seen those.

07:26Yeah.

07:26But also they could really do it even better.

07:29Someone has to put an actual like jet booster in the back of their costume one time and just

07:33go like zzzz.

07:34There's got to be one up at Camp Pendleton.

07:37On social media, have you seen people dressed up as Digman characters before, either for

07:42a Comic-Con or for Halloween?

07:44Have you?

07:45I'm not on social.

07:46I'm not really too much either and I have not, but maybe this is the year.

07:51We're going to see it this weekend.

07:53And let's do one more for each of you.

07:54Okay, great.

07:56When was your first Comic-Con?

07:57Well, it must have been 2006 for Hot Rod, a movie that degraded the box office.

08:05Almost 20 years ago.

08:07Yeah.

08:07And has aired on Comedy Central.

08:09Ooh, there you go.

08:10Yeah.

08:11This is my first Comic-Con.

08:13Amazing.

08:13That's the answer.

08:14Who's your favorite comic book villain and why?

08:19If you asked me this when I was younger, I would say Kraven from the actual Spider-Man

08:26and Kraven comics.

08:28That was a classic one that I was really into.

08:30An anti-hero, really, sort of.

08:32Well.

08:33Like a villain, yeah.

08:34Yeah.

08:34This was pre-Kraven movie, you know.

08:37Gotta say Sabretooth.

08:39Amazing.

08:43And because he's strong and fast.

08:45Okay, great.

08:46Yeah.

08:46That's the one.

08:47Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

08:48All right.

08:48We'll cool it with the bucket questions.

08:50Thank you for doing that.

08:52But a couple quick questions before you guys go.

08:56Andy, for you, you have a movie coming up with Jason Momoa.

08:58How did that creative collaboration come about?

09:01Yes.

09:02I met Jason at the SNL 50th.

09:05And we were excited to meet each other.

09:08It was late at night, and I'll just leave it at that.

09:11And he picked me up and spun me around in the air.

09:14And I told this to my two friends, Rob Klein and John Solomon, who are wonderful writers as well.

09:19And they called me about a week later, and they were like,

09:21we have an idea for a movie with you and Jason Momoa.

09:23Do you think you would want to do that?

09:24And I said, I like it.

09:25Let's call him.

09:26And so we did, and he did indeed like it.

09:28And we took it out, and hopefully we'll be making it.

09:31Amazing.

09:31Can't wait to see it.

09:32And then also, your Lonely Island brother directed and wrote The Naked Gun.

09:37Yes.

09:37Akiva, have you seen it?

09:38I've seen it many times, yes.

09:39And what's your take on it?

09:40I love it.

09:41It's very funny.

09:42Liam Neeson and Pam are both really, really funny.

09:46Akiva did a great job.

09:48Akiva and Dan and Doug, the writers, did a great job.

09:51It's really just joyful, and I hope everyone goes and sees it.

09:55It's so good.

09:56Yeah.

09:57Neil also saw it.

09:57Yes.

09:58Amazing.

09:59I can't wait to see it.

10:00And I know everybody is always asking you this,

10:02but are there any Lonely Island collaborations coming up where we can see you guys get back together?

10:07I mean, we have our company together, so technically everything we do is pretty much together,

10:12just not on screen or in the writer's room together.

10:15But I don't know.

10:16I mean, we had a couple of videos we got on SNL last year, which was really fun.

10:21So I'm hoping there's more stuff like that coming up.

10:25Amazing.

10:25Thank you guys so much for being here, and I hope you have a great rest of your Comic-Con.

10:28Thank you so much.

10:29Yeah.

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