Anyone who’s familiar with TV star and musical comedian Andy Samberg knows that, not all that long after he left “Saturday Night Live,” he ended up starring on the police-centered workplace comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” So how did this come to pass, and why did Samberg commit to another intense regular gig just one year after leaving something as famously grueling as “SNL“?
During a Television Association Critics’ panel in 2013 (via TheWrap), Samberg admitted that he wasn’t in the market for a TV gig, but something convinced him: the fact that “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” was co-created by Michael Schur, who had previously created “Parks and Recreation.