We chat with Andy Samberg and Neil Campbell about their new ComedyCentral animated series Digman, taking inspiration from national treasures Nic Cage and Indiana Jones, and amassing the best possible comedy cast:
Comedy Central has struck gold with Digman!, its upcoming adult animated adventure comedy series created by Andy Samberg and Neil Campbell. Digman! appears at first glance to be a blend of Indiana Jones and Andy Samberg's iconic SNL Nicolas Cage impression, and while those sources were certainly mined for the series, viewers are quickly transported into the unique world Samberg and Campbell have created.
Neil Campbell: And sometimes, just standing on the set of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, you're like, "It would be funny if we could do this, but we just can't because of standards, or budget, or physical production." [We thought] it would be nice to get an animated show, where you go, "It'd be funny if we could do this, and we can!"
Andy Samberg: I think when we hatched that part of it was when we felt actually confident that we had a show that we felt was worth making. "Oh, what if the whole universe of this is a world where archeologists are huge celebrities?" That, all of a sudden, opened it up to so many new ideas where it suddenly became beyond, like, "Oh, we have this funny character study and a few meta jokes.
When he came on SNL, he even said a thing which actually was very astute, which was that I'm not actually playing him. I'm actually playing a psychotic character that me and my friend Rob Klein came up with. That was almost a lightbulb moment of, like, "Right, I want to keep playing that character; I don't want to keep just doing an impression." There's definitely some intermingling, just the way the voice sounds, obviously.
How much do you think changes when you get in the booth, and start recording with people and feeding off that energy? Your principal cast is amazing, and you have this incredible list of guest performers. When you're writing characters, are you doing so with specific actors in mind? Andy Samberg: I'm trying to peer pressure Kate Winslet into doing it, because I did a movie with her and she kept pretending like she wanted to do it. She was like, "I'm funny. I could be in it." I'm like, "Okay. I'l call you," and she was like, "I'll do it! I'll do it!" I was like, "You're not gonna do it." Neil Campbell: Exactly. We haven't met Rip's family yet, so -Neil Campbell: Multiple times.
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