Andy Samberg is all smiles as he departs Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday.

The Saturday Night Live funnyman was returning to the Big Apple after attending a series of meetings to discuss future film projects.

Andy was most recently at Northwestern University in Chicago where he spoke with students and did a slew of interviews with local media. Chatting with The Daily, Samberg shared where he gets his ideas for those famous digital shorts.

“All kinds of ways,” he revealed. “Sometimes I’ll think of something in the shower three weeks before the show or sometimes it’s literally be Friday afternoon and the show is the next day and we have to have a digital short, so we just sit down and lock our office door and try to come up with something. And sometimes it goes even later than that, as happened this past week. I don’t know if you guys saw the last digital short (Gnarls Barkley) actually did cancel. They’re our friends, so it’s no hard feelings, but we had a whole ‘nother idea, that by the way I thought of like two hours previous to that, so it was still cutting it pretty (expletive) close. We were all set up and ready to shoot and I was in that ridiculous wig and outfit and then they called and were like, we’re not coming.”

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