Andy Samberg’s 2 Kids: Everything He’s Said About Being a Father (Including HowSNLPrepared Him for the Birth of His Daughter!)

Mar. 15, 2025

Joanna Newsom and Andy Samberg attend ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’ New York premiere at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 theater on May 24, 2016 in New York City.Photo:Monica Schipper/FilmMagic

Monica Schipper/FilmMagic

Andy Sambergshares two kids with his wife, musician Joanna Newsom.

Samberg and Newsom keep their family life private and have not shared their children’s names. Still, as a personality who wears multiple hats — comedian, actor, musician, writer and producer — Samberg has had to learn how to balance his career with fatherhood behind the scenes.

In February 2021, he revealed duringE!‘sGolden Globespre-show that while he worked from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, he wasgrateful for the extra family time.

“A lot of these days are with the family, with my wife and daughter. Like sitting out in the sun or something, dancing in the kitchen,” theSaturday Night Livealum said. “But I would say I feel [moments of bliss] a lot these days. That’s the one true silver lining of being homebound — so much wonderful family time.”

From how he prepared for fatherhood to how his children share his sense of humor, here’s everything Andy Samberg has said about his two kids.

Samberg’s daughter was born in 2017

Andy Samberg on the set of ‘Saturday Night Live’ on May 17, 2014.Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty

While Samberg’s daughter’s name and date of birth are unknown, PEOPLE confirmed the actor welcomed his first child in August 2017.

After spending late nights working on theSNLset, Samberg was used to not always getting the best sleep. In July 2018, he toldThe New York Timeshis time on the show served as “good training for parenthood.”

Even with all the sleepless nights, theBrooklyn Nine-Ninestar said he loved his first year of fatherhood.

“It’s been the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Just like a beautiful, incredible dream,” he told the outlet. “It has surpassed every expectation I ever had. It’s definitely been very blissful.”

Samberg’s daughter has his sense of humor

Andy Samberg attends the IMDb Studio at Acura Festival Village on location at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Day 2 on January 25, 2020 in Park City, Utah.Rich Polk/Getty

Rich Polk/Getty

Samberg’s daughter seems to be taking after her father when it comes to her sense of humor. During an appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live!in September 2017, the actor revealed what amused the infant.

“She’s still really young, but she has started just sitting there and making fart noises with her mouth and then laughing really hard,” he said. “So I was like, ‘Oh, well,I’ve taught her everything I know.’ "

A few years later, in March 2021, Samberg shared an anecdote onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbertabout how his daughter had moved on to “doing bits” which was a “dream” for him.

“I’ll walk in her room, and she’s clearly up to something, and I’ll go, ‘What’s going on kiddo,’ and she’ll be like, ‘Oh Daddy, everything here is totally normal. Nothing to see here, Daddy,’ " he recalled. “And I’m just like, ‘What are you watching old comedies?’ She’s got all the lingo down.”

Despite her humorous tendencies, Samberg also told hostStephen Colbertthat his daughter didn’t always think he was funny.

“There was a long time where she would talk a lot about how Mommy was funny, and Daddy is not funny,” he said. “But now she’s keying into my thing. She realizes like I’ll just keep doing something until she laughs.”

She spends some mornings with Samberg

Andy Samberg attends the Vanity Fair Oscars Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, on March 10, 2024.MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty

MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty

TheSNLalum may be a busy actor and producer, but he tries to prioritizetime with his daughter in the morning. In doing so, Samberg has gotten reminders about staying active to keep up with her.

“Every week I’m injuring my neck and back picking up my kid,” he told PEOPLE in 2020. “I definitely have reached the age where I should be stretching first thing in the morning, every day, if I’m going to be picking up a child.”

He continued, “And sometimes I remember to do that and on those days, I feel like a good dad. [But] on the days that I don’t do it … there’s a lot of, ‘No, I can’t pick you up right now, sweetie.’ "

Samberg also revealed that he and Newsom split parenting duties in the morning and often trade off getting up with their little girl.

“Some mornings you do it all together as a family, but it’s been very nice in terms of, like, tonight I can stay up a little later and know that I don’t have to get up super early,” he said.

In a segment forThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he shared that he would often “sing this old standard called ‘Moonshiner.’ "

She likes to play music and cook

Joanna Newsom and Andy Samberg attend the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 25, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.Kevork Djansezian/Getty

“There’s a company, Lyon & Healy, that makes harps and … when it got out that we had had a kid, they very nicely sent a very tiny Lyon & Healy child harp to us as a gift,” he said. “My daughter does sometimes get on there and sort of start strumming it and emulating her mom. It’s pretty cute.”

A glimpse of the toddler-sized harp can be seen in Samberg’s July 2020GQfeature, in which the actor is photographed with the light pink instrument and mentions that his then-3-year-old daughter’s harp skills were “not bad.”

Around the same time, Samberg toldThe New York Timesthat cooking is another one of his daughter’s favorite activities.

“We’ve done corn muffins, carrot and parsley salad, and … we’re helping her more than she realizes, but we’re not about to tell her that that’s the case,” he said. “We just want her to feel inspired and emboldened to do it at all, and feel like she can make things. It’s pretty damn cute.”

Samberg’s daughter lovesThe Nutcracker

In January 2022, Samberg revealed to PEOPLE that his daughter is ahuge fan ofThe Nutcracker.

“It’s going on three years now, she’s obsessed withThe Nutcracker,” the comedian said. “I keep expecting it to tail off, but instead, it’s only growing. I know that music now so well and I have to say it’s so good, so much of movie scoring.”

He continued, “I see the influence ofThe Nutcrackerand Tchaikovsky, it’s been a really cool thing to see through her eyes, but also just to learn about as an adult getting more into it.”

His daughter’s love of the famous ballet started with a gift. Samberg toldMen’s Journalin March 2020 that she was given a book aboutThe Nutcrackerwhere “you push the buttons, and it plays snippets of the music,” and it became “all she wants to hear.”

Samberg waited to watch animated movies with his daughter

Andy Samberg poses at the photo call For Sony Pictures’ “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” at Sony Pictures Studios on April 11, 2018 in Culver City, California.Jon Kopaloff/Getty

Samberg has starred in multiple animated movies, includingHotel TransylvaniaandStorks, but as of 2022, his daughter had yet to watch them or any others.

“She’s still a little too young, but I’m feeling really confident knowing I have four in the hopper,” Samberg toldUSA Todayin January 2022. “I actually made a choice to stop watching all the animated stuff over the last four years so that I would have it saved up to watch for the first time when she does start, so we can do it together.”

Some of the films he’s skipped areEncantoandMoana, which the comedian said he “can’t wait” to see.

“It’s going to be exciting,” he told the outlet. “I was talking to my wife the other day about how I can’t wait to watchE.T.with her. Stuff like that where we’re both like, ‘Oh, we’re going to cry!’ "

Samberg and Newsom welcomed a second child a few years after their daughter

Joanna Newsom and Andy Samberg attend the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.John Shearer/Getty

John Shearer/Getty

The comedian revealed onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonthat he was originally supposed to star in 2022’sWeird: The Al Yankovic Storywith his fellow bandmates, including Samberg, but it didn’t come to fruition.

“We were supposed to do a cameo, like as The Lonely Island, and it coincided with Andy having his second child,” he said.

source: people.com