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Eddie Vedder, T-Pain, Chris Parnell, Bad Bunny, and a choir (!) also popped up in the concert’s hilarious mash-up.

Andy Samberg, once again, has cut a hole in that box

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star headlined a rousing medley of some of his greatest musical hits from his time on Saturday Night Live at SNL50: The Homecoming Concert at Radio City Music Hall on Friday night.

Samberg’s Lonely Island tribute began fairly unassumingly with a fake-out, as Lady Gaga played the opening notes of her song “Shallow,” from A Star Is Born, on the piano. Samberg hilariously jumped in to sing the Bradley Cooper half of the duet, but botched both the high notes and the lyrics before giving up.

Andy, Andy, I gotta stop you,” Gaga said.

“‘Cause it’s bad?” Samberg asked.

“Yes, it’s very bad,” Gaga confirmed.

“Yeah, I could tell as soon as I started, it was off. Maybe we skip it?” Samberg asked.

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Watch Andy Samberg and Lady Gaga offer their ‘Dick in a Box’ for SNL50’s epic Lonely Island medley
Eddie Vedder, T-Pain, Chris Parnell, Bad Bunny, and a choir (!) also popped up in the concert’s hilarious mash-up.

By Wesley Stenzel Published on February 15, 2025 12:13PM EST
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SNL50: THE HOMECOMING CONCERT — Pictured: (l-r) Bad Bunny, Chris Parnell, Lady Gaga, Andy Samberg performing on Friday, February 14, 2025
Bad Bunny, Chris Parnell, Lady Gaga, Jorma Taccone, and Andy Samberg perform at ‘SNL50: The Homecoming Concert’. Photo: Virginia Sherwood/Peacock via Getty
Andy Samberg, once again, has cut a hole in that box.

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star headlined a rousing medley of some of his greatest musical hits from his time on Saturday Night Live at SNL50: The Homecoming Concert at Radio City Music Hall on Friday night.

Samberg’s Lonely Island tribute began fairly unassumingly with a fake-out, as Lady Gaga played the opening notes of her song “Shallow,” from A Star Is Born, on the piano. Samberg hilariously jumped in to sing the Bradley Cooper half of the duet, but botched both the high notes and the lyrics before giving up.

“Andy, Andy, I gotta stop you,” Gaga said.

“‘Cause it’s bad?” Samberg asked.

“Yes, it’s very bad,” Gaga confirmed.

“Yeah, I could tell as soon as I started, it was off. Maybe we skip it?” Samberg asked.

Gaga agreed, suggesting they perform a different song that better fit Samberg’s vocal range.

“There is one song… but Justin’s not here to do his parts!” Samberg lamented, jabbing at Justin Timberlake, who sang the songs “Dick in a Box” and “Motherlover” with him in their original SNL Digital Shorts that became viral sensations.

Gaga encouraged his idea — with a bit of condescension. “Andy, don’t be a bitch,” she said. “I’ll do it with you.”

The duo then launched into a piano-driven rendition of “Dick in a Box,” which first premiered on SNL’s 2006 Christmas episode hosted by Timberlake, with Gaga singing the lines originated by the “SexyBack” musician, including the unforgettable “it’s my dick in a box.”

After finishing the first verse, Gaga and Samberg slipped in a couple of lines from “Motherlover,” the 2009 Digital Short also featuring Timberlake.

Samberg’s former castmate Chris Parnell then took the stage. “Oh, s—, it’s a medley?” Samberg asked as a beat kicked in.

“That’s right, Andy,” Parnell responded. “Let’s do this, you bitch!”

The duo then performed the beginning of their collab “Lazy Sunday.” Upon Samberg’s delivery of the line “let’s hit up Magnolia and mack on some cupcakes,” the broadcast cut to footage of his Lonely Island bandmate (and former SNL writer) Jorma Taccone dressed in a massive cupcake costume accompanied by three cupcake backup dancers.

The beat suddenly switched to the second part of Kendrick Lamar’s recent track “TV Off.”

Wait, what? This has nothing to do with our song!” Samberg exclaimed.

“I know, but I still wanna do it!” Parnell insisted before screaming “Mustard!,” echoing Lamar’s widely memed shout-out to the song’s producer, which even made it into the Super Bowl halftime show last week. The duo then continued with “Lazy Sunday” over the “TV Off” beat.

But that song was tragically cut short by Taccone “shooting” Samberg with a “laser cat” — harkening back to another recurring digital short — while Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek” played, paying homage to yet another digital short, “The Shooting AKA Dead Sister.”

Bad Bunny — who sang his recent hits “Baile Inolvidable” and “DtMF” during his own set earlier in the concert — then interjected with an operatic rendition of the Lonely Island’s “I Just Had Sex,” singing the hook originally performed by Akon. But then he was interrupted by T-Pain, singing his bridge from “I’m on a Boat” with mermaid backup dancers on either side of him.