“Digman!,” Andy Samberg’s new animated show for adults, is set in an alternate world, where archeologists are celebrities. On a recent visit the La Brea Tar Pits, in Los Angeles, he mused on the state of the profession.
The La Brea Tar Pits, in Los Angeles, is the world’s only urban Ice Age excavation site, and scientists have been working there for more than a century to extract fossils from the jammy seeps. The other day, the comedian Andy Samberg paid a visit. “Digman!,” his new animated show, for adults—it’s on Comedy Central after “South Park”—is set in an alternate world, where archeologists are celebrities.
Samberg is forty-four, and married to the musician Joanna Newsom; they are the parents of a five-year-old girl, who is into country music, and a one-year-old boy. At the tar pits, he moved gingerly and wore a brace on one knee. Several months ago, he tore his A.C.L., playing soccer: a bad foot plant, on grass, while visiting his parents in Berkeley. He met Mitra Jouhari, who plays Rip Digman’s assistant, Saltine, on the soccer pitch; Nick Kroll had brought her.
In such a place, time can seem elastic. “If aliens or if a different species becomes the dominant species on earth, would you want to know that in a hundred thousand years or whatever, they would dig up your bones and put you back together into a skeleton?” he asked. “Does that idea make you feel uneasy or excited? Or indifferent, I guess. Those are your three choices.” He grinned. “For me, it’s a little of each.
Samberg thought this might be a fruitful story line for “Digman!” “Obviously, the show’s about archeologists, not paleontologists,” he said. “But we’ve been flirting with the idea of there being a really serious rivalry.”
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