We couldn’t wait that lengthy. That’s why, when Samberg and author Neil Campbell stopped by Den of Geek Studio at San Diego Comedian-Con 2025 to debate the second season of their Comedy Central sequence Digman!, we requested that Samberg simply go forward inform us his favourite digital shorts. He kindly obliged, providing up unquestioned all-time basic, one other modest hit, and one brief that’s really off the overwhelmed path of web discourse.
“I’ve a bunch of them that I’m very keen on,” Samberg stated. “I actually like ‘Jack Sparrow.’ I really feel like that one type of encapsulates all the things that we do and continues to be appreciated by true comedy heads. I actually just like the one we do referred to as ‘Nice Day’ the place I’m on Commerce Road simply gacked out of my thoughts. There’s one I did from my final season with Jake Szymanski and Jonah Hill referred to as ‘Tennis Balls.’ That’s one which makes me snigger so exhausting. It was Jonah’s thought cuz there was truly a science video on-line of a man who’s like ‘That is what occurs whenever you get hit within the nuts with a tennis ball.’ We took it and ran very far with it.”
Certainly, “Jack Sparrow” and “Nice Day” are pure issues for any record of the perfect SNL Digital Shorts. The previous ought to all the time have a spot in anybody’s high 10 and the latter is an underappreciated gem. “Tennis Balls,” alternatively, is an actual wild card alternative from Samberg. This one hasn’t actually cracked the cultural zeitgeist like different digital shorts. However based mostly on a rewatch of the clip in query, maybe it ought to!
The Jonah Hill and Samberg-starring clip is a contact longer than the typical SNL Digital Quick, approaching 4 minutes. However the additional time right here is greater than nicely spent as tennis ball after tennis ball is fired into Hill’s gonads because the digicam examines the testicular trauma from numerous angles. The brief additionally makes time for a go to from some ghost hunters after which each kills and resurrects Hill by way of direct strikes to the nuts. Merely put: it’s a rattling good time.
The perfect a part of it, nevertheless, would possibly simply be its constancy to the unique clip in query. As Samberg talked about, “Tennis Balls” was impressed by an episode of the FSN/ESPN sequence Sports activities Science (hosted by the fantastic John Brenkus who sadly died earlier this 12 months). If you happen to thought that Hill’s character’s placing goatee, prolonged cargo shorts, and dorky sandals have been a inventive flourish, get a load of this specimen:
Whether or not the objective is scientific research or comedic amusement, there may be clearly no uniform extra becoming for getting blasted within the balls.
