Andy Samberg recalls pranking Colin Jost in the bathroom at “SNL”: 'He'd be super scared'

"I would run out and turn all the lights off in the hall," Samberg remembered.

Andy Samberg is reliving the memories of pranking Colin Jost — wanna come with?

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star recalled one of his most notorious gags from the Saturday Night Live office in a conversation with Seth Meyers on The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. As they discussed turning nighttime fears into the SNL sketch "The Mirror," Meyers asked if Samberg's repeated pranks in the office bathroom were rooted in genuine terror. "You famously would ask people, 'Wanna come with' to the bathroom at SNL," Meyers said. "I had always assumed 'Wanna come with' was for company. Is it that 'Wanna come with' [from] a little bit of fear?”

Samberg admitted that he might have actually been afraid of going to the bathroom alone. "Probably, yeah," he said. "Which is ironic because then I would still do that trick that I talked about, where Jost would come with me and then I would run out and turn all the lights off in the hall. I think I've talked about that before. He'd be super scared, obviously."

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Samberg, Jost, and Meyers had previously discussed the prank on Late Night with Seth Meyers, after they staged a sketch based on the "Wanna Come With" gag on the show's "Second Chance Theatre" segment.

Jost, who cowrote the sketch, confirmed that he'd been on the receiving end of Samberg's "Wanna Come With" incredibly frequently. "I think I was asked it probably five times a night," he said. "He would ask you to go to the bathroom, and then while you were in the bathroom, he would sneak out and scare you. Thereby not making anyone want to go to the bathroom with you."

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"He turned all the lights off in the entire hallway at SNL," the "Weekend Update" anchor said, recalling the most effective of Samberg's bathroom pranks. "I came out into darkness, and he jumped out from a cabinet and yelled, and I screamed."

The Popstar actor laughed at the audacity of his rudeness. "It was like 5 in the morning and the building was deserted, and I insisted he join me," he said. "Like, 'C'mon man, just come with me.' Like the biggest dick move of all time."

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On the same Late Night segment, Samberg's Lonely Island collaborator Akiva Schaffer said that trying and failing to get the "Wanna Come With" sketch on SNL actually affected the comedian's real-life behavior. "After it went to dress [rehearsal and] didn't air, he kinda stopped doing it," Schaffer said. "He stopped saying it that way."

Samberg said that the running joke remains intact, and only the phrasing has changed. "Now I just go like, 'You wanna come with me to the bathroom?'" he said.

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