"Funniest Comedian TONY SAM vs ANDY SAMBERG"

Tony Sam is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and former marine biologist from Chicago now living in Los Angeles. He has worked extensively as a television producer and writer. LA Weekly named him one of 10 Comedy Acts To Watch in 2015. His debut comedy album, Scaredy Cat, was released on Stand Up! Records in 2014. Sam began performing stand-up around 2003 in Chicago, and studied improv and sketch at iO Theater and The Second City Training Center. He became known as an alternative-comedy scenemaker, co-founding (with Brooke Van Poppelen) Chicago Underground Comedy in 2005, a weekly rotating showcase of alternative comics designed to forefront stand-up as opposed to sketch comedy and improv. Kumail Nanjiani was one of the original cast members. Chicago's NewCity called Sam one of the city's most interesting comics in 2009, and praised ChUC as a "mainstay of alternative comedy" and "one of the two best places to perform in Chicago". Several critics have praised the comic range of Sam's voice; Jake Kroeger of website The Comedy Bureau wrote that it "is so unique, drastically wandering up and down in frequency, that he makes characters exceptionally hilarious and absolutely unforgettable." Sam's television credits include co-executive producer for Cooking Channel's Food: Fact or Fiction? with Michael McKean and a producer for Josh Gates Tonight, Expedition Unknown, Jay Leno's Garage, Girl Meets Farm, Storage Wars: Barry Strikes Back, Brandi & Jarrod: Married to the Job, and MTV's Ridiculousness. Sam has also written for Smosh and MTV News. McKean praised Sam's work on Food: Fact or Fiction? in an interview on Andy Richter's podcast, Three Questions with Andy Richter, calling Sam "a very funny writer." As an actor, Sam has appeared on truTV's Hack My Life, Conan, G4's Attack of the Show!, Food: Fact or Fiction?, and Josh Gates Tonight. Sam has performed frequently at the Hollywood Improv, and at festivals including the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, San Francisco Comedy & Burrito Festival, Bumbershoot, SF Sketchfest, Chicago Sketch Fest, Cloudtop Comedy Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, and New York Underground Comedy Festival.

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Andy Samberg (born David A. J. Samberg; August 18, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician. He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live (2005–2012), where he and his fellow group members have been credited with popularizing the SNL Digital Shorts. Samberg has been in several films, including Hot Rod (2007), I Love You, Man (2009), That's My Boy (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), and Palm Springs (2020). Samberg has had lead voice roles in Space Chimps (2008), the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise (2009–2013), the Hotel Transylvania film series (2012–2021), and Storks (2016). Since 2013, he has starred as Jake Peralta in the Fox, and later NBC, police sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, for which he is also a producer. For his work on the show, he was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2013. Samberg majored in experimental film. He became an online star and made his own comedy videos with his two friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. When YouTube was created in 2005, the streaming of their videos became much more widespread. Samberg became a featured player on Saturday Night Live in part because of the work he had done on his sketch comedy website TheLonelyIsland.com, which helped them land an agent and eventually get hired at Saturday Night Live. Prior to joining its cast, Samberg was (and remains) a member of the comedy troupe The Lonely Island, along with Taccone and Schaffer. The trio began writing for Saturday Night Live in 2005 and released their debut album, Incredibad, in 2009. Samberg appeared in numerous theatrical films, commercials, music videos, and hosted special events, including the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.

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