-I´m so happy to have you here.
-I´m so happy to be here. Thank you.
It´s my first talk show ever. -It´s your first talk show.
-Yes. -I´m so honored
to have you here. [ Cheers and applause ] So, we --
Before you were a cast member, we wrote together at "SNL." And I want to make sure I have
my timeline right, because then you wrote and
performed on the "Maya & Marty" variety special...
-Yep. ...before you were a cast member
at "SNL?" -Correct, yeah.
-And how was your time working with Maya and Marty short?
-It was fantastic. Those two are amazing.
-Yeah. -Martin Short would
totally mess with me. -Uh-huh. -He likes to take people down,
in a fun way. -He really does. -We would be shooting sketches, and there would be
a studio audience. And then during stop downs,
it was kind of quiet and the studio audience were
just kind of looking at us. And he´d be like, "Mikey, tell
everyone what it´s like to be the least famous person here." [ Laughter ] He´s just kind
of like that dude. -Yeah.
-But he´s so endearing. -Yeah.
He´s very charming. -Yeah, it was fantastic.
-So, you wrote -- And as somebody
who wrote on the show, I have inherent jealousy
when someone writes a hit. Because David S. Pumpkins was
an immediate hit of a sketch. -Yeah, it was very fun.
-Yeah. -It was interesting. Tom Hanks is amazing.
-Yeah. This sketch is so popular,
not only did it explode as a Halloween costume -- This is a Madam Tussaud´s
David S. Pumpkins. -Yeah, and that´s fantastic. What´s awesome about this is you
can tell they just put a David Pumpkins suit
on an existing Tom Hanks... -Yeah, you´re right.
-...because he´s so calm. And I think this is in the room
that was, like, a Hollywood party.
-Yeah, exactly. -Because it´s just clearly
Tom Hanks, like, "Hi." -I´m so mad at myself
that I did not realize that´s what they did. I can´t believe how quickly
they made a new wax Tom Hanks. -I know, right?
Let´s make David Pumpkins just chilling with
a nice smile on his face. -So, now you have an animated
David S. Pumpkins special. -Yep.
-You are one of the voices. You co-wrote it.
-Yeah, with Bobby Moynihan and Streeter Seidell.
-This is animated special. -Yep.
-It looks a little bit -- It´s got, like, some Saturday
morning cartoon graphics. -It´s got a very old-school kind
of throwback animation style. -For kids?
-Is it kid-friendly? -Yeah.
That´s how it came to be. We -- Especially
after the sketch, like, seeing social media and
a lot of kids dressing up as David Pumpkins.
I saw YouTube videos of kids acting out the sketch
from beginning to end. And we thought it would be fun
to do a Halloween special, like, with David Pumpkins for kids. Because David pumpkins is
kind of like a kid himself. I mean, this thing
is very like -- My 5-year-old son does
that type of thing, you know what I mean?
-Yeah. So we decided to gear
it towards kids. And there´s a lot of --
There´s kind of like a leaving cookies
for Santa Claus. -Uh-huh.
-There´s the David Pumpkins equivalent, you know, for kids. -Now I do want to point out your
time-slot for your cartoon for kids is 11:30
on Saturday night. -Yeah, exactly. Which is very David Pumpkins...
-Yes. -...because you have questions.
-You immediately have questions. -Yeah.
It also might be there was no room. And Lorne gave us
the first half hour of "SNL." But --
-I feel like I´m going to turn on
Saturday morning cartoons and it´s going to be
like a Keith Morrison "Dateline" about the grisliest
Halloween murders. And I´ll be like, "You guys
should have flipped these." "This is in
the wrong time slot." -Exactly.
-Yeah. -So --
-Yeah -- you -- Bobby Moynihan was here
and talked a little bit about the origins of sketch. Originally --
And then we have the Bobby cartoon and then
we have the you cartoon. -Yeah.
And he said himself, he said, "We should be left skeleton
and fat skeleton." -[ Laughing ] Yeah.
-Like -- and I said, "No, you´re right skeleton." -You´ve been
a writer now since 2013. One of my favorite
things to ask -- sketches that you have pitched
that have not found their way to the show. -There are so many.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ] -There was one I wrote
with Streeter Seidell, who I wrote the David Pumpkins
sketch and the special with. -Yes.
Great writer, as well. -We thought it was so funny. It was a commercial parody
for a car security system that would guarantee that no
thief would break into your car. -Mm-hmm.
-And it was a bag of old McDonald´s on --
on the floor in your passenger seat.
[ Light laughter ] And you could tell
by the audience. -Yeah.
-I mean, it was a huge hit... -Yeah, sure.
-...at the table read. -Yeah, yeah. I´m sure Lorne´s going
to watch that when he hears that audience lose their mind. "Oh, my gosh! It needs to go straight to air!" But, we thought --
-So, was the idea a criminal would see the bag --
-Yeah, it would, like -- It had testimonials
from car thieves and -- You know, they were like,
"Look, if I´m going to break into a car and I see
a bag of old McDonald´s on the floor, like, I know
it´s going to smell bad, have that old McDonald´s smell."
-Yeah. "And there´s ten other cars on
this block that don´t smell." And then there was
a deluxe system that had a leash and
a wet towel in the back seat. -Gotcha.
-And it was like -- like you took
your dog to the beach. -Right, there you go.
-And we -- Streeter and I were like,
"Oh, this is going to crush." -Yeah.
-And then it was just nothing. And we´re like, "Okay,
we hate this now." It´s so funny how quickly --
-Uh, anything else? -We had a --
with Brian Tucker, we had a sketch
of Mortal Kombat. It was a few years ago,
Mortal Kombat X was coming out. -Right.
-And Pete was playing a video game and it --
You know those character select screens where it´s like,
"Choose your fighter," and it´s like,
"Raiden. Scorpion." It just --
And then it was like, "Raiden. Scorpion, Sonya." And then it went to Kevin Hart.
-Uh-huh. -And he looked like Flavor Flav,
I would say. And he just went,
[ High voice ] "Crazy cheese!" [ Normal voice ]
And then Pete was like, "What?" And then, of course,
he did not want Crazy Cheese. And it was like, "You´ve
selected Crazy Cheese." -Gotcha.
-And then I just remember his combo move was Leslie Jones
came out as his girlfriend and went, "I´m Karen!" [ Laughter ] So it was a little
too complicated. Maybe some day.
-Some day. -Um -- uh.
-Yeah. -Judging by the audience
response Mortal also -- -I think --
"SNL" is back next week. I think we can look forward to
both McDonald´s security system and Crazy Cheese.
-Yeah, it´s going to dominate the show. -I can´t wait to see the
special. Thank you very much
for being here, Mikey. -Thank you, I love you.
-It´s just such a pleasure.
This is his first TV interview ever? Wow. Hope to see him in a lot more film roles so he'll do more of these. Behind the scenes stories are always the best.
Not sure how well they would have been executed but those two rejected ideas sound funnier than 80% of the sketches this season.
Did Mikey just reveal he has a five year old son?
His shirt is giving away too much moire
Crazy Cheese for when Kevin inevitably hosts for Jumanji! AND KAREN.
Crazy Cheese actually sounds pretty damn funny.
Original David S. Pumpkins skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS00xWnqwvI