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‘SNL’s’ Mikey Day Has Knack for Getting Crazy Characters to Go Viral, But Says ‘I’m Not Really Sure Where This Stuff Comes From’
Mikey Day of 'Saturday Night Live' is known for his on-screen antics but behind the scenes, has written some of the show's oddest, most viral concepts
“ SNL ” fans know Mikey Day as the guy who turns up in a bunch of sketches every week, maybe as the father who gets into traffic arguments that require lots of hand gestures and signs or in a longstanding impression of Donald Trump Jr. Without Day and his writing partner, Streeter Seidell, there would be no David S. Pumpkins, the kooky Halloween figure who even made his way into an animated special at NBC, or Miss Rafferty, the strange woman who is often kidnapped by aliens. Last season, Day helped conceive of a sketch in which he played a man who looked a lot like the famous MTV cartoon figure — and even got “SNL” mainstay Heidi Gardner to crack up on screen.
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