-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.