The Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special was considered a great entry into the long-running sketch show’s canon, but there was one special guest star who didn’t make the final cut: Steven Spielberg!
SNL star Mikey Day was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon this week explained what happened and why the legendary director didn’t make it into the episode’s “Close Encounters” sketch (the one that features Kate McKinnon, Pedro Pascal, Meryl Streep, and Woody Harrelson detailing alien abductions).
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Unfortunately, the anniversary special was already running long by the time they got to the sketch, forcing everyone to make difficult cuts, he explained.
“Everyone loves Steven Spielberg. I love this man so much. He’s so important to me and so many people,” Mikey told the late-night host. “So we had Steven Spielberg come in at the end of the sketch playing himself. He’s like, ‘Hey, I have experience in this subject matter, and I’d like to make a movie based on your life.’”
“And we’re like, ‘I think we have to cut Steven Spielberg,’ because it was an added thing! You know what I mean?” said the Is It Cake? host. “I don’t even like talking about it! It makes me uncomfortable. Dude, I don’t like that this happened. I hate it. It’s an awful thing.”
Don’t miss the Is It Cake? holiday special debuting on November 25! Check out the trailer here.
Source: justjared.com
