Mikey Day Celebrates His 200th SNL Episode: Watch His First Sketch

Mikey Day is coming into rarefied SNL air. With this week’s Will Ferrell-hosted season finaleDay marks his 200th episode as a solid member on Saturday Night Live.

That’s in accordance with LateNighter’s podcast associate the Saturday Night Network, whose crew tracks SNL look statistics.

Day’s journey at SNL He started behind the scenes in 2013 as a author earlier than he stepped into the highlight as a featured participant in 2016. He was promoted to repertory participant in 2018.

Day’s first sketch look as a solid member got here throughout the Season 42 premiere on October 1, 2016, when he originated the character Matt Schatt within the post-monologue sketch “Live Report” (beneath).

It can be the primary of a number of appearances for Schatt over time, every time pairing Day with a information reporter or TV host who cannot imagine his character is married to such a lovely girl. Margot Robbie performed his spouse within the first sketch, whereas Jennifer Lopez and Ana de Armas stepped into the position in subsequent installments.

In addition to his on-screen work, Day has additionally helped pen among the most memorable SNL sketches of the previous decade alongside writing associate Streeter Seidelltogether with “Haunted Elevator” (aka David S. Pumpkins), “Washington’s Dream,” and the viral “Beavis and Butt-Head” sketch with Ryan Gosling.

Outside of Studio 8H, Day hosts Netflix’s hit present Is It Cake? and has appeared in movies like unfrosted, Good Burger 2and Home Sweet Home Alonewhich I co-wrote. Alongside Seidell, he is additionally growing new takes on Rugrats and Inspector Gadget for Disney.

Day is at the moment the ninth longest-serving solid member in SNL historical past by episode rely:

Kenan Thompson—461
Darrell Hammond—267
Seth Meyers—253
Colin Jost — 249
Michael Che — 242
Fred Armisen — 220
Kate McKinnon — 204
Cecily Strong—202
Mikey Day — 200

And he could effectively climb additional up the listing. “I want to work there for as long as I can,” Day informed Variety‘s Brian Steinberg in an article published last summer. “I want to work there until it’s sad.”

Our hearty congratulations to Mikey Day. Here’s to a different 200.