Following the special’s ‘Close Encounters‘ sketch, Mikey Day revealed that he “originally had Steven Spielberg in it” but ended up having to remove the 3x Oscar-winning director’s appearance, resulting in himself “spiraling into an awkward abyss” with Spielberg.
“Everyone loves Steven Spielberg. I love this man so much. He’s so important to me and so many people,” he raved on The Tonight Show. “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.’”
Although the Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) director was game for the cameo and was even at rehearsal, Day explained that the show was running…
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