{"id":2142182,"date":"2025-11-08T03:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2142182"},"modified":"2025-11-08T03:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:02:19","slug":"mikey-day-recalls-awkward-moment-after-cutting-steven-spielberg-from-snl50s-close-encounters-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mikey-day-recalls-awkward-moment-after-cutting-steven-spielberg-from-snl50s-close-encounters-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Day Recalls \u201cAwkward Moment\u201d After Cutting Steven Spielberg From \u2018SNL50\u2019s \u2018Close Encounters\u2019 Sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While SNL50: The Anniversary Special<\/a> was stacked with special guest stars, Steven Spielberg<\/a> didn\u2019t make the final show.<\/p>\n

Following the special\u2019s \u2018Close Encounters\u2018 sketch, Mikey Day<\/a> revealed that he \u201coriginally had Steven Spielberg in it\u201d but ended up having to remove the 3x Oscar-winning director\u2019s appearance, resulting in himself \u201cspiraling into an awkward abyss\u201d with Spielberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone loves Steven Spielberg. I love this man so much. He\u2019s so important to me and so many people,\u201d he raved on The Tonight Show<\/a>. \u201cSo we had Steven Spielberg come in at the end of the sketch playing himself. He\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, I have experience in this subject matter, and I\u2019d like to make a movie based on your life.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/a> (1977) director was game for the cameo and was even at rehearsal, Day explained that the show was running…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While SNL50: The Anniversary Special was stacked with special guest stars, Steven Spielberg didn\u2019t make the final show. Following the special\u2019s \u2018Close Encounters\u2018 sketch, Mikey Day revealed that he \u201coriginally had Steven Spielberg in it\u201d but ended up having to remove the 3x Oscar-winning director\u2019s appearance, resulting in himself \u201cspiraling into an awkward abyss\u201d with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2142183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2142182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mikey-Day-Recalls-Awkward-Moment-After-Cutting-Steven-Spielberg-From.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142184,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142182\/revisions\/2142184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}