“ Saturday Night Live ” hair stylist Jodi Mancuso and makeup artist Louie Zakarian recently told The Ankler (via People ) that the now-iconic Beavis and Butt-Head sketch with Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day was originally pitched for host Jonah Hill in 2018. The “Superbad” favorite hosted the Nov. 3, 2018 episode during Season 44 with musical guest Maggie Rogers.
“Even at that time it was late coming into the show, so there wasn’t a lot of prep time and I wasn’t fully happy with the wigs. Then I think we tried it again, and again I wasn’t happy with it,” Mancuso said. “So we fully gave up on it, this is not going to happen.
” The sketch finally made it to air in April 2024. Heidi Gardner played a NewsNation anchor hosting a discussion on AI, but the event is disrupted by two audience members who look exactly like Beavis and Butt-Head, played by Gosling and Day under makeup and prosthetics. Gardner completely lost it midway through the sketch when she turned to see Day as Butt-Head sitting behind her.
She broke character and couldn’t get herself composed for nearly a minute, leading to huge audience cheers. “People love when the [cast] breaks because it’s funny, right?” Mancuso told The Ankler. “But when you have a moment like Heidi did, I mean, come on.
It was funny and it made everybody else enjoy that moment even more.” Mancuso added that Gardner “really didn’t get to fully see” Day’s “full costume” until the live show, noting that in.