![]() We were working on it for a while, but we couldn’t quite crack where it goes after that. Different ghouls were going to sing a song, but they were supposed to be scary, like, “I live under the stairs.” Then it could go to three coffins, and we were all three going to be skeletons dancing to the “Holiday Rap” breakdown. MD: Late at night, we were writing, trying to crack a sketch where a couple goes into a haunted house. It was just Mikey and I alone first, talking about the one that eventually became “SWAT Recon.” Then it was tabled for a few hours, and Bobby came in and they started talking about it and I joined in, and everything changed. We wrote one where he’s Frankenstein that I was working on for a good chunk of the night. So we just dropped it and wrote a few other things. SS: But he also was like, “fellas, I don’t break dance.” I don’t know why we assumed Tom Hanks would know how to break-dance. That put the kibosh on that. Tom weighed in that, maybe they are like Dutch brothers. There’s a SWAT team perched at a window doing reconnaissance, and then in the apartment over, Tom and I are dancing. MD: The original way to encapsulate that in a sketch was what eventually became “SWAT Recon” with Chris Pine. SS: We first pitched Tom the idea on Tuesday afternoon. MD: I’m obsessed with the song he’s dancing to: “Holiday Rap” by MC Miker and DJ Sven. The writers work until the break of dawn, and a little more after that, to pen as many sketches as they can.īobby Moynihan: that video with the little Indian fellow dancing around.īM: Every time the music stopped, he stopped dancing. I don’t know if we had locked down what we wanted to do yet - we didn’t pitch it on Monday. SS: We were happy to not write a political sketch. MD: He surpasses your greatest expectations of who he is. You’re just praying that he’s cool and nice, and then he is, and you’re like, “Oh, thank God.” If you’re our age, you grew up with Tom Hanks. SS: But then we were all just pumped Tom Hanks was hosting. SNL’s David Pumpkins Sketch Works Because It Confused You All of a sudden, there were so many eyes on the show, and it was being talked about like it hadn’t been. Streeter Seidell: Last season was electrifying from the get-go with all the political stuff. On Monday nights, the writers meet with the host in Lorne Michaels’s office and pitch ideas. Exactly one year from the debut of “Haunted Elevator,” and a week away from a new David Pumpkins Halloween special, this is the story of how it came together, told by those who wrote it - Bobby Moynihan, Mikey Day, and Streeter Seidell. The character - his signature wardrobe, orange hair-streak, hand motions, voice, name - became clearer with each step in the SNL process. Pumpkins, was written by similarly confused people trying to figure out what his deal is. The now-classic sketch (more commonly referred to as “David Pumpkins”), starring Tom Hanks as Mr. “Haunted Elevator” is a Saturday Night Live sketch about confused people trying to figure out what this guy named David S. Following David’s return to Saturday Night Live in October 22, we are republishing it with a new chapter. This story originally ran in October of 2017.
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