That ‘Beavis And Butt-Head’ Sketch On ‘SNL’ Was 6 Years In The Making

Making cartoon characters look like actual human beings is pretty… heh heh heh… hard .

At least, that’s according to “Saturday Night Live ” hairstylist Jodi Mancuso and makeup artist Louie Zakarian ― who told People in an article published Tuesday that it took a bit of trial and error to make Mikey Day and Ryan Gosling look like “Beavis and Butt-Head ” doppelgangers in the show’s now-iconic sketch that aired April 13.

In fact, Mancuso and Zakarian told the magazine that the idea to do the skit was first proposed and then tabled in 2018 when Jonah Hill hosted the show for the fifth time.

“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 told People. “So we fully gave up on it, this is not going to happen.”

When the sketch was pitched again for Season 49, Mancuso and Zakarian said they got some pushback from Day and the sketch’s writer, Streeter Seidell. Apparently Day and Seidell wanted to reuse the wigs from the scrapped 2018 sketch, but Mancuso wanted to “make them a little more human.”

Zakarian said the original teeth they intended to use for Day’s Butt-Head in 2018 also needed an overhaul.

“I made this crazy little bridge that goes into his mouth and the first time it didn’t lift his lip up enough,” he explained. “This time I went in and redid it and made it a little more prominent and made it pop a little more. Just having his lip have those braces and those teeth exposed, it really did help.”

Certainly it did. The end result was so good that even cast member Heidi Gardner — who prides herself on rarely breaking — completely lost it the first time she saw Day in