Love Is Blind almost had an outrageous Saturday Night Live parody, courtesy of Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner.
Day, 45, explained the concept for the sketch that he and Gardner, 41, thought up but ultimately never aired. It would have mocked the Netflix dating show’s concept of singles matching without ever meeting face-to-face by giving it an NSFW twist.
“It was a parody of Love Is Blind. It was called Love Is Ass,” he told Us Weekly exclusively as part of his partnership with Dollar Car Rental. “In Love is Blind, you don’t see the person. And in this, it would’ve been you’re sitting in a little room and there’s a little hole in the wall and someone just puts their ass [up to it] and all you can see is their ass. So you’re having a conversation staring at their rear end.”
But like any SNL veteran, Day, who is in his ninth season on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show, has become used to seeing his sketches cut. He takes it in stride.
“I’m usually pretty good about moving on and being like, ‘all right, onto the next one,’” he said.
There may still be hope for the Love Is Ass idea. Love Is Blind has run for eight seasons since premiering in 2020 and has been renewed for a ninth season, which will make it relevant into SNL’s 51st season.
“That one would have been fun,” Day added. “Maybe one day.”
Though that sketch never aired, Day also looked back on one of his favorites that made the cut, in which he got to do a Beavis and Butthead parody with his favorite SNL host Ryan Gosling.
“It always feels like when he hosts, [he’s the] popular kid in school,” he said. “Everyone likes the cool, beautiful, popular kid hanging out with the dorky comedians. But he is the nicest dude so that’s always a highlight when Ryan comes by.”
Day also brought his sketch comedy chops to his new ads for Dollar Car Rental, in which he plays five different eccentric characters, parodying normal travel annoyances.
“I got to play a bunch of different people and just kind of make fun of the travel nonsense out there,” he said. “I had a blast doing it.”
He said he enjoyed making fun of the common problems that any traveler can relate to — like people who hog the airport chargers.
“People who hog chargers at the airport,” he added. “Usually there’s only like two working outlets at an airport. People who post up and plug all their stuff in. We do make fun of that in the campaign as well. Just the types of people you come across.”
Saturday Night Live airs Saturday on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET.
