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

The skit, which starred Ryan Gosling and went viral this spring, was discussed as early as 2018, when it would have featured Jonah Hill.

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.”