Two «SNL» crew members revealed the «Beavis and Butt-Head» sketch was first pitched in 2018.
Years in the making.
Two “Saturday Night Live” crew members revealed that Ryan Gosling’s hilarious “Beavis and Butt-Head” sketch that aired in April was in the works for six years.
Hair stylist Jodi Mancuso and makeup artist Louie Zakarian told The Ankler on Monday that Jonah Hill was originally going to star in the bit when he hosted “SNL” in 2018.
“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,” said Mancusco, 49.
“Then I think we tried it again, and again I wasn’t happy with it,” she added. “So we fully gave up on it, this is not going to happen.”
But Mancusco said that when the sketch was pitched again, she convinced Streeter Seidell, the sketch’s writer, and Mikey Day, who played the Butt-Head to Gosling’s Beavis, that they needed to use wigs that were “a little more human.”
Meanwhile, Zakarian, 56, fought to change Beavis’ braces in the sketch.
