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# Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell go wild picking ‘SNL’ pretapes
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-cold-open-snl-mikey-day-streeter-seidell-rundown/
- Published: 2026-04-23T02:31:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-29T13:21:48.000Z
- Description: The duo couldn’t stop at just one — or three — selections for their episode of ‘The Rundown.’
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: The Cold Open • Extras, The Cold Open, SNL, Mikey Day, The Rundown, Streeter Seidell

When it comes to filling out the perfect episode of *SNL*, **Mikey Day** and **Streeter Seidell** got the daunting task of picking the one pretape to represent them all. This category covers way more ground than anything we’ve yet seen for *The Rundown*. Commercials, movie trailer parodies, songs, even Digital Shorts — anything that was recorded before an episode was fair game here. 

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The three pretapes that *The Rundown* producers allowed Day and Seidell to pick are great selections. “Dick in a Box” is often the No. 1 choice for the best Digital Short. “United Way Peyton Manning” was an instant classic. And “Christmastime For The Jews” was part of arguably the greatest episode in *SNL* history.

I love that Day and Seidell — a duo that have teamed up to create countless iconic sketches from the modern *SNL* era — only got paired up because someone thought they both liked to smoke cigarettes. As someone who was actually in college during the glory days of *CollegeHumor*, it’s also wild that twenty years later, Seidell is one of *SNL*’s head writers.

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