Host Mikey Day in episode 101 of 'Is It Cake Halloween' Courtesy of Netflix Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text Heidi Gardner had a parting gift for SNL - well, really, it was just for Mikey Day. Day, now in his 10th season of Saturday Night Live (as a performer - he started as a writer three years prior) and his fourth or fifth season (depending what you count) of Is It Cake? on Netflix, doesn't have time to decorate his office at 30 Rock. Or maybe he just doesn't care. Last season, Gardner, his fellow SNL cast member for eight seasons, decided to do something about it. Gardner was not especially concerned with Day's taste so much as she was out to embarrass him. So she hung Christmas lights, random Tiger Beat-type posters of '90s stars and one strategically placed, well-worn Kansas City Chiefs hat. Related Stories TV Amy Poehler Has No Clue Who the 'SNL' Newbies Are in Promo Ahead of Her Hosting Return TV Sherri Shepherd Calls on 'SNL' to Quickly Cast Another Black Woman After Ego Nwodim's Departure: "It Is an Emergency" "Anytime my door was open and people would walk by in the hallway, I'd need to explain to them, 'This is all ironic! This is all ironic!' Especially last season because there were so many celebrities here all the time (for the 50th)," Day told The Hollywood Reporter. "You had, like, Tom Hanks walk by - I'm like, 'Let me explain the Tori Spelling poster...'" SNL season 51 premiered this past weekend with host Bad Bunny; four days later, Netflix debuted (in full) its four-part Is It Cake? Halloween special, featuring guest judges like Kevin Nealon, Pete Holmes, Ron Funches and Whitney Cummings, among others. Is It Cake? has a pretty silly premise - contestants try to guess if something is, indeed, cake - but its following is no joke. All three of the show's official seasons have made Netflix's Top 10 list for at least a few weeks. David S. Pumpkins, the inexplicable Halloween character co-created by Day (and Bobby Moynihan and SNL writer Streeter Seidell) and famously played by Hanks on Saturday Night Live, does not make a crossover appearance for the themed Netflix baking contest. Had he, Pumpkins surely would have went out on his catchphrase, "Any questions?" It's all good, because I had a lot. Day, who is currently pitching sketches to Saturday Night Live alum (and this weekend's host) Amy Poehler, took a break from his, well, day job, to chat with THR about both gigs - as well as the cold open that proved to be the highlight of Emmys night. Read our Q&A below. *** Is It Cake? is the perfect family show. Did you seek out a project with that appeal, or did it just fall into your lap? I think the latter. I thought it was a funny premise, but I had no clue just how much kids, especially, would respond to it. I thought there would be a fun family dynamic that the show has in terms of the end game, because you're guessing at the end and that's just innately fun. Even if you don't care about cake or anything, if you see six objects and you're like, "One of them is made out of cake," I feel like your lizard brain is like, well, "Let me try and suss out the imposter." But I was so very pleasantly surprised when - after that first season came out and kids responded to it so much, they were having Is It Cake?-themed birthday parties. I don't know how much fun I thought it would be for kids to play the game and try and guess. I also had no idea how much they would be engrossed in the baking part of it, where they're constructing the cakes. And so it was really cool. I guess it's almost like a magic trick - they're watching [the bakers] construct an illusion. So, it's been so much fun - just the amount of people who have told me, "Hey, I see you on SNL. You're all right, but my kids are gonna freak out when they when I tell them I met you." It helps that kids are dumb. What they don't quite understand about these cakes is how gross the fondant is. Fondant is very sweet, but it's like, too much sweet. And then a lot of them have layers of modeling chocolate on the outside. Does modeling chocolate taste better? It's like, just very sweet chocolate. It's like clay in terms of its sculpt-ability, but made out of chocolate. So you've got to get through the outer layers of fondant, and then the cake inside is always delicious. I mean, a little bit is fine, but you have a lot of it. How much cake do you eat on set? I'll eat some of it, like on the show, on-camera and stuff. But since it's always around, I don't eat a lot of it. People are like, "Are you just eating cake all day?" I'm like, "Not really." I always encourage the judges to take some home. There's so much of it - some of these things are huge. They're making, like, gym bags out of cake. They're generating so much cake. 'Is It Cake? Halloween' on Netflix Courtesy