Not every Saturday Night Live sketch is going to be a winner, but at least it has the honor of making it to air. These days, even some of the sketches that couldn’t be fit into the live broadcast are still able to be seen when they’re uploaded to YouTube and become available to stream with a Peacock subscription. But there are plenty of SNL sketches that don’t make it past the conception stage or are cut for time, though there’s one in particular that Weekend Update anchor and writer Colin Jost refuses to let die.
In the latest episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Meyers, who worked on SNL from 2001 until he took over Late Night in 2014, told cohosts Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, who made the SNL Digital Shorts with fellow podcast cohost Andy Samberg as the Lonely Island trio, about how Jost has been trying to get a sketch called Manny Manimal on the air numerous times over a span of more than 15 years. The first attempt was when Taylor Lautner hosted SNL in December 2009, with Meyers explaining:
