Mikey Day Says ‘It Would’ve Been Fun’ for ‘SNL’ to Address Donald Trump’s Indictments (Exclusive)

For the last few decades, politics and parody have gone hand-in-hand for the writers and cast of Saturday Night Live, and right now, there's plenty of fodder for some hilarious new sketches. Unfortunately, though, the show is on summer hiatus after ending its 48th season early due to the writer's strike. For SNL repertory player Mikey Day, it's certainly a missed opportunity.

Day, who is known for his running impressions of the former president's son, Donald Trump Jr., spoke to The Messenger ahead of the premiere of Netflix's Is it Cake, Too?, the second season of his hit baking competition show, and he admitted that recent news items, including Donald Trump's criminal indictments, would've made for some truly outlandish work on the show.

"When he was president, it was a new thing every day. Now that he's not, it feels like a new thing every week," Day said of the show's usual cadence of dealing with Trump-related news. "It does feel like you're gone for a week. You're like, 'Did you see what Trump did now?' It's like, how do you even parody this?... His court appearance would've been fun to dramatize on the show when he was being arraigned."

Though SNL was one of the shows impacted by the Writers Guild of America strike, audiences wouldn't have seen the show tackling these issues anyway due to the show's tradition of taking summers off.

"I guess I take a little bit of solace in knowing that a lot of this stuff is happening now… We're always off in summer anyway, so I'm like, 'Okay. Well, we didn't miss that because of the writers' strike. We would've been off no matter what," he said. "But there's always stuff that happens in the summer where you're like, 'Oh, I wish we were on right now because this is crazy.'... But I'm sure once we start back up again, there'll be plenty to address as we gear up for the next election."

Day, who is also a writer on the show, is optimistic that the writers' strike might end before Saturday Night Live is due to return to NBC in the fall.

"Hopefully a deal can be reached where the WGA is happy that its members are all taken care of and compensated as they should be. So I'm hoping it should wrap up," he said. "I'm keeping my fingers crossed."

If and when it does, Day wouldn't mind seeing the show parody his Netflix series somewhere along the way.

"Every once in a while people will make an Is It Cake? reference on a table read… And I'm just like, 'I don't know what [the sketch] would be,'" Day explained. "It would be very surreal. But then at the same time, it would be like, 'Wow. I guess this show has made it if it's parodied on SNL.'"