Michael William "Mikey" Day is an American actor, comedian, director, voice actor, and improvisational performer best known for his role on the improv comedy show Wild 'N Out on MTV and MTV2 from Season 1 until Season 6. He has also appeared in shows such as Short Circuitz, The Underground, and is currently a repertory cast member on Saturday Night Live on NBC.
Career[]
Mikey was born in Orange County, California. He performed at the Improv Olympics in Hollywood for three months. Day also made a appearance on the WB's series, Angel in 2004. He has also appeared on MTV's reality series, Faking the Video. He also appears on the YouTube series, David Blaine Street Magic: YouTube Edition. Day has also appeared in shows such as Wild 'N Out, The Underground, Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz, MAD, and Incredible Crew. Day became a staff writer for Saturday Night Live in 2013 and was later promoted to a cast member in it's 42th season in 2016, he was promoted to a repertory player in its 44th season.
In 2022, Day began hosting the Netflix competition cooking show Is It Cake?.
Trivia[]
- He has worked with Nick Cannon on three shows which are Wild 'N Out, Short Circuitz, and Incredible Crew.
- He has appeared in every episode of the first 5 seasons of Wild 'N Out, until his final season as a cast member in Season 6 where he only appeared in 2 episodes.
- He was entirely on the Black Team in Season 3.
- He was also a consulting producer on the show.
- He has a son who was born in August 2012.
- He was also one of the writers turned cast member for the long-running sketch comedy series, Saturday Night Live.
- He is the third cast member on the show to become a cast member on SNL, first being Taran Killam and second being Pete Davidson.
- He & Pete also did a brief sketch inspired by Wild 'N Out & Game Of Thrones called "Wildling Out".
- He made an appearance, guest starring as a "Team Captain" in an episode for Season 11, making it his first appearance on the show since Season 6, but the episode aired after Season 13 ended.
- His zodiac sign is Pisces.
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