![]() Streeter Seidell: Last season was electrifying from the get-go with all the political stuff. ![]() On Monday nights, the writers meet with the host in Lorne Michaels’s office and pitch ideas. Exactly one year from the debut of “Haunted Elevator,” and a week away from a new David Pumpkins Halloween special, this is the story of how it came together, told by those who wrote it - Bobby Moynihan, Mikey Day, and Streeter Seidell. The character - his signature wardrobe, orange hair-streak, hand motions, voice, name - became clearer with each step in the SNL process. Pumpkins, was written by similarly confused people trying to figure out what his deal is. The now-classic sketch (more commonly referred to as “David Pumpkins”), starring Tom Hanks as Mr. “Haunted Elevator” is a Saturday Night Live sketch about confused people trying to figure out what this guy named David S. Following David’s return to Saturday Night Live in October 22, we are republishing it with a new chapter. This story originally ran in October of 2017.
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