Mikey Day has no problem cracking up his Saturday Night Live colleagues during sketch performances on the show — and they’ve seen and heard pretty much everything. So it’s a good bet he’ll have no difficulty sending audiences here into hysterics when hosting a Just for Laughs gala July 26 at Théâtre Maisonneuve.

Day has performed and written some of the 50-year-old show’s more memorable sketches. Even without opening his mouth, he sent TV viewers — and cast members — into convulsions doing Beavis and Butt-Head at an AI conference, with Ryan Gosling as the former and Day as … well … the butt of the bit.

“I feel I peaked with that one,” Day says in a Zoom interview.

Doubtful. He has also had audiences doubled over in the oft-recurring Eric and Donald Trump Jr. interplay, with his Don Jr. babysitting Alex Moffat’s Eric. Or, opposite Tom Hanks, in the haunted David S. Pumpkins routines.

This will mark Day’s first-ever appearance at JFL, but he is well aware of the fest and the comics who have played here, including many of his fellow SNL players discovered at the New Faces series.

“I’m an old face now,” he cracks. “But it’s shameful I’ve never been before. I’m definitely following in some mighty footsteps and just hope to come close to what many have done here in the past.”

The ever-self-effacing Day, 45, got his start in comedy collaborating with the famed Groundlings troupers in L.A. He has been holed up with SNL the last 12 seasons as a performer and writer and has earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series along the way. Yet he has no clue about how many sketches he has penned for the show over the years.

“I know I have written hundreds and hundreds. But I couldn’t even guess. It’s probably........

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