Mike Myers was a Saturday Night Live cast member for exactly six years, from January 21, 1989, to January 21, 1995. During that time, he collaborated with SNL creator and producer Lorne Michaels on two movies: 1992’s Wayne’s World and its 1993 sequel Wayne’s World 2. Believe it or not, Michaels didn’t really have any interest in making a single Wayne’s World movie; nevertheless, two of them. When Myers was initially cast on SNL in 1989, Michaels actually pitched him on a movie idea of his own, and it had nothing to do with any of the characters Myers had played up until then.

In an interview from the Netflix Is a Joke comedy festival in 2022, Myers told American Hustle director David O. Russell that Michaels had invited him to his house in the Hamptons at some point during the first seaso

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