SNL: David Pumpkins (Haunted Elevator)

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Written By Chris Well

“Haunted Elevator” is a Saturday Night Live sketch about confused people trying to figure out the deal with this guy named David S. Pumpkins. The now-classic sketch starring Tom Hank was written by similarly confused people trying to figure out what his deal is.

Ex-SNL castmember Bobby Moynihan told Seth Meyers on NBC's Late Night on Wednesday that Hanks didn't quite understand the gag at first and he tried talking his way of it. 

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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