Popular comedian and equine therapy slanderer John Mulaney is currently starring in the Broadway show All In, penned by his friend, former Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich. To promote the play, which is made up of short stories all about romance, Mulaney and Rich have been giving several interviews. And a not insignificant number of them have been about scrapped SNL material.

The pair told The New York Times that when they first met at SNL, they wrote a sketch together called “Cash for Silver,” a parody of cash-for-gold commercials that made it to dress rehearsal, but was ultimately cut from the show.

Mulaney and Rich went into more detail about the sketch during their appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, describing how it began as a traditional ad with Bill Hader asking viewers to send in their silver. But Hader’s character becomes increasingly desperate until it...