United Kingdom, June 30 -- Mikey Day gave acting advice to Meryl Streep ahead of the Saturday Night Live 50th special.

The 45-year-old actor-and-comedian had to inform the 76-year-old Hollywood legend to stop memorising her lines and rely on the cue cards in the long-running Close Encounter sketch, where she played former SNL cast member Kate McKinnon's mom in the February 16 episode.

Speaking about the sketch - which featured Pedro Pascal, Woody Harrelson, Kate and Meryl talk about their experiences after another alien abduction - Mikey said in a recent episode of the Hey Dude... The 90s Called! podcast: "At SNL, you talk to a lot of famous people and you're used to it, but there's like a handful of people that it's still like, 'What i...