I think maybe they were switching up the jokes in that classroom skit so the actors didn’t know what the notes said until they read them. Ashley seriously looked surprised by the bag of spaghetti. I didn’t think that skit was very funny but I appreciated that they were having a lot of fun with it.

I did love the fake pharmaceutical ad—that one had me nearly falling off the couch laughing. The one about the winks-esque bakery was also hilarious — impressed with the set, costuming and musical numbers for one skir, plus legitimately a funny concept and well executed.

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Anonymous wrote:WHY is breaking annoying?

What are we expecting?

It can be very, very annoying to other cast members and writers.

Imagine this: You are a relatively new SNL cast member. One of the writers finally wrote a skit you were perfect for. Some really funny amazing stuff happens at the end. But before that stuff happens, another cast member (oh, let's say Jimmy Fallon, because he was notorious for this), starts "breaking" ... and the audience roars in response to his un-contained laughter. They find it adorable. They find it funny. They love it. The amusing thing is now Jimmy Fallon "breaking," and the the hilarious end of the skit all but disappears in it. The writers' hard work? Doesn't shine. The new cast member? Fades into obscurity.

We actors call it upstaging. Chewing on the scenery. It's not appreciated.

The breaking is often funnier than the entire skit!

Yeah ... for you.

Um, SNL hasn't been funny in years but you do you boo!

It’s impossible to take seriously a 12-year old Valley Girl who starts her post with “Um.”

Boo.

Valley Girl? Oh ok Grandma

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WHY is breaking annoying?

What are we expecting?

It can be very, very annoying to other cast members and writers.

Imagine this: You are a relatively new SNL cast member. One of the writers finally wrote a skit you were perfect for. Some really funny amazing stuff happens at the end. But before that stuff happens, another cast member (oh, let's say Jimmy Fallon, because he was notorious for this), starts "breaking" ... and the audience roars in response to his un-contained laughter. They find it adorable. They find it funny. They love it. The amusing thing is now Jimmy Fallon "breaking," and the the hilarious end of the skit all but disappears in it. The writers' hard work? Doesn't shine. The new cast member? Fades into obscurity.

We actors call it upstaging. Chewing on the scenery. It's not appreciated.

The breaking is often funnier than the entire skit!

Yeah ... for you.

Um, SNL hasn't been funny in years but you do you boo!

It’s impossible to take seriously a 12-year old Valley Girl who starts her post with “Um.”

Boo.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WHY is breaking annoying?

What are we expecting?

It can be very, very annoying to other cast members and writers.

Imagine this: You are a relatively new SNL cast member. One of the writers finally wrote a skit you were perfect for. Some really funny amazing stuff happens at the end. But before that stuff happens, another cast member (oh, let's say Jimmy Fallon, because he was notorious for this), starts "breaking" ... and the audience roars in response to his un-contained laughter. They find it adorable. They find it funny. They love it. The amusing thing is now Jimmy Fallon "breaking," and the the hilarious end of the skit all but disappears in it. The writers' hard work? Doesn't shine. The new cast member? Fades into obscurity.

We actors call it upstaging. Chewing on the scenery. It's not appreciated.

My person. I agree 1,000%.

Jimmy Fallon was absolutely the WORST. He would “break” on the dumbest skits, giggling like a little girl when nothing remotely funny was going on, and then he’d sneak glances with the “cool kid” cast members (especially mean girls Amy Poehler and Tina Fey) as if they knew something you didn’t. It basically gaslit people into thinking the skits must be funny since these brilliant comedian are cracking up.

He employs the same strategy on his night show. Always cracking up to distract from the fact that he’s not that funny.

I assume talentless men like him, Seacrest, Kutcher, et al are/were boy toy twinks for what men who control their careers. There is no other explanation

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Anonymous wrote:I like it when it’s once in a while like the old Debbie downer sketch at Disney world.

I feel like last night’s with Ryan gosling was every single sketch.

Even Mikey Day, who used to keep it pretty together, has been breaking in every scene lately.

It’s just too often, and it becomes unfunny. The writing is already pretty mid, so when they break it doesn’t add to it, it just reminds me that they’re laughing at some inside joke that isn’t actually funny.

Agree. It's one thing when the content and fellow performances are truly funny and they break. When neither are that great, it's just annoying.

I haven't seen a brilliant sketch in some time, but maybe I am pining for the old days (late 90s/early 00s) like a crotchety old lady....

Every generation pines for the SNL of their youth. Mostly it’s you that has changed, the show was always kind of daft.

We got rid of cable but my husband likes to keep the tv on, so we tune in to the weird free channels that come with our tv. One of the channels in our regular rotation is just old SNL skits 24/7.

And I’ve been forced to admit that many of the classics I remember fondly from the 80s and 90s, and the ones I’m now discovering from the 70s greats, often really weren’t all that funny. There was a lot of relying on catchphrases repeated over and over. The 70s stuff was still rough around the edges and coasted quite a bit on a sense of “look at us, aren’t we naughty.”

I stopped watching regularly somewhere in the 90s, and I’ve been surprised at how funny much of the humor since the 2000s has been. Sure, they’re only showing the best recent bits. But I imagine that’s true for all of the decades.

Painfully unfunny boosted by bots on social media.

Last nights show was great. Gosling is so funny. I loved his monologue.

It doesn’t bother me when they break when it’s actually funny (last night was a lot though!) and some hosts just really are having so much fun you can tell they don’t take themselves seriously which is why the show is so intriguing to watch how they handle it

I do love SNL and always root for every cast to click.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WHY is breaking annoying?

What are we expecting?

It can be very, very annoying to other cast members and writers.

Imagine this: You are a relatively new SNL cast member. One of the writers finally wrote a skit you were perfect for. Some really funny amazing stuff happens at the end. But before that stuff happens, another cast member (oh, let's say Jimmy Fallon, because he was notorious for this), starts "breaking" ... and the audience roars in response to his un-contained laughter. They find it adorable. They find it funny. They love it. The amusing thing is now Jimmy Fallon "breaking," and the the hilarious end of the skit all but disappears in it. The writers' hard work? Doesn't shine. The new cast member? Fades into obscurity.

We actors call it upstaging. Chewing on the scenery. It's not appreciated.

They don’t seem to mind on the program. So maybe take it less seriously yourself?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WHY is breaking annoying?

What are we expecting?

It can be very, very annoying to other cast members and writers.

Imagine this: You are a relatively new SNL cast member. One of the writers finally wrote a skit you were perfect for. Some really funny amazing stuff happens at the end. But before that stuff happens, another cast member (oh, let's say Jimmy Fallon, because he was notorious for this), starts "breaking" ... and the audience roars in response to his un-contained laughter. They find it adorable. They find it funny. They love it. The amusing thing is now Jimmy Fallon "breaking," and the the hilarious end of the skit all but disappears in it. The writers' hard work? Doesn't shine. The new cast member? Fades into obscurity.

We actors call it upstaging. Chewing on the scenery. It's not appreciated.

My person. I agree 1,000%.

Jimmy Fallon was absolutely the WORST. He would “break” on the dumbest skits, giggling like a little girl when nothing remotely funny was going on, and then he’d sneak glances with the “cool kid” cast members (especially mean girls Amy Poehler and Tina Fey) as if they knew something you didn’t. It basically gaslit people into thinking the skits must be funny since these brilliant comedian are cracking up.

He employs the same strategy on his night show. Always cracking up to distract from the fact that he’s not that funny.

That was a very long time ago, my dude.

The clinking glasses skit was so stupid it was hilarious.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WHY is breaking annoying?

What are we expecting?

It can be very, very annoying to other cast members and writers.

Imagine this: You are a relatively new SNL cast member. One of the writers finally wrote a skit you were perfect for. Some really funny amazing stuff happens at the end. But before that stuff happens, another cast member (oh, let's say Jimmy Fallon, because he was notorious for this), starts "breaking" ... and the audience roars in response to his un-contained laughter. They find it adorable. They find it funny. They love it. The amusing thing is now Jimmy Fallon "breaking," and the the hilarious end of the skit all but disappears in it. The writers' hard work? Doesn't shine. The new cast member? Fades into obscurity.

We actors call it upstaging. Chewing on the scenery. It's not appreciated.

My person. I agree 1,000%.

Jimmy Fallon was absolutely the WORST. He would “break” on the dumbest skits, giggling like a little girl when nothing remotely funny was going on, and then he’d sneak glances with the “cool kid” cast members (especially mean girls Amy Poehler and Tina Fey) as if they knew something you didn’t. It basically gaslit people into thinking the skits must be funny since these brilliant comedian are cracking up.

He employs the same strategy on his night show. Always cracking up to distract from the fact that he’s not that funny.

Who do you think was the worst when it came to breaking characters?

Jimmy Fallon or Pete Davidson?
I think the fact that Pete broke in 95% of his sketches made him even funnier as a comedian.

Yes Ryan Gosling is like the only guest host that makes all the regular cast break character in their skits.

He even gets Mikey Day to break character which doesn’t happen too often.
My favorite sketch of course was the Beavis ➕ Butthead skit last season.

Last night’s episode was really funny - - most especially the skit where both Ryan and Ashley Padilla had to read aloud from the student’s notes.

Unbeknownst to them, the contents of the notes had been changed w/out their prior knowledge so what they were reading aloud was stuff they were hearing for the first time!! 😃😂🥲

One of my favorite skits by far.
Oh and add to that, two live performances by the Gorrilaz and last night’s show was five stars!

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't watched last night's yet but he always makes the strongest people break on the alien encounters. In the second one Kate gets him laughing. I think they all must have bets:

A butch lesbian saying crude, vulgar words with her head in a man's butt. How freakin' novel, genius and hilarious!

GASP! Oh Herman, my pills!!!

Go to bed, grandma.

Anonymous wrote:I love that every time Ryan Gosling hosts the cast breaks down laughing. Last night’s episode was so much fun.

He is delightful. Funny, charming and self-deprecating.