The unfairly funny, attractive, and cool Ryan Gosling hosted SNL (Saturday Night Live) over the weekend. (Seriously, how did this guy win the everything lottery?) During the show, he performed in a sketch alongside Mikey Day as grown men who coincidentally look like the MTV cartoon characters Beavis and Butt-Head, respectively.
The catch is, that neither of them claim to have ever seen the cartoon and doesn’t know who the characters are. They also deny having ever been told that they look like the characters. The sketch is mostly a flimsy concept, with no actual jokes. But, the appearance of the two as Beavis and Butt-Head doppelgängers is hilarious. This is evident by Heidi Gardner completely losing it or, “breaking,” as she looks at them. It doesn’t take long for Gosling, himself, to also break, followed by Mikey Day.
The laughter from the actors themselves made the whole sketch, in my opinion. In fact, there are several sketches over the history of SNL that stand out to me because, while funny, the actors’ laughter made it even better.
If you’re a fan of the show, you’ll know that the show’s creator and producer, Lorne Michaels, isn’t a fan of actors breaking that 4th wall. At least, he wasn’t, as referenced by Christina Applegate on the “Fly on the Wall” podcast, hosted by SNL legends Dana Carvey and David Spade. Christina and David memorably broke in the legendary Chris Farley sketch where he starred as “Matt Foley,” a motivational speaker with a few life problems of his own. One of those was “living in a van down by the river”
Maybe Lorne has lightened his stance on breaking, as I’m pretty sure I’m not the only fan who loves it. Here are 5 other sketches that were made better by the SNL actors losing their composure. If you want to see how difficult it is for them to keep it together, try to watch any of them without cracking a smile.
