{"id":543834,"date":"2026-03-25T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543834\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:27:09","slug":"snl-alum-kevin-nealon-slams-castmembers-who-break-during-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543834\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Alum Kevin Nealon Slams Castmembers Who Break During Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFormer SNL<\/a> star Kevin Nealon<\/a> isn\u2019t a big fan of seeing current castmembers break into laughter during sketches.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the comedian and actor didn\u2019t name any of the cast directly, his comments came after a recent episode of the NBC sketch comedy series that saw host Ryan Gosling<\/a> and featured player Ashley Padilla break character several times.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI never broke character on SNL,\u201d Nealon wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cI knew how much time the writers put into those scripts. You don\u2019t want to be the one who throws it off. Lorne doesn\u2019t like when the cast breaks. Even if the audience laughs, it doesn\u2019t work for the sketch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf I could get through the Chippendales sketch<\/a>, I could get through anything,\u201d he added, referencing the iconic season 16 skit with Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze.<\/p>\n

\n\tThroughout the Project Hail Mary actor\u2019s four times hosting SNL, including his most recent turn on March 7, he\u2019s been known to easily crack during the sketches. But it was the \u201cPassing Notes\u201d skit from that episode that had Gosling and Padilla breaking more than usual as SNL decided to prank them.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the sketch (below), Gosling plays a high school principal who visits one of his teachers\u2019 classes, played by Ashley Padilla, and they end up repeatedly intercepting notes being passed around by the students. However, as they read the notes aloud, they realize they\u2019re actually embarrassing observations about themselves.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat led to Gosling and Padilla constantly breaking into laughter was the fact that the notes had been changed since rehearsal, leaving them surprised at what they would be reading.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe following day, Padilla took to her Instagram Story to thank the writers behind the sketch for the humorous moment. \u201cThank you to Mikey, Streeter, and Alison Gates for absolutely destroying me on live television,\u201d she wrote<\/a>, adding, \u201cP.S. Gosling is the funniest person on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEven though it was a planned bit during that show, there have been countless other times that SNL castmembers have broken character over the 51 seasons.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Nealon, he anchored the show\u2019s \u201cWeekend Update\u201d segment from\u00a01986\u00a0to\u00a01995.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former SNL star Kevin Nealon isn\u2019t a big fan of seeing current castmembers break into laughter during sketches.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,137492,14069,12015,12016,92],"class_list":["post-543834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-kevin-nealon","tag-ryan-gosling","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}