There are three things you can count on: death, taxes and Ryan Gosling laughing on “Saturday Night Live.”
The three-time Oscar nominee has become almost as known for breaking character while hosting the iconic late-night show as he is for his disparate roles on the big screen.
During a March 18 appearance on TODAY, Gosling was asked by Craig Melvin if “the rest of the cast (is) going out of their way to make it difficult for Ryan Gosling to keep it together?”
“First of all, one thing they don’t tell you is that when you do ‘SNL,’ you don’t sleep for a week,” Gosling said.
“(You’re) really delirious when you get there and then you’re working with people … that are intentionally trying to destroy you, and just good luck not laughing,” he continued. “I don’t know. I know you’re supposed to take your comedy more seriously. I don’t know, but it’s, I can’t do it. It’s too hard.”
Gosling, who has hosted “SNL” four times, struggled mightily to keep his cool during his most recent gig on the show on March 7.
He broke character in three sketches, including “Wedding Tradition,”when he played an oddball wedding guest insisting on clinking his glass to make the bride and groom kiss. He also laughed in “Passing Notes,” playing a principal who catches student passing notes, as well as “Cyclops,” in which he portrayed a clueless cyclops trying to solve a riddle from a pair of muses in order to get to treasure.
In addition, Gosling, who stars in the upcoming movie “Project Hail Mary,” famously starred in the now classic 2024 sketch “Beavis and Butt-Head,” in which he and Heidi Gardner cracked up when he portrayed Beavis and Mikey Day played Butt-Head during a town hall conversation about AI.
Gosling first hosted the show in 2015. During that episode, he broke out in hysterics during the sketch “Close Encounter,” where he played a man being interviewed after being abducted by aliens.
Gosling has not shied away from discussing his penchant for breaking character on “SNL,” even comparing himself to Jimmy Fallon, who gained his own reputation for laughing during sketches during his run on the series from 1998 to 2004.
“I get in trouble a lot for laughing on the show,” Gosling told Fallon on “The Tonight Show” on March 5. “People always bring you into it. So they always go, ‘You know, you laugh too much.’ You know? ‘You and Fallon!’”
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