To Break or Not To Break?
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Carol Burnett and friends did it all time! But on SNL, "breaking character" is frowned up. But is it really a bad thing?
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| 0:00.0 | To laugh or not to laugh, that is the question. |
| 0:02.7 | It's one more thing. |
| 0:04.7 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:05.9 | One more thing. |
| 0:08.4 | Does anybody remember laughter? |
| 0:11.5 | So it's getting some attention in some circles for people who watch Saturday night live |
| 0:17.1 | Saturday night this last weekend that there was so much of the cast breaking up |
| 0:23.2 | and laughing during sketches. |
| 0:25.3 | I mean, more than I've ever seen ever combined in 40 years of watching the show in one |
| 0:32.3 | episode. |
| 0:33.8 | And, um, well, an interesting thing about that, Katie, you're not old enough to have lived through the Carol Burnett show, which was a big popular sitcom, like the number one show in America back in the 70s. |
| 0:45.0 | But legendary, these various clips where Harvey Corman and Tim Conway would break each other up and laugh. |
| 0:52.5 | And as a kid, I really enjoyed it. |
| 0:54.1 | And a lot of people enjoyed it. |
| 0:55.1 | And there's still popular YouTube clips. |
| 0:57.4 | But it would seem that there's a limit to how much of that you can take based on Saturday |
| 1:03.5 | Night Live. |
| 1:05.0 | And we're going to play you some examples. |
| 1:08.1 | There's some famous Saturday Night Live clips. |
| 1:10.0 | I mean, Jimmy Fallon used to break up a lot. |
| 1:13.4 | I mean, he just, for some reason, some people can't hold it together as well as other people. |
| 1:17.2 | And I've watched those clips over and over again and cried laughing. |
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