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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

To Break or Not To Break?

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

News

4.8815 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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