A Wardrobe Mishap, Adam Driver With A Spear, And 22 Other Things That Caused People On "SNL" To Hilariously Break Character

There are lots of things to love about Saturday Night Live, but possibly the best of all is getting to watch someone who is fully in character try their very best not to laugh...and, of course, fail miserably.

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Honestly, a good character break can make a just ~OK~ sketch automatically 1,000 times funnier. So let's take a look at some sketches with character breaks that are so good, it's almost impossible not to laugh:

1.When everything rapidly derailed in "Super Showcase Spokesmodels" when Kristen Wiig almost ran Maya Rudolph over with a golf cart:

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2.When we were all cracking up just like Pete Davidson in "Career Day" because Adam Driver tried to hit a fake bird with his cane (for ~emphasis~) and accidentally skewered it instead:

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3.When Bill Hader ran into the table and nearly took out Melissa Villase?or not once, but TWICE in "Girlfriends Game Night":

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4.Genuinely, the whole first "Close Encounter" sketch, because Ryan Gosling is 0.0001 second from full on laughing the entire time, and it's excellent:

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5.And the second one — "Another Close Encounter" — where Kate McKinnon decided to use Ryan for a ~demonstration~, and he literally forgot how to function:

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6.When the pup in "Dog Court" got a little too wiggly, resulting in a good 30 seconds of Cecily Strong hilariously breaking and getting lots of kisses:

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7.When nobody could keep a straight face while delivering their lines in "The Love-ahs With Barbara and Dave," because Jimmy Fallon was snickering the whole time:

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8.Truly any "Debbie Downer" sketch, but the way every single person breaks in "Debbie Downer: Disney World" makes it the very best:

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9.When Aidy Bryant's wardrobe assistant ran on set too early in "Inside the Beltway" and made Aidy laugh so hard, she barely made it through the rest of the sketch:

Can we also please take a moment to appreciate Cecily and Kenan, who were very carefully toeing the line of "deeply concerned" and "oh my god, I CANNOT break too."

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10.When Fred Armisen stepped in some guac during the "New Girlfriend" sketch, and completely lost it when Jason Sudeikis ate it right off his shoe:

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11.When Christina Applegate and David Spade tried their best to hide their laughter in "Matt Foley: Van Down by the River," but Chris Farley was just too damn funny:

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12.When the basket of meat in the "Weekend Update: Smokery Farms" smelled so disgusting that it made Kate McKinnon — reigning queen of not breaking character — absolutely lose it:

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13.When Will Ferrell pulled out the tiniest flip phone known to man in "Jeffrey's," fully sending Sean Hayes and Jimmy Fallon into hysterics:

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14.When the camera switched over to Pete Davidson in "Diner Lobster," and he was — like all of us — unabashedly laughing:

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15.The first "Californians" sketch, where Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, and even Fred Armisen were constantly on the verge of breaking:

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16.When Candice Bergen messed up her line in "Extremely Stupid" and couldn't stop laughing long enough to recover, so Gilda Radner delivered this gem:

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17.When Jeff Goldblum was hilariously confused during the "Space, the Infinite Frontier: Dr. Kent Wahler" sketch, because Will Ferrell literally just started improvising:

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18.When Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig spent a solid 20 seconds trying (and failing) desperately not to laugh when Kristen got a littttle messy in "Hollywood Dish With Scarlett Johansson":

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19.When Janet Jackson tried her best not to break in the "Corksoakers" sketch, but lost her cool at this line:

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20.When Jonah Hill couldn't help but break character during the "Benihana" sketch because Leslie Jones was laughing so hard at his performance:

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21.When Tim Robinson made the perfect entrance in "Barnes and Noble Firing," sending Kevin Hart into a fit of laughter that lasted through the end of the sketch:

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22.When Kenan Thompson made such a bonkers face in the "So You're Willing to Date a Magician" sketch that Awkwafina and Leslie Jones couldn't get their lines out without laughing:

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23.When Brittany Murphy fully cracked up while trying to rock some noisy leather pants during the "Leather Man" sketch:

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24.And finally, every time John Mulaney surprised Bill Hader with new lines when he played Stefon on "Weekend Update," giving us his iconic ~I'm definitely not laughing~ pose:

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Did we miss any sketches with character breaks so good that they made the sketches 100 times better? If so, tell us about them in the comments below!