Saturday Night Live cast member Bill Hader is notorious for losing it during his Stefon segments, but he has a crutch: He can cover his mouth. It all seems like part of the process. At the very least, his crack-ups provoke crack-ups from the audience (and Seth Meyers), and unlike past cast members who broke character (Jimmy Fallon, Horatio Sanz), it somehow works for Hader.
You may recall a recurring skit from the last season of SNL: “The Californians.” During the live broadcast, it was hard enough for Hader and some of the other cast members to keep it together. But in the dress rehearsal, they just let it go. Hader is HILARIOUSLY useless in the skit. Later, even Kristen Wiig loses it. The best bits, however, start around the 0:40 mark, and pick up again near the end, where Hader looks like he’s trying so hard to stifle a laugh he may cry.
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This reminds me, I’m going to watch all of the Stefon bits now.
This reminds me, Jimmy Fallon sucked on SNL.
Jimmy Fallon sucks. period
I have a man crush on Bill Hader. There, I said it and I’m not ashamed.
Coming from you, that qualifies as Breakin’ News.
He also writes for South park, which makes me love him more.
It’s Horatio Sanz, ROWLES. But I guess to you, all Hispanics have interchangeable last names, huh?
APOLOGIES.
they all look the same… so why not
He looks like he’s having the funnest stroke ever.
Bill Hader is on my list of nice/polite people. He once held the door at a bakery for my sister and I and then responded in a really sweet and appreciative manner to the group of bakery workers who were yelling his stuff from SNL at him and telling him they loved him.
This is really only funny because of them trying not to laugh. SNL has an amazing way of making funny people not funny nowadays. I should know, I’m really Lindsey Lohan…Wait ..no I’m not…I’m really Rob Riggle….Wait,…No I’m not…
That better not be a Rob Riggle burn.
Why does SNL make their sketches so long? They come up with a somewhat funny joke or character type and execute it, ok cool. Then instead of ending the sketch they just repeat it over and over again until all possible funny is gone.
In Seattle, this is how we know who are the ‘Californicators’. “The 5″ (people here call it I-5, no ‘the’ on the beginnings of roadways), “the 405″, “the 99″, “the 101″…”Pike’s Market” (Pike Place Market), etc.