The point of Saturday Night Live is to make people laugh, which is a problem if you’re a member of the cast of Saturday Night Live. While the performers are, by and large, superhuman in their ability to not break character on set, it’s been known to happen, and it's been said that it frustrates producer Lorne Michaels to no end.
SNL vet Kevin Nealon took to Twitter recently to bring up the not entirely uncommon practice of cast members of the show finding something so funny that they can't help but laugh. Nealon was proud to say that he “never” broke character on the show, because he felt it was what he needed to do for both the writers and Lorne Michaels, though there was perhaps one time when he was challenged. Nealon said…
