Overview
- During the classroom sketch Passing Notes, viewers saw the message: “The contents of these notes have been changed since rehearsal.”
- Ryan Gosling, playing Principal Witt, and Ashley Padilla, as Ms. Perry, read the revised material on air and repeatedly broke character.
- The new lines included a ChatGPT makeup joke and a Barbie/Ken nod that pushed Gosling into visible laughter.
- The corpsing spread beyond Passing Notes to Cyclops, where Padilla and others struggled to keep straight faces, and Gosling also cracked in Wedding Tradition.
- This was Gosling’s fourth time hosting while promoting Project Hail Mary, consistent with his acknowledged tendency to laugh during SNL sketches.