Today, we look at how making Ashley Padilla break might be a new Saturday Night Live tradition.
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This has been a big breakout season for Ashley Padilla on the Saturday Night Live cast (I’ve written a couple of times about her this year).
Last week, Padilla was part of an unusual sketch that was based around the idea of making her and host Ryan Gosling “break” (break character by laughing) by presenting her with new material that she had not yet seen. I noted at the time that I thought it was fine to do occasional jokes based on making an actor break.
There was another sketch last week that involved Gosling, playing a Cyclops, also seemingly trying to get Padilla, specifically, to break.
Well, in the cold open this week, James Austin Johnson played President Donald Trump, as he often does (Johnson has a famously good Trump impression). At one point, “Trump” breaks the fourth wall and starts to make commentary on the cast members on the stage, and it sure looks like Padilla did not know what Johnson was going to riff about for her…
She IS adorable when she breaks, so I wonder if this will just become a bit of a running gag on the show.
I wouldn’t be against it!
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