‘SNL’ Alum Addresses A-Lister’s Controversial Hosting Habit

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Saturday Night Live alum Heidi Gardner weighed in on the debate about whether the show’s stars should “break” during sketches.

Gardner, who was on the show’s cast for eight seasons before she was https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/snl-star-heidi-gardner-finally-admits-she-was-cut-from-the-cast/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/snl-star-heidi-gardner-finally-admits-she-was-cut-from-the-cast/">shockingly axed following the show’s Season 50, said she has no regrets about not being able to hold her laughter in some sketches, despite criticism—and she doesn’t believe https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-snl-host-ryan-gosling-gets-away-with-laughing-too-much/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-snl-host-ryan-gosling-gets-away-with-laughing-too-much/">Ryan Gosling should either.

“I think I, for myself, just really had this self-imposed rule where I was like, ‘You can’t break, you can’t break,’” she told https://ew.com/heidi-gardner-defends-ryan-gosling-breaking-multiple-times-snl-11956529" rel="" target="_self" title="https://ew.com/heidi-gardner-defends-ryan-gosling-breaking-multiple-times-snl-11956529">Entertainment Weekly. “I think I just took it too seriously.

I was like, ‘You can’t break until you really break, or you earn it.’”

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