Ryan Gosling Breaks Character on ‘SNL’ with Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong in Alien Sketch

Hold the phone, it's a Ryan Gosling bumper from @maryellenmatthewsnyc made exclusively for our Instagram. #SNL A photo posted by Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) on Dec 4, 2015 at 6:26pm PST

The Big Short star Ryan Gosling stopped by Saturday Night Live last night to host the famed NBC series. And while he did an outstanding job, it appears there was one sketch where he just couldn't keep it together. Gosling, alongside Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong, broke character several times with a laugh during a sketch about getting abducted by aliens.

The sketch also included Aidy Bryant and Bobby Moynihan, two operatives working for the Pentagon, interviewing the trio about their recent abduction.

And while both Strong and Gosling appeared to have a pleasant experience, McKinnon had all the opposite.

Which is when Gosling lost it – several times.

The actor hosted Saturday Night Live before the Dec. 23 release of his newest film The Big Short, which also stars The Office's Steve Carell, Brad Pitt and Oscar winner Christian Bale. The film stars the four as "outsiders," according to IMDB, who take on the big banks and predict the mid-2000s budget collapse.

 Still not over everything that went down with those forty grey aliens. #SNL #SNLBackstage #LiveFrom8H

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Breaking is of course nothing new to Saturday Night Live, as there have been many sketches of the past famed for not only the writing and performing, but also for the fact that several actors just couldn't hold it together––largely Jimmy Fallon.

In fact, it was something former player, and current Brooklyn Nine-Nine star, Andy Samberg brought up during the SNL 40 episode alongside his That's My Boy co-star Adam Sandler. Naturally, it was a digital short titled "That's When You Break."