Known for breaking character and cracking up Saturday Night Live cast members in his previous two hosting stints on the NBC sketch program, Ryan Gosling stayed true to himself, laughing in every skit he was in, much to the delight of the audience, and challenging his co-stars to keep a straight face, even a season vet like Kenan Thompson.
The tone was set in the Cold Open, reuniting Gosling and Kate McKinnon for a third Close Encounters skit, in which host Gosling could not stop laughing as McKinnon was demonstrating how aliens observed Gosling character’s private parts close and personal during their alleged abduction.
The streak continued in The Engagement skit, in which Gosling played a newly engaged man having serious second thoughts about his decision to propose.
Then came Can’t Tonight, in which Gosling and Marcello Hernández were trying to convince their friend (Thompson) to go out with them.
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