“The camera guys are putting money on it.
TheTrainwreckstar recently reflected on how castmateFred Armisenand hostMartin Shorttried to get him to burst out laughing on live TV.
“Martin Short came in with this character that was very, you know, ‘Why hello!
Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Martin Short on ‘Saturday Night Live’.Will Heath/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty; Kyle Dubiel/NBC via Getty
“He knew, because I break very easily, I get very stressed.
So I’m about to lose it at any moment.
And I’m just a very easy laugh.”
Fred Armisen on ‘Saturday Night Live’.Saturday Night Live/YouTube
“And the camera guys are putting money on it.
Everything was going smoothly until the show was live on the air.
Danson asked if the camera crew bet ended up paying out.
“It became kind of a thing.
Like, ‘He didn’t laugh, but he paused.'”
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Hader saw Armisen’s amusement as an opportunity to break the futurePortlandiastar.
“I was really excited.
I was like, ‘I’m going to get him to laugh.'”
But Armisen was one step ahead.
“Which he had never worn in rehearsal.
And so I look at him and I’m like ‘What is going on?’
And I completely break,” Hader remembered.
“That one got me really hard.
I was so proud of myself.
I was like, ‘Oh man, we’re going to get him.’
And when he came out in that jacket, I was like, ‘What is happening?’
Listen to the full conversation between Hader and Danson above.
