Former 'SNL' Castmember Kevin Nealon Shades Character Breaks: 'It Doesn't Work for the Sketch'

From Horatio Sanz mercilessly cracking up Jimmy Fallon to giggly guest host Ryan Gosling, breaking character on "Saturday Night Live" has become a bit of a . . . thing. Not to be a Debbie Downer – did anyone get through those alive? – but longtime castmember Kevin Nealon has no respect for the encroaching trend. "I never broke character on SNL," Nealon, a regular from 1985 to 1996, posted Tuesday on X. "I knew how much time the writers put into those scripts. You don't want to be the one who throws it off." I never broke character on SNL. I knew how much time the writers put . . .