Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Seth Meyers, Molly Shannon, Kenan Thompson, and Bowen Yang are PEOPLE's cover stars this week celebrating 50 years of 'Saturday Night Live.' They open up about being a part of the boundary-breaking sketch comedy show, their favorite hosts, classic characters they brought to life and of course, their favorite moments of people breaking on camera.
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00:00Kenan and Cecily would tell me the wrong camera on purpose.
00:03I know.
00:04So, doing Melissa McCarthy's sketch, you remember?
00:07And I'm laughing, and I'm thinking I'm turning away from the camera.
00:10I'm looking right at the camera, laughing, and Chris is like,
00:13Get away from the camera!
00:16And I could not... Melissa was doing it on purpose.
00:18She was like, I'm gonna break you, bitch.
00:20Before we went out, she was like, I'm gonna break you,
00:22and I could not stop laughing.
00:24One of my favorite ones, I can't remember what it was called,
00:26when Wig and Maya were like showcase showgirls.
00:29You love golf, you love the next prize, you didn't win.
00:32And they were driving around like chicken from Chicken Man.
00:35And Bill was the host of this game show,
00:37and he was breaking and they were breaking,
00:39but Vanessa was new, and she was stone-faced the whole time,
00:43and I was like, look at her.
00:45New on the show, and knowing that as the vets sort of go
00:48one after the other, she kept it tight.
00:51I remember, I was gonna say, but it usually means you're very relaxed
00:54if you can laugh, because if I'm really nervous,
00:56there's no way I'm gonna start laughing.
00:58So I think it shows that the performers relax if they can laugh.
01:01We had a thing with Will Ferrell, Brendan Fraser was hosting,
01:04where I accidentally pulled, he was playing like Xena,
01:07Princess Warrior, and I accidentally pulled
01:10Brendan's whole wig off, and hat, by accident.
01:14And I remember having a moment where I was like, wait, can we stop?
01:17And then I realized, oh my God, we can't stop, we're on live television.
01:20This isn't a movie.
01:22And we all started laughing, the entire, we could not stop laughing.
01:26And it was such a great moment, it was so fun.