Yes, I'm prone to breaking up; but I will say a little of it goes a long way. The audience, as much as they love it, has a tolerance level for it. Particularly if they can tell another actor is trying to get someone else to break up. And Kate McKinnon, who was on last night, in her third alien abduction sketch with RG, is a performer who is a bit on the guilty side when it comes to this. So, the first time RG did the abduction sketch, she was just doing her thing and he lost it. The second time, she tried to get him to break, so it didn't work (maybe because she was working too hard). This time, he started giggling before she even got to her third sentence (speaking of getting to sentences, more on that later). So, she actually held back a little to keep the thing from totally going off the rails, which was kind of the reverse, so that was actually funny in it's own, different way. When you do lose it, it can be really hard to get out of it; because you start anticipating it happening again; and, you start thinking about it have having happend and find yourself in a giggle loop. I think the whole show last night was caught in a giggle loop.
I too had a performance this weekend. Well, sort of. I had a performance on Thursday of last week and today (Sunday). It was a little cabaret-ish show to promote a local theater group:
www.christopherfreidy.com/blog/an-actors-diary-part-1
Long story short. I went to The White Room today. What's The White Room, you ask? I didn't know about it until fairly recently (at least, not in this sort of explanatory way). Well here's a sort video about it: