--- description: Most "Saturday Night Live" fans love it when the actors break character and crack up laughing in the middle of scenes title: Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler Sing Ode to Laugh Breaks image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b1447ec5a471f08/69877f6c524fc04412dec802/463529204.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _SNL_ 40: Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler Sing Ode to Laugh Breaks by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 16, 2015 4:52 AM CUT  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL -- Pictured: Andy Samberg walk the red carpet at the SNL 40th Anniversary Special at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, NY on February 15, 2015 -- (Photo by: Jamie McCarthy/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL -- Pictured: Andy Samberg walk the red carpet at the SNL 40th Anniversary Special at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, NY on February 15, 2015 -- (Photo by: Jamie McCarthy/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)Jamie McCarthy/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 16, 2015 4:52 AM CUT There are two types of _Saturday Night Live_ fans: Those who love it when the actors break character and crack up laughing in the middle of scenes, and those who claim to hate it (but probably secretly love it). Breaking character to laugh happened often enough over the years that it made sense to commemorate such episodes on _Saturday Night Live_’s 40th anniversary show. To mark the many, many occasions when cast members cracked each other up, two of the biggest culprits — Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg — teamed up on “That’s When You Break,” an ode to getting the giggles when you’re supposed to be on the job. While the song pointed out that the show’s executive producer Lorne Michaels loved it when the actors started laughing mid-sketch (there may have been _some_ sarcasm there), it also called out some of the worst offenders — specifically, Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz, who seemingly never managed to stay in character. Of course, when you work on a show this funny, it’s just a hazard of the job. > [](https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/567171239647924224) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3710753/snl-40-andy-samberg-adam-sandler-laugh-breaks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3710753/snl-40-andy-samberg-adam-sandler-laugh-breaks/"},"headline":"SNL 40: Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler Sing Ode to Laugh Breaks","datePublished":"2015-02-16T04:52:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T08:12:28.518Z","description":"Mostly it's an ode to Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz","url":"https://time.com/3710753/snl-40-andy-samberg-adam-sandler-laugh-breaks/","keywords":["Television","SNL","Saturday Night Live","jimmy fallon","Adam Sandler","Bill Hader"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b1447ec5a471f08/69877f6c524fc04412dec802/463529204.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b1447ec5a471f08/69877f6c524fc04412dec802/463529204.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"SNL 40th Anniversary Special - 2015","caption":"SNL 40th Anniversary Special - 2015","creditText":"Jamie McCarthy/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3710753/snl-40-andy-samberg-adam-sandler-laugh-breaks/","name":"SNL 40: Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler Sing Ode to Laugh Breaks"}}]}] ```