'SNL': Kenan Thompson Spills On How He Kept His Cool In 'Beavis And Butt-Head' Sketch

The longtime "Saturday Night Live" cast member admits he got "lucky" after losing it during dress rehearsal.

Kenan Thompson revealed how he maintained his composure as fellow “Saturday Night Live” cast members, and host Ryan Gosling, fought back laughter during the “Beavis and Butt-Head” sketch last weekend.

The sketch saw Heidi Gardner as a NewsNation anchor interviewing a professor (played by Thompson) about artificial intelligence before two people who resemble the ’90s cartoon characters (played by Gosling and Mikey Day) prove to be an interruption in the crowd.

The longtime “SNL” cast member, in an interview with Variety, explained that it’s “hit or miss” as he can sometimes hold back laughter while at other times he can’t do it.

“I got lucky on ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ that I cracked so hard at dress rehearsal, I haven’t had a break like that in a while where I was in tears and I couldn’t talk,” Thompson said.

He continued, “It was that funny to me and what I was about to say next was funny to me. And I was frozen. I was literally quivering and then I started to panic. Because I was like, I can’t talk without cry-talking. I don’t want to waste the line. It could throw off everything. It was like, three seconds of just chaos.”